F. Ethan Fischer (304) 876-5070 Office

Post Office Box 1082 (304) 876-5220 Secty.

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425 ffischer@shepherd.edu

EDUCATION

Cornell University --- Engineering

University of Pittsburgh --- B.A., Cum Laude, major English

University of Michigan Law School --- Juris Doctor

West Virginia University & St. Mary’s College --- (Various)

TEACHING-EDITING

* Teach English literature and composition at Shepherd College and at Frederick Community College. Have also taught graduate courses at National-Louis University.

* Am senior editor of Antietam Review, prizewinning national journal of the arts.

* Have conducted numerous writing lecture-workshops on behalf of West Virginia Writers, the Arts & Humanities Alliance, Jefferson County Schools, the American Association of University Women, VA Hospital program, Boarman Arts Center, & others.

* Have served as mentor in dramatic writing at Shepherd and as Skilled Scholar at Frederick Community College; have served also as judge of regional writing competitions.

* For many summers, have taught Poetry for Children out of doors in local parks; said programs have led to radio broadcasts by the young poets, with intimations of immortality.

WRITING PLUS

* As senior editor of Antietam Review, produce said journal, conduct interviews. Advise & contribute to Shepherd arts journal Sans Merci, and have served as Arts & Culture editor of the quarterly Mountain Pathways. Collaborated on novels The Turning & Mystic Uncle.

* Honored by inclusion in WILD, SWEET NOTES: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950-1999; FEF’s new book will soon be published by The Bunny & Crocodile Press.

* Contributed Oxford Encyclopedia entry on Delmore Schwartz; serve as theater critic for Shepherdstown Chronicle; was columnist for Jefferson Spirit Advocate; created popular mystery series; curated poetry exhibition at Boarman Arts Center, with published catalogue.

* Broadcast my plays and poetry (Rumsey Radio Hour), some by satellite, as producer-writer for Shepherdstown Radio Company, whose programs aired in eight states--”Readers’ Theater of the Air”--Collaborated with Shepherd College’s new/old medieval drama troupe, The Rude Mechanicals. Performed poetry & prose with the band Tribal Jazz.

<> Ethan Fischer’s work appears in the following publications among others:

Potomac Review; Dickinsonian; WPFW Anthology (next to Ferlinghetti); Antietam Review; A Public Hanging; Mountain Pathways; Tuscarora Review; Ruby; Free State (anth.); WV Magazine; Virginia Country; The Pembroke Magazine -