Seattle Reading Council

Teachers as Writers II: Exploring Writing from the Inside Out

Featured Presenter for 2008-2009

Chick Chickadel



Carmine F. (Chick) Chickadel

Carmine F. Chickadel was a huge hit in our first Teachers as Writers series in 2007-2008! Chick has been an educator for over 35 years on the East Coast and the Northwest. Serving in independent schools, he has held the positions of department chair, dean, associate head and co-director.  Presently he is Associate Head of the Upper Division of The Evergreen School in Shoreline, Washington. He is also the co-founder with writer Frances McCue of The Hugo Teaching Studios, a venue for writers to become reflective, adept and creative teachers of writing. He has a BA from the University of Delaware and his MA from the University of Montana College of Fine Arts. He has done a post graduate NEH fellowship in modern poetry at  Bryn Mawr College. He is also the author of five books of images and poems with artist Dennis Evans. Their latest work is The Canticle of Hours. He has published in The Paris Review, Prosodia, Philadelphia Poets and other journals. In January, 2007, he co-founded Ravenna Solutions, LLC which is an educational software company that specializes in applications for narrative assessment of students.