After years of teaching American Lit. and composition at Ohio State University, I retired to Vermont. Here I teach tai chi, write (fiction, memoir/essay, poetry), garden, and try to love the winter snows.

"Rubber Man." Memoir essay forthcoming in Life after Death: Stories of Surviving Ex-Spouses, ed. Peggy Sapphire.
"Poems for Tai Chi Players. Chapbook forthcoming from Kattywompus Press.
"St. Anne's Promises." Memoir/essay. Muse & Stone, Winter, 2011.
African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture (editor; introduction and one essay). Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2007; (paperback edition 2009).
Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film (editor; introduction). N.Y.: Routledge, 2004.
“Romanced by Cookbooks.” Gastronomica 4(2): Spring 2004, 35-42.
The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, reprint of 1958 edition (concept editor; introduction). Beacon Press, 2000.
Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997 (editor; introduction and one essay).
Epistolary Responses: The Letter in 20th-Century American Fiction and Criticism. University of Alabama Press, 1996 (monograph).
“Reading Lessons.” Quilt Culture: Essays on the Quilt as Metaphor. Eds. Cheryl Torsney and Judy Elsley. Univ. of Missouri Press, 1994.

Happy to exchange comments on work-in-progress.