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Education
PhD in English, University of Georgia, 2008
Dissertation: "The Ground So Far." Director: Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer, UGA
MFA in Poetry, New Mexico State University, 2003
BA in English, University of Washington, 1997
Academic Honors
Phi Kappa Phi, member 2008–present
Phi Beta Kappa, member 1997–present
National Merit Scholar, 1993–1997
Fellowships
Dissertation Completion Award, University of Georgia, 2007–2008
Books
Urchin to Follow, winner of The National Poetry Review Book Prize, The National Poetry Review Press, 2010
Poems in Anthologies
"Ode to Doubt," Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, C&R Press
Poems in Literary Journals
"Writing Conference," Suisun Valley Review, Spring 2011
"Descant for Clearblue Easy: A Nighttime Desert Drive," Suisun Valley Review, Spring 2011
"Writing by Streetlight," Suisun Valley Review, Spring 2011
"Complaint," Suisun Valley Review, Spring 2011
"Father-Daughter Night at the Arena," Suisun Valley Review, Spring 2011
"In Which the Academic Life Reveals Its Disadvantages," Straylight, Spring 2011
"What to Say," Straylight online, Spring 2011
"Trial of the Oblique Triangle:
Building Permit #78," Verse Daily, May 28, 2010
"Who Also Were Killed," New Orleans Review, Spring 2010
"Evening," Poetry Now, April/May 2010
"Narrative," Poetry Now, April/May 2010
"Trial of the Oblique Triangle: Building Permit #78," Sacramento News & Review, January 7, 2010
"Urchin to Follow," Sacramento News & Review, November 12, 2009
"Guide to Low Standards," The Los Angeles Review, Fall 2009
"Tracking the Woodcutter," Sakura Review, Fall 2009
"Wanted: A New Name for Night Dread," Blue Moon Literary and Art Review, Summer/Fall 2009
"Interview with the Rescue Crew," The Journal, Spring 2009
"Personal," The Journal, Spring 2009
"Stance," Convergence Editors' Choice feature, April 2009
"Road Trip," Convergence Editors' Choice feature, April 2009
"Writing by Streetlight," Convergence Editors' Choice feature, April 2009
"Road Trip," Naugatuck River Review, January 2009
"Epithalamium," Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments, Issue 23, January 2009
"To the Rescue Crew," Redheaded Stepchild, Fall 2008
"Burning Bush in Effigy," Protest Poems, November 2008"Notes on Logistics, Scene 10," Protest Poems, November 2008
"Melatonin Song: The Window," Use These Words, Issue 1, October 2008
"Los Gringos Perdidos en el Desierto de Sonora," Sojourn, 2008
"Midnight, New Year's Eve," The Broome Review, Spring 2008
"Advice," Red Clay Review, Spring 2008
"From My Mouth, Phlox Blossoms," Red Clay Review, Spring 2008
"We Lie Down At Last," Red Clay Review, Spring 2008
"Ode to Doubt," Memorious, Issue 9, January 2008
"The Smithy," Memorious, Issue 9, January 2008
"Possible Song," Court Green, January 2008
"You," Coconut, Issue 10, October 2007
"Ode to the Tune of Frank O'Hara," Coconut, Issue 10, October 2007
"The Facts We Prefer," Coconut, Issue 10, October 2007
"Basta Cosi," Coconut, Issue 10, October 2007
"Notes from a Migration," New Delta Review, Summer 2007/(reprint) Fall 2007
"Neah Bay," Lunarosity, August/September 2007
"Seduction," Lunarosity, August/September 2007
"As Though Leaving Would Cleave Us," Lunarosity, August/September 2007
"What the Evening Requires," Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2005
"You Carry Me," Jabberwock Review, Winter 2005
"Note to Self: Write Erotica," Jabberwock Review, Winter 2005
"Marriage Song in the Desert," Isotope, Fall 2004
"Trust Your Feet," Santa Clara Review, Fall/Winter 2002–2003
"Homecoming Weekend," Sin Fronteras, Fall 2002
"Japanese Garden," Synapse, Spring 1999
"Whistler's White Girl," The TMP Irregular, Spring 1999
