I have taught writing, rhetoric, and dark academia as a faculty member, graduate TA, and writing center tutor at an assortment of colleges and universities for almost thirty years.
I have also served in administrative positions while co-authoring the award-winning first-year writing textbook Read, Reason, Write: An Argument Text and Reader published by McGraw-Hill.
Along the way, I co-authored Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement now published by Bloomsbury and co-edited Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education published by Apprentice House Press. My work has also been featured in academic journals and edited collections.
Outside the academy I have worked as a technical writer for the federal government and as an independent contractor. If you’re interested in learning more, visit my About page.
In 2024, I began writing fiction, which was as much of a surprise to me as it was to everyone else. But the story had to be told; it would not be silent.
Non-Fiction
Read, Reason, Write
An Argument Text and Reader, 13e
By Dorothy U. Seyler and Allen Brizee
Read, Reason, Write shows students how reading, argument, research, and analysis are interrelated and how these skills combine to develop each student's critical-thinking ability.
Fourteenth edition due out in January 2027.
Fiction
The Mage’s Mantra
A Question of Faith Book I
by H. A. Brizee
The Mage’s Mantra is an adult urban fantasy/dark academia novel about Faith Anne Schuler, a young woman struggling to solve the mystery of her friend’s death and unravel the divine secrets of her world.
"A dark academia book like you’ve never read.” - M. L. Rio, second round beta reader and author of If We Were Villains and Night Shift
Beta reading complete. Working with a developmental editor now.
Read more about The Mage’s Mantra and the Question of Faith trilogy here.
Banner Photo Credit: Gladstone Library, 12-9-2019, Michael D. Beckwith