JEFF BARNET, M.A., M.F.A., has worked as a writer, teacher, and editor for 20 years. He was managing editor for the online magazine Frontera NorteSur and wrote analytical news reports about border issues. He was also news editor and business editor for the Las Cruces Bulletin, a weekly newspaper with a readership of 50,000.

Jeff taught writing at the college level for ten years at New Mexico State University and the University of Arizona, including courses on business and technical writing. He won four writing awards from three universities and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Special Training: One year in the Preceptorship & Colloquium on the Teaching of Writing.
December 1993. 4.0 GPA.

Master of Arts in English, New Mexico State University.
Special Training: Nine hours in Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing.
December 1990. 4.0 GPA. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
May 1985. 3.8 GPA. Magna Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

K-8 Teaching Licensure, New Mexico State University, Graduate School of Education.
Special Training: Six hours in the Instruction of Reading.
August 1999. 4.0 GPA.
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WRITING/EDITING EXPERIENCE

Writer-Editor, Barney’s House of Corrections, Las Cruces.
1989-present.
□ Owner of entrepreneurial business founded in 1989 to edit legal documents.
□ Original texts written for NMSU Dept. of Art, Antonio Lujan & Associates, others.

Sportswriter, Associated Press, Albuquerque Bureau.
2007-08 NCAA Men’s Basketball season.
□ Wrote and filed reports on NMSU basketball for national distribution to ESPN.com, SportingNews.com, other sites.

Writer-Fundraiser, Los Consagrados, Acapulco, Mexico.
August 2006–July 2007.
□ Wrote and developed fundraising materials to help sustain Mexico-based religious order.
□ Wrote and edited content for magazine-style Web site.

Reporter-Business Editor, Las Cruces Bulletin, weekly newspaper with 20,000 circulation.
February 2003-March 2005.
□ Wrote, edited and helped design content for new Business section.
□ Developed “Changing Las Cruces” series in consultation with Editor-In-Chief.
□ Covered city and county politics, business, and breaking news.

Managing Editor-News Writer, Frontera NorteSur, monthly Internet news magazine.
July 1997-August 1998. January-August 2000.
□ Provided the most comprehensive coverage of the narcoguerra of 1997-98 in English.
□ Wrote analytical news reports on issues facing Cd. Juárez and the U.S.-Mexico border.
□ Translated news reports and other documents from Spanish into English.

Managing Editor-Fundraiser, Sonora Review, University of Arizona.
August 1991-August 1993.
□ Wrote successful state and local grants that funded magazine operations.
□ Wrote and developed fundraising materials that more than doubled subscribers and donors.
□ Risk Taking Award for Grant Writing, Tucson-Pima Arts Council.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Middle School Teacher, Holy Cross School, Las Cruces.
August 2005-May 2006.
□ Designed curriculum for three grade levels, 6th through 8th.
□ Named Teacher of the Month and Character Counts Teacher of the Year.

Adjunct Instructor of Developmental English, Doña Ana Community College.
Eleven semesters between August 1994 and December 2003.
□ Developed original curriculum to help students handle writer’s block and writing anxiety.
□ Taught English 110, English 111 and Math 114.

College Liaison, Connecting Point Information Technology Training Practicum,
Duluth, Minnesota.
December 2001-December 2002.
□ Designed comprehensive assessment system in cooperation with instructors.
□ Initiated diagnostic assessment, notebook-surrogate assessment, and portfolio assessment.

Regents Scholars Creative Writing Faculty, New Mexico State University.
July 1996.
□ Designed intensive course based on archetypes, poetic and plot forms, dialog notebooks.
□ Supervised student-led initiative to organize a public reading and write new curriculum.

Adjunct Instructor of English, New Mexico State University Dept. of English.
August 1994-July 1996. January-May 1991.
□ Introduced problem-based curriculum to 200-level business and technical writing classes.
□ Included student-team evaluations of other teams into grading process.
□ Taught English 203, Business Writing, and English 218, Technical Writing.

Graduate Assistant Teacher, University of Arizona Dept. of English.
August 1991-December 1993.
□ Developed protocol for narrative essay that was used in UA Composition text for a decade.
□ Taught two-course Freshman Composition sequence and 200-level Creative Writing.
□ Presented original research on teaching of argumentation to UA English Faculty.

Graduate Assistant Teacher, New Mexico State University Dept. of English.
August 1988-December 1990.
□ Developed Honors Composition course, in addition to teaching developmental courses.
□ Presented original research into the teaching of writing to three Faculty assemblies.
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SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS

Federal, State and Private Foundation Grants and Reports, Various Organizations: Caring Bridge, a program of the Bridge Ministries, Las Cruces, 2009; Colonias Development Council, Las Cruces, 2008; Sonora Review, Tucson, 1991-1993.

NMSU Basketball reports, ESPN.com, SportingNews.com, other national sites, 2007-08

Fundraising and Capital Campaign Materials: Los Consagrados, Mexico, 2006-07; Sonora Review, Tucson, 1991-1993.

The South Valley Connector, newsletter for Antonio Lujan & Associates, April-August 2005.

Breaking News, Cover Stories and Features, Las Cruces Bulletin, February 2003-March 2005.

“Las Cruces Weed & Seed Forms Multiple Partnerships to Create Dynamic Community,” In-Sites Magazine (U.S. Department of Justice).
Volume 11, Number 2. Summer/Fall 2003. Available at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/pub/pdf/insites_smrfall03.txt

Information Technology Education: Principles and Practices, a report for the faculty of Connecting Point, Company Documents, August 2000, revised April 2002.

Border Studies Curriculum, 7-12, Frontera NorteSur, nmsu.edu/~frontera, August 2000, and reprinted on several educational Web sites.

Dialogues of Irony: Humor and Terror in Contemporary Art.
News releases, poster text, public relations materials. NMSU Dept. of Art, 1995-96.

Windigo (short story). Crescent Review, literary magazine published in North Carolina. Fall 1990.
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HONORS AND AWARDS

Character Counts Teacher of the Year Award, Holy Cross School, 2006.
Writer-in-the-Schools, Border Book Festival Emerging Voices Program, 1997-98.
Risk Taking Award for Grant Writing, Tucson Arts Council, 1993.
Torrance Award for Fiction Writing, University of Arizona, 1992.
Frank Waters Fellowship for Writing, NMSU, 1990.
Emerson Award for Critical Writing, NMSU, 1989.
J. Kerker Quinn Award for Fiction Wrtiting, University of Illinois, 1985.

REFERENCES available upon request.