Essays in Literary Journals
"Semicolon Slut," Interrobang?!, Fall 2009
"Semicolon Slut," Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Contest Magazine, March 2008
Articles in Academic Journals
"What Bilingual Poets Can Do: Re-visioning English Education for Biliteracy." Coauthored with Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor. English in Education, 42.3 (Fall 2008)
Book Reviews in Literary Journals
"'Our West, Less Place, More Motion': Keith Ekiss's Ecopoetics," in Puerto del Sol, Summer 2011
Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window, by Amy Holman, in The National Poetry Review, 2010
Odalisque in Pieces, Carmen Gimenez Smith, in The Journal, Fall 2010
Temper, Beth Bachmann, in The Georgia Review, Winter 2010
"The Braided Lyric: On Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, by Connie Voisine," in Puerto del Sol 44.1, Spring 2009
Music for Landing Planes By, Éireann Lorsung, in The Georgia Review, Winter 2007
Curious Conduct, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, in Verse (versemag.blogspot.com), Fall 2004
Colorado Review 31.2 (Summer 2004). Special Issue: Writing of the New West, in Verse (versemag.blogspot.com), Fall 2004
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Eric Bogosian, in Faculty Shack, Summer 2004
Apparition Hill, Mary Ruefle, in Puerto Del Sol, Spring 2004
Coming True, Karen McKinnon, in Puerto Del Sol, Spring 2003
Mark My Words: Five Emerging Poets, ed. F. Aragon, in Puerto Del Sol, Spring 2003
Book Reviews in News Outlets
All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, Rebecca Foust, in Sacramento News & Review, September 9, 2010
Online News Coverage for Literary Journals
"California Loves Its Georgia-Affiliated Writers," Georgia Review Blog, February 15, 2010
"Insider Info on Pam Houston's Work in Progress," Georgia Review Blog, November 23, 2009
"Georgia Review Contributor Lori Ostlund Launches Prizewinning Book in San Francisco," Georgia Review Blog, November 17, 2009
Poetry PrizesMatt Clark Poetry Prize, New Delta Review, 2007
The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, Honorable Mention in Poetry, 2005
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Prize, Prizewinner, 2005
Charles M. and Pamela S. Sphar Endowed Scholarship, 2002
Keith Wilson/Joe Somoza Poetry Prize, judged by Jacqueline Osherow, 3rd Prize, 2002
Keith Wilson/Joe Somoza Poetry Prize, judged by Carl Phillips, 3rd Prize, 2001
New Mexico State University Graduate Research and Arts Symposium, 4th Prize, 2001
Creative Nonfiction Prizes
Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Contest, Finalist, 2008
The Mangrove Review/Sanibel Island Writers Conference Award, Honorable Mention, 2007
Interviews for The Georgia Review OnlineRoxane Beth Johnson, Spring 2011
Jim Peterson, Winter 2010
J. Allyn Rosser, Fall 2010
Alice Friman, Summer 2010
Interviews for the Sacramento Poetry Center
Keith Ekiss, Poetry Now, May/June 2011
Rae Gouirand, Poetry Now, January/February 2010
Robin Ekiss, Poetry Now, July/August 2010
Lori Ostlund, Poetry Now, February 2010
Julia B. Levine, Poetry Now, December 2009
Albert Martinez, Poetry Now, October 2009
Andy Jones, Poetry Now, September 2009
Hannah Stein, Poetry Now, July 2009
Lucy Corin, Poetry Now, June 2009
Interviews for Stories on Stage Blog
Naomi Benaron, March 2011
Radio Appearances
Interview with Jeffrey Callison on Insight, Capitol Public Radio, May 28, 2010.
Interviews
Straylight Magazine, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Spring 2011
Suisun Valley Review Magazine, Solano College, Spring 2011
Panels
"Marketing Yourself as a Writer," University of California, Davis, Extension: Arts, Humanities, and Writing Program. Sacramento, CA, March 7, 2011.
