Dorothy
Barnett
is founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry
Review and The Rio Review and has taught creative writing
at Austin elementary and high schools, at Austin Community
College, and for the Writers’ League of Texas Touring
Artist Program. A post-graduate James A. Michener Fellow
in Creative Writing with the James A. Michener Center
for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, she
has received numerous awards for teaching, scholarship
and writing, and her work has appeared in small journals,
has won or been recognized in writing contests. She was
selected to appear on KLRU’s
Poetry Aloud series for PBS and has read at many local,
state and national venues. She is a past member of the
Board of Directors for Writers’ League of Texas and Borderlands:
Texas Poetry Review. Currently the Assistant Dean of Communications
and a full-time English and creative writing professor
at Austin Community
College, she writes and is
a free-lance editor.