User:Chigamez/sandbox/David Koehn

David Koehn is an American poet, university professor and technology entrepreneur.

Education

 * Bachelor’s Degree in Creative and Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University; 1987-1990. He studied abroad for one year in Heidelberg, Germany while he was at Carnegie Mellon.
 * Middlebury College’s Breadloaf School of English; Annenburg Fellow, BSE, 1996-1997
 * MA in Education from the University of Alaska
 * MA in English from the University of Florida

Career
He taught in several universities and colleges. 7 schools in Japan, on the northern island of Hokkeido, at the Akaigawa region.
 * Eastern Oregon State College- Adjunct Professor; 1993-1994
 * University of Alaska - Artic Sivunmun Ilisagvik College- Adjunct Professor; 1995-1996
 * Japan - part of teacher exchange program that taught English - May 1996 - June 1996.
 * University of Florida - Instructor; 1990 - 1992
 * San Francisco State University; 1999 - 2000

He taught in Blue Mountain Community College. Koehn also taught High School in Alaska, at Barrow and Bethel region. He was a member of the Breadloaf Teacher Network wherein he was awarded an Annenberg Fellowship at Middlebury College’s Breadloaf School of English.

David worked for Oracle, where he led the team of the Learn Cloud as part of the company’s HCM Cloud Suite and Cloud Architecture. Koehn also led the analytics efforts and social learning for Saba Cloud. Koehn is currently the SVP of Product Management of D2L.

Published Works

 * Coil, a chapbook of poems
 * Tunic, a letter press chapbook of translations of Catullus
 * Twine, a full length collection of poems
 * Compendiun, Donald Justice’s thoughts on prosody - edited the book
 * Scatterplot, a chapbook of poetry

Book Awards

 * Winner of the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize for TWINE.
 * Winner of the 1998 Permafrost Poetry Chapbook Contest, University of Alaska, Fairbanks for COIL