Background
Trentham, Edwina Ann was born on December 9, 1940 in Hamilton, Bermuda. Came to the United States, 1959. Daughter of Everard Noel Rye Trentham and Mary Winnifred (Dobbin) Payne.
English language educator poet
Trentham, Edwina Ann was born on December 9, 1940 in Hamilton, Bermuda. Came to the United States, 1959. Daughter of Everard Noel Rye Trentham and Mary Winnifred (Dobbin) Payne.
Bachelor in English magna cum laude, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1980. Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, University Massachusetts, 1983.
Professor Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, Connecticut, since 1986. Adjunct instructor Middlesex Community College, Connecticut, 1983-1984, University Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1984-1986. Visiting instructor continuing education Connecticut College, New London, 1986-1989.
Visiting instructor graduate liberal studies program Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1989-2005. Group facilitator Southeastern Connecticut Library. Association, 1987-1990.
Presenter Southern Connecticut State University Women's Studies Conference, 1991, 93, Northeast Regional Conference on English in 2-Year Colleges, 1995. Faculty representative academy affairs council Asnuntuck Community College, 1987-1992, co-chair instructional excellence committee, 1991-2005. Poetry readings include Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, Center for Creative Youth, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Hopkins School, New Haven, Verso Books, New York City.
Editor Freshwater Magazine, since 2000.
Counselor New Haven Rape Crisis Center, 1973-1975. Member Yeats Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Brian Berkeley Burland, July 7, 1962 (divorced June 1975). 1 child, Benjamin De Lisle Burland. Married Gregory Coleman, March 16, 1999.