Readings
Second Tuesday Poetry Series, Barkin' Dog Grill, Modesto, CA, April 2011
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, December 2010
Los Angeles Review Contributors' Reading, Center Literary Cafe, Healdsburg, CA, November 2010
Natsoulas Gallery, Confluence of Poets Tour, Davis, CA, October 2010
American River College, Confluence of Poets Tour, Sacramento, CA, October 2010
California State University, Sacramento, Confluence of Poets Tour, October, 2010
Solano College, Confluence of Poets Tour, Fairfield, CA, October 2010
Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, Confluence of Poets Tour, Sacramento, CA, October 2010
Folsom Lake College, Confluence of Poets Tour, Sacramento, CA, October 2010
Sacramento City College, Confluence of Poets Tour, October 2010
Poetry Night at Bistro 33, Davis, CA, October 2010
Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA, July 2010
Multicultural Poetry Festival, International House, Davis, CA, July 2010
A Starry Night Poetry Series, Lodi Public Library, CA, June 2010
Center Literary Cafe, Healdsburg, CA, June 2010
Writers in the Garden Series, UC Davis Arboretum, June 2010
The Other Voice Series, Davis, CA May 2010
L.A. Jones's Poetry Salon, Stockton, CA, February 2010
Blue Moon Literary & Art Review at The Avid Reader, Davis, CA, November 2009
Lively Words, Berkeley, CA, August 2009
Sacramento Poetry Center, June 29, 2009
What's New in Poetry Series, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, September 2008
Homecoming Reading series, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, September 2008
The Georgia Review, Athens, GA, April 2008
Vox Reading Series, Athens, GA, January 2008
"Cyborgs and Sinners," Athens, GA, May 2006
Hurricane Katrina Benefit Reading, Vox Reading Series, Athens, GA, October 2005
UGA Maymester Reading Series, Athens, GA, May 2005
APES Reading, Athens, GA, April 2005
Vox Reading Series, Athens, GA, March 2005
Vox Reading Series, Athens, GA, September 2004
Vox Reading Series, Athens, GA, November 2003
Red Mountain Café, Las Cruces, NM, February 2003
La Sociedad Para Las Artes Reading Series,Las Cruces, NM, March 2002
Valentine's Day Reading, Red Mountain Café, Las Cruces, NM, February 2002
Red Mountain Café, Las Cruces, NM, November 2000
Editing Experience
Copyeditor, 2007–present.
University of Georgia Press, David Cowart, Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History
University of Georgia Press, Danielle Cadena Deulen, The Riots
University of Pittsburgh Press, Bradley Paul, The Animals All Are Gathering
University of Georgia Press, Malin Pereira, Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary African American Poets
University of Pittsburgh Press, Thomas P. Miller, The Evolution of College English: Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns
Fordham University Press, Poets of the Italian Diaspora: An Anthology (current project)
Fordham University Press, Jonathan Arac, Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel
University of Georgia Press, Jessica Treadway, Please Come Back to Me
University of Pittsburgh Press, Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, eds., The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
University of Pittsburgh Press, Alicia Ostriker, Book of Seventy
University of Pittsburgh Press, Jane Stanley, The Rhetoric of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement and Access to Higher Education
University of Pittsburgh Press: Charles Harper Webb, Shadow Ball: New and
Selected Poems
University of Georgia Press: Geoffrey Becker, Black Elvis
Fordham University Press: Bruce Rosenstock, Philosophy and the Jewish
Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond
University of Pittsburgh Press: Beth Bachmann, Temper
University of Georgia Press: Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
Fordham University Press: Shane Mackinlay, Interpreting Excess: Jean-Luc
Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics
Fordham University Press: Eric Boynton and Martin Kavka, eds., Saintly Influence:
Texts for Edith Wyschogrod
University of Pittsburgh Press: Russell Edson, See Jack
University of Georgia Press: Sue William Silverman, Fearless Confessions:
A Writer's Guide to Memoir
University of Georgia Press: Barbara Shoup and Margaret Love
Denman, Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors
Share the Creative Process
University of Pittsburgh Press: Sharon Doubiago, Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems
University of Georgia Press: Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter
Developmental Editor, 2007–present. I provide a range of developmental editing services for scholars in the humanities and for writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. References available upon request.
Proofreader, 2008–present. Proofread works of poetry and prose for the University of Pittsburgh Press. References available upon request.
University of Georgia Press, Editorial, Design, and Production Intern, Spring 2008. Assisted with tracking projects, securing image and print permissions, proofreading, index editing, coding manuscripts, and copyediting.
