Curriculum Vitae

Lynn Salsi
3103 Henderson Road
Greensboro, NC 27410

Phone: 336 547-9315
Cell: 336 655 2517
www.lsalsi.com
Email

Education:

  • M.A. Creative Writing – Seton Hill University
  • B.A. Journalism – University of South Carolina
  • Masters classes in storytelling (two summer sessions) East Tennessee State University

Teaching:

  • 1992-2000 - Drama Educator (instructor, director, playwright) – NC Youth Touring Theater
  • Directed special performances in New York City (1994), Washington, D.C. (1995), London, England, Portsmouth, England, Edinburgh, Scotland (1996)
  • 1995 - Gloucester, England - three day drama educator exchange
  • 2000 – present - Developed and instructed teacher re-certification courses in reading across the curriculum, writing across the curriculum, and North Carolina history for Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, Greensboro, and High Point, NC campuses
  • 2002 – 2004 - Developed and instructed teacher re-certification courses in reading across the curriculum for Randolph Community College, Asheboro, NC
  • 2007 – present Adjunct classroom and on-line English instructor (freshman English composition and technical English), Guilford Technical Community College

College English Courses Taught:
Freshman English composition, technical writing, creative writing, literature

On-line instructor- English composition

Completed training - Moodle I, MoodleII 

Book Awards, Honors/Grants:

  • Nomination Mayflower Award (NC Literary and Historical Society) - 2001
  • Nomination Pulitzer Prize, 2008 for The Life and Times of Ray Hicks
  • Bill Smith Award, 2002, for newspaper feature published in Greensboro News and Record
  • 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards
  • 2001 - American Library Association Notable Book Award
  • 2001 – North Carolina Historian of the Year – NC Society of Historians
  • 2003 – Central Piedmont Regional Artist Grant
  • 2003 – Anne Izard Storytelling Award for book, The Jack Tales
  • 2003 – present – member of the speaker’s forum for the NC Humanities Council
  • 2004, 2008 – Bill Smith Multi-media Award for storytelling (NC Society of Historians)
  • 2007 – included in North Carolina Touring Artists Directory
  • 2008 -  Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award
  • 2008 -  D.T.Smithwick Newspaper and Magazine Article Award - Our State magazine

Books Forthcoming:

  • Jack and the Dragon (children’s picture book) English and Spanish (2009)
  • Women in the Path of Sherman’s Army (adult non-fiction) 2009
  • Appalachian Jack Tales (folklore collection) 2009
  • Terror from the Sky (middle grade World War II historical fiction) 2010

Books Published:

  • The Life and Times of Ray Hicks, Keeper of the Jack Tales, University of Tennessee Press, 2008 - biography
  • Firefight on Vietnam Brown Water, Forza Renea Editions, 2008 – young adult novel
  • Appalachian Jack Tales, Told by Hicks, Harmon, and Ward Families, Forza Renea Editions, 2008 – story collection
  • Voices of the North Carolina Mountains, The History Press, 2007 – essay collection
  • Greensboro Then and Now, Arcadia Publishing, 2007 – pictorial history
  • Young Ray Hicks Learns the Jack Tales, Forza Renea Junior, 2005 – middle grade novel
  • The North Carolina Imagination Box, Montville Press, 2004 – teacher supplement/guide
  • Portsmouth Island Outer Banks Treasure, Montville Press, 2004 – nonfiction history
  • Columbia, SC, A Southern Capital, Arcadia Publishing, 2003 – nonfiction history
  • Guilford County, Heart of the Piedmont, Arcadia Publishing, 2002 – nonfiction history
  • Images of Craven County, Arcadia Publishing, 2001 – pictorial history
  • Voices of the Crystal Coast, Arcadia Publishing, 2000 – essay collection
  • The Jack Tales, Callaway Editions (for Simon and Schuster) 2000, full-color coffee table book
  • Images of Carteret County, Arcadia Publishing, 1999 – pictorial history

Co-author:

  • The History of North Carolina State University, Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Audio:

  • Producer, “Songs from an Appalachian Childhood,”performer Glenn Bolick, 2000
  • Co-producer, "Ray Hicks' 75th Birthday Storytelling Celebration," 1997

Editing:

  • Portsmouth Island Short Stories by Dot Willis, pub. 2004
  • If This Ain’t True, Grits Ain’t Groceries by Glenn Bolick, pub. 2007
  • Appalachian Cookin' Big Eatin' by Amy Michels, forthcoming 2009

Lectures and Workshop Presentations (approximately 12 per year) most recent listed:

  • University of NC at Greensboro (writing workshop speaker), May 2008, “How Real Life Affects Fiction”
  • Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, June 2008, “How Real Life Affects Fiction”
  • Macon County Public Library, Franklin, NC, May 2008, “Across North Carolina”
  • Beaufort Historical Society, Beaufort, NC, July 2008, “The Crystal Coast”
  • Alleghany County Public Library, August 2008, “The Appalachian Story Quilt”
  • The North Carolina Experience, Broadfoot’s of Wendell, NC, September 2008
  • The Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN, (panel member) October 2008
  • Readings, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks, Celebrating the 21 County Read, December 2008, Asheville, NC
  • Two workshops - presenter, "How to Turn Real Life into Fiction," "The Jack Tales - A Bridge from Traditional Tales to Contemporary Writing," Two-Year College Association Regional Conference, February 2009 (forthcoming)
  • Keynote Speaker- District VFW Convention, Deer Park, Washington, April 11, 2009 (forthcoming)
  • Presenter - North Carolina Young Authors Conference - NC Reading Association, Raleigh, NC, April 25, 2009 (forthcoming) 
  • SCBWI of the Carolinas - All day workshop with illustrator, James Young, May 2, 2009 (forthcoming) 

Affiliations:

  • Author’s Guild
  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • TYCA – Two-Year College Association
  • North Carolina Conference of English Instructors
  • International Reading Association
  • Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
  • North Carolina Society of Historians
  • Appalachian Writers Association
  • Military Writers Society of America
  • North Carolina Writers Network

Other:

          Essays included in forthcoming edition of Evelyn Woods Speed Reading course.

          Published 10 plays for children including adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland”–30 performances           “The Tailor of Gloucester” – 20 performances.

Professional Development (most recent):

  • Faculty-In-Training (certificate) Guilford Technical Community College (9 month program), 2007 - 2008
  • SCBWI national conference, New York – Feb. 2008
  • TYCA workshops at regional TYCA conference, Louisville, KY, Feb. 2008