•    Excellent writer, editor, and photographer with professional manner.
     •    Adaptable, quick to learn new skills.  Broad experience in a range of fields.
     •    Self-starter, accustomed to working independently.  Also work well in a team.
     •    Adept with computer.  Have created and maintained web-pages.

• "Massey Metals: I Don't Just Bury It," CROSSTIMBERS, Fall 2002.
• Several stories written for USAO public relations dept. release (one submitted by PR director won second place in state competition for feature writing).
• "Find What You Need at the Swap Meet," CROSSTIMBERS, Spring 2002.
• "The Real American Cow-Punch," CROSSTIMBERS, Fall 2001.
• "Bud Exendine: An Unlikely Character," CROSSTIMBERS, Spring 2001.
• "The Green Limousine: How We Got By Before SUVs," Exquisite Corpse, Issue 7, Fall 2000.
• CB's Stuff: Creative Nonfiction, web-site of collected stories, begun in 1998. www.ionet.net/~cbb
• A Picture of Harold and Other Real People, master's thesis, University of Oklahoma library, 2000.
• "Thinking It Through," Windmill, V. 28 # 1, 1998.
• "Muleskinner Blues," Small Farmer's Journal, Vol 20 # 2, Spring 1996.
• "A Leaf in the Wind," Portals, V. 1, # 1, 1995.

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, August 2003.
• Master of Arts, English: Creative Writing, University of Oklahoma (OU), May 2000.
• Bachelor of Arts, English, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO), August 1997, Summa Cum Laude.

• Award of Excellence (2nd place) in Feature Writing (among 400 entries), 2002 Oklahoma College Public Relations Association competition.
• Serving as editor of fiction and features for the journal, CROSSTIMBERS.
• Honored as "exceptional professor" by Alpha Phi Omega, Delta Beta Chapter, OU, Nov. 1999.
• Worked with writer William Kittredge at "Writing Your Self: Creative Nonfiction and the Personal Essay," Recursos Writing Workshop, Santa Fe, N.M., Oct. 1999.
• Studied with Jerry Bledsoe at "Writing Creative Nonfiction," Wildacres Writing Workshop, Little Switzerland, N.C., July 1999.
• Presented creative work, "A Picture of Harold," at Student Association of Graduate English Studies (SAGES) Conference, "Land, Literature, and Identity: Literary Regionalism," OU, Feb. 1999.
• Worked with writer Mary Anne Maier at "Creative Nonfiction" workshop, Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute, Stillwater, Ok., Oct. 1998.
• Served as panel moderator, USAO Writing Symposium, Chickasha, Ok., Mar. 1998.
• Assisted with USAO Writing Symposium, Chickasha, Ok., Mar. 1997, Mar. 1996.
• Awarded 1^st prize in USAO English Dept.'s first annual Short Story Contest, Feb. 1997.
• Admitted into Hypatia, USAO's honor society, Nov. 1996.
• Won 1^st prize in USAO English Dept.'s first annual Poetry Contest, Feb. 1996.
• Awarded Regents' Scholarship, USAO.

• Teaching freshman comp. as adjunct instructor, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Fall 2003.
• Working as stagehand for Local 112 of the International Alliance of Stage and Theatrical Employees (IATSE), Oklahoma City. From 1996 – present.
• Writing as stringer for USAO PR dept.
• Editing and critique-ing manuscripts by mail (currently $3.00/page).
• Taught freshman comp. as adjunct instructor, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Spring 2001.
• Taught freshman writing courses as Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English, University of Oklkahoma. (Comp. I in fall, Comp II in spring). Aug. 1997– May 2000.
• Wrote for USAO newspaper, The Trend. 1997.
• Farmed and ranched 1,000-acre operation – profitably! in the 1980s and '90s – Anadarko, Ok. 1979-1995.