BA English, Humboldt State University: MAT, Teaching of English, University of Alaska Juneau.

B.A., Colgate University, concentration in Political Science with a minor concentration Creative Writing, M.F.A., University of Alaska Fairbanks, concentration in Non-fiction Creative Writing.

BA, English, University of Alaska Anchorage; MA, English, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

BA, Spanish with focus on teaching, University of Alaska Fairbanks, MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

BA English and History, Wake Forest University, NC; MA English, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Secondary Teaching Certificate in Language Arts and History, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 

BA English, Randolph Macon Woman's College; MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alaska Fairbanks; PhD, English University of Tennessee Knoxville.

BA English, Loyola University Chicago; MA Literature, University of Alaska Fairbanks.