University of Georgia Press, Acquisitions Intern, Fall 2007. Reviewed manuscripts under consideration; wrote project descriptions for acquisitions meetings and reports for the Press' editorial board. Secured print and image permissions for books in production. Prepared launch forms and other internal project-tracking tools.
The Georgia Review, Assistant to the Editors, August 2006–July 2007. Read submissions in poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, and recommended manuscripts for publication. Supervised student workers, coordinated and publicized events, corresponded with authors, copyedited and proofread pages, requested and tracked review copies of books, and assisted with all aspects of magazine production.
Verse, Associate Editor, Fall 2004. Read submissions and recommended manuscripts for publication. Wrote reviews of selected books. Proofed galley pages and assisted with all aspects of magazine production.
Puerto del Sol, Assistant Poetry Editor, 2001–2002. Read and selected submissions, corresponded with authors, designed and managed databases of manuscripts under consideration, copyedited and proofed pages, coordinated volunteer readers and staff, assisted customers at the book fair table at the Associated Writing Programs conference and other events, and wrote book reviews for the magazine.
Puerto del Sol, Associate Poetry and Fiction Editor, 2000, 2002–2003. Read and selected submissions and corresponded with authors.
Synapse, Associate Poetry Editor, 1998–1999. Read and selected submissions, participated in layout of each issue using PageMaker and Photoshop, and performed all steps of magazine production and postproduction, including distribution, coordination of readings, and seeking out advertising and artistic grants.
Literary Contest Judge Experience
Reader, National Poetry Series, 2008–present.
Judge, Quinton Duval Writing Contest, Solano College, 2012
Judge, Keith Wilson/Joe Somoza/Ruth Scott Academy of American Poetry Prizes, 2010.
Judge, 2006–2009 Ethnographic Poetry Award, hosted by The Society for Humanistic Anthropology.
Conferences
Associated Writing Programs 2008, New York. Staffed the book fair table to promote the Creative Writing Program of the University of Georgia.
Associated Writing Programs 2007, Atlanta. Staffed the book fair table for The Georgia Review.
Associated Writing Programs 2002, New Orleans. Presented "Modified Charades: Understanding Abstract and Concrete Language" to the Pedagogy Forum. Staffed the book fair table for Puerto del Sol.
Associated Writing Programs 2001, Palm Springs. Presented "Killing the Inner Editor: Exercises for Getting Started" to the Pedagogy Forum. Staffed the book fair table for Puerto del Sol.
Research, University of Georgia, Fall 2005–Spring 2006
Research Assistant to Dr. Misha Cahnmann-Taylor of the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Assisted Dr. Cahnmann-Taylor with editing (articles and course materials), research, events promotion, and community outreach via coordinating the Pinewood Poetry Project, for which I designed and taught poetry classes for bilingual (Spanish/English) children and adults at the Biblioteca y Centro Educativo de la Communidad, a branch of the Athens Regional Library.
Teaching Awards
Graduate School Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Georgia, 2006.
Teaching Experience, University of California Davis, Extension, 2011-present
Tools of the Writer's Craft (on site), Fall 2011. Course description in development.
Tools of the Writer's Craft (online), Summer 2011. Course description in development.
Poetry Workshop (online), Fall 2011.
Examine the elements that distinguish poetry from prose. Lead
discussion of poems by prominent writers, as well as instructional
prose on poetry. Review received/traditional forms and
open/contemporary forms. Help students improve facility with image,
metaphor, and symbol, as well as their execution of mechanics such as
line breaks, pacing, rhythm, and sound. Provide writing prompts for the
generation of new drafts. Teach students how to productively workshop
each other's drafts, and how to make revisions based on critiques.
Getting
Published: The Business of Creative Writing (on site), Spring 2011. Give students
a tour of the world of publishing and the types of publishers: trade,
scholarly, small press, etc. Review the various markets for book-length
fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, short stories, and personal
essays. Teach students how to write query letters and develop systems
for tracking submissions.
