Pettit, Rhonda S(ue)

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PETTIT, Rhonda S(ue)

PETTIT, Rhonda S(ue). American, b. 1955. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Journalist with Hi-Pro Review, Georgetown News & Times, and Daily Enterprise, between 1977 and 1979; Kentucky Energy Cabinet Laboratory, publications manager and editor, 1979-88; Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, lecturer in English, 1996-98, cocoordinator of Awakenings Café faculty-student reading series, 1997-98; University of Cincinnati, Raymond Walters College, Cincinnati, OH, assistant professor of English, 1998-. University of Cincinnati, adjunct professor, prior to 1998; Xavier University, adjunct professor, 1997; Art Academy of Cincinnati, adjunct professor, 1997. Participant in poetry workshops and children's poetry writing workshops; judge of writing competitions; gives readings from her works. Publications: Joy Harjo, 1998; A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction, 2000. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of poetry, articles, and reviews to periodicals. Address: Department of English and Communication, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati, 9555 Plainfield Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]