Teaching Experience, University of Georgia, 2003–2006
Program Director and Instructor, English 4800, Advanced Creative Writing in Costa Rica, Maymester 2006. This traveling poetry class, taught as a combination seminar/workshop, engaged the writing process by way of assigned readings, class discussions, and the impetus of the unique environment of Costa Rica. The course was based at UGA's Ecolodge San Luis and Research Station in the Monteverde area, with excursions to Arenal Volcano and the Pacific coast. I designed the course, selected course materials, selected excursion locations, planned class activities, led class trips, managed class finances while in Costa Rica, planned and led class sessions, met with students about work in progress, and responded to student work. Course materials available upon request.
Teaching Assistant to Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer, English 4800/Advanced Creative Writing, Spring 2006. Multigenre (poetry, creative nonfiction, and microfiction) course in creative writing. Assisted Professor Cofer with selecting course materials, planning class sessions, and responding to student work.
English 3800, Introduction to Creative Writing. Designed and taught a seminar/workshop in poetry and creative nonfiction. Course materials available upon request.
English 1101, Composition. In addition to designing daily lesson plans, meeting with students to discuss work in progress, and responding to student papers, instructed students in the use of EMMA (Electronic Management and Markup Application, a shared online writing, peer review, and revision environment). Course materials available upon request.
Committees, University of Georgia
Textbook Selection Committee, Spring 2004.
Writer in the Schools Experience
La Sociedad Para Los Artes "Writers in the Schools" program, Las Cruces, NM, Spring 2003. Visited three different elementary school classrooms, grades 3–5, for one hour per day for one week each. Designed a curriculum appropriate for each age group, and packaged this curriculum so that others at NMSU could use it for their own teaching.
Teaching Experience, New Mexico State University, 2000–2003
English 220, Imaginative Writing. Designed and taught a three-genre introductory workshop course in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Course materials available upon request.
English 211, Writing for the Social Sciences and Humanities: Poetic Landscapes. Proposed, designed and taught this sophomore composition class, wherein students developed analytical writing skills through reading and writing about contemporary poetry selections united by the theme of landscape imagery. Course materials available upon request.
English 111, Introduction to Composition. Planned lessons, met with students to discuss work in progress, and responded to student papers. Course materials available upon request.
Tutoring Experience, New Mexico State University
Writing Center Consultant, Fall 2000, Summer 2001. Worked with students studying a variety of fields on a variety of writing projects, from composition assignments to doctoral dissertations.
Freshman Orientations, Summer 2001. Assisted incoming freshmen with course selection and registration.
Events Coordination
C. J. Sage and J. P. Dancing Bear at the Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA, September 13, 2010. Invited readers; organized and publicized the reading.
Guest-Host for Stories on Stage at the Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA, June 2010. Coordinated writers, performers, and event staff, and introduced readers at the event.
Lori Ostlund and Robin Ekiss at the Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA, February 2010. Invited readers, organized and publicized the reading, and introduced readers at the event.
Vox Reading Series, in association with the UGA Creative Writing Program, Athens, GA, February 2007. Invited readers, organized and publicized the reading, and introduced readers at the event.
Vox Reading Series, in association with the UGA Creative Writing Program, Athens, GA, February 2005. Invited readers, organized and publicized the reading, and introduced readers at the event.
Georgia Writers' Symposium at UGA, Athens, GA, Spring 2004. Assisted with publicity and physical arrangements.
La Sociedad Para Los Artes Reading Series at NMSU, Las Cruces, NM, Spring 2003. Publicized readings, assisted with physical arrangements at each reading, and introduced visiting writers.
Service
Authors on the Move, March 2011. Featured writer at gala benefit to support the Sacramento Public Library Foundation.
Stories on Stage staff volunteer, 2010–present. Assist with publicity, collect donations at readings, assist with setup and cleanup.
Stories on Stage, Anniversary Event, Sacramento, CA, January 2011. Guest host. Assisted with publicity, assisted with physical arrangements, and introduced the writers and actors.
Benefit for Autism, Sacramento, CA, January 2011. Guest host. Reading benefits UC Davis MIND Institute and Odyssey Learning Center. Assisted with physical arrangements and introduced the featured writers.
Share Our Strength benefit reading, Las Cruces, NM, 2001–2003. Assisted with publicity and fundraising.
Marathon reading to benefit the English Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, November 2001. Solicited donations and read at the event.
Visiting poet, Mark Twain Elementary School, Kirkland, WA, Spring 2000. Volunteered to work with students in two classrooms.
References
Available upon request.