EDUCATION:

M.F.A. Creative Writing

Florida International University

M.F.A. Thesis: Saturn Returns: My Impending Adulthood

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GPA: 3.99

M.A. Professional Writing

Carnegie Mellon University

2004-2005

GPA: 3.72

B. A. Carnegie Mellon University

Creative writing and philosophy double major

Graduated with college and university honors

2000-2004

GPA: 3.63

TEACHING & ACADEMIC

EXPERIENCE

WRITING & EDITING EXPERIENCE:

EDITING & PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, University of Southern Mississippi

Six sections freshman composition, both online and in-person

Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator, Center for Excellence in Writing,

Florida International University

Graduate Writing Consultant, Florida International University

Writing Assistant, Introduction to Hospitality Management, Florida

International University

Paper Grader, Intro to Accounting, Florida International University

Nonfiction Instructor, Lip Service Institute

“Putting Yourself Down on the Page: Self-Deprecation in Nonfiction”

Online Writing Lab Tutor, Florida International University

Technical Writer, Noble Desktop

Freelance Writer and Copy Editor

Execute freelance writing and editing projects for a variety of local,

national, and international clients, such as the Pentagon, Nike

Swim Camp, Potomac College, and PPG Paints.

Freelance Writer and Editor, Negley Design

Freelance Writer, Fargo Design Company

Freelance Content Writer, The Technology Collaborative

Assistant Nonfiction Editor, The Mississippi Review

Nonfiction Editor, Sliver of Stone Magazine

Editor, Gulf Stream Magazine

Business editor (20006-2007); nonfiction editor (2007-2008);

managing editor (2008-2009)

Internship, Carnegie Mellon University Poetry Press

Editorial Assistant, Creative Nonfiction

2019-2020

2018-2019

2009-2019

2017

2010-2015

2013

2007

2021-Present

2009-Present

2010- 2012

2006 -2009

2008

2019-2020

2009-2011

2006 -2009

2004 -2005

2005

HONORS:

PUBLIC READINGS:

CONFERENCES:

Pushcart Prize nomination – Lost Pilots - Poetry - 2022

Mississippi Individual Artists Grant Recipient - Nonfiction - 2021

Finalist, The Hunger, Winter Poetry Contest – 2020

Semi-Finalist, Grist, Pro-Forma Poetry Contest - 2020

Runner-up, poetry award – University of Southern Mississippi Center for

Writers - 2019

AWP Intro Journals Project – Nonfiction Nomination – University of

Southern Mississippi Center for Writers - 2019

Pushcart Prize Nomination – Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review - 2019

Winner, Cover Letter Contest, Orca: A Literary Review - 2019

Silver Award in Florida Nonfiction - Florida Book Awards – In Season:

Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places in Between – University of

Florida Press – 2018

Pushcart Prize Nomination – Inscape Journal – 2017

Editor’s Choice Award – Inscape Journal – 2017

Reprint Award – Sequestrum – Honorable Mention – 2015

Notable, Best American Essays – 2012 & 2014

Winner, Flash Fiction Friday Contest, The Portland Review – 2013

First Place Winner, Tenth Anniversary, Best of Florida English Contest,

Nonfiction - 2013

Honorable Mention, Poetry Contest, Mason’s Road – 2012

Honorable Mention, Flash Fiction Contest, Gemini Magazine - 2011

Finalist, Wergle Flomp Humor in Poetry Contest – 2011

First Place Graphic Memoir Prize – Memoir(and) – 2010

Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor in Poetry Contest – 2010

Silver Palm Award for Outstanding Graduate Assistantship – Florida

International University - 2009

Winner, Sanibel Island Writers Conference/Mangrove Review Contest in

creative nonfiction – 2009

Runner-up, Florida International University Graduate Award in Poetry –

2007

Pauline B. Adamson Graduate Award in Fiction – 2005

Carnegie Mellon University Press Prize in Fiction – 2003

Dean’s List High Honors Student – 2000-2004

Honorable Mention Academic All-American Swimmer – 2001 & 2002

Sundress Academy for the Arts – Knoxville, TN (2019)

AWP Panel: “What I Found in Florida: Essays from the Sunshine State”

– Tampa, FL (2018)

Flash! Fiction reading - Murder on the Beach – Delray, FL (2018)

How Distant the City Chapbook Launch – Opening Reader for Freesia

McKee (2018)

Chapbook reading - Florida International University (2018)

Chapbook launch & reading – The Cold Side of the Pillow – Stranded Oak

Press – Pittsburgh, PA (2018)

Florida International Alumni Reading – Miami, FL (2018)

Miami Book Fair International: 15 Views of Miami Launch - Miami, FL

(2014)

Life Out Loud – Tampa, FL (2012)

Lip Service Stories Out Loud – Miami, FL (2010)

Orcas Island Artsmith Writers’ Workshop 2015

Scholarship recipient

Workshop with Ana Maria Spagna

Florida International University Writers’ Conference 2013

Manuscript consultation with Steve Almond

Key West Literary Seminar 2012

Scholarship recipient

Workshop with Margaret Atwood

Key West Literary Seminar (2010)

Scholarship recipient

Workshop with Dara Wier

Sanibel Island Writers Conference (2009)

Scholarship and first place Nonfiction Award recipient

Manuscript consultation with Sidney Wade

Florida International University Hutchinson Island Conference (2008)

Manuscript consultations with Marcie Hershman, Peter Meinke,

& Richard Pine

Florida International University Key West Writers Conference (2005)

Manuscript consultation with Madeline Blais

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

English Graduate Organization, University of Southern Mississippi

Member (2019-2020)

Guest lecturer, poetry, Carnegie Mellon University (2019)

Guest lecturer, nonfiction, Carnegie Mellon University (2016)

Carnegie Mellon Varsity Swim Team Member (2000-2004)

Captain - 2003-2004

Former School Record Holder - 200 & 400 freestyle relays

Mortar Board Honors Society Member (2002-2004)

PUBLICATIONS (BY GENRE)

POETRY CHAPBOOKS:

The Cold Side of the Pillow – Stranded Oak Press (1/18)

Bowling in The Bumper Lane – WordTech Press (8/17)

POEMS:

“Alien Abduction Insurance” – Grist (5/22)

“Abstract Confessional” – Lost Pilots (3/22)

“Belligerent Eating of Pasta” – Crosswinds Journal (2020)

“Disclaimer to my Future Husband” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (re-published in feature on mental health) (7/19)

“Unsolicited Advice from a Man at my Gym” – Yemassee (12/19)

“Pith” – The Fiddlehead (4.19)

“Doesn’t Mean Dick” – The Fiddlehead (4.19)

“Football Fantasy” – Politics of Shelter (8/18)

“The Day the Horses Escaped from the Merry-Go-Round” – Poetry South (10/17)

“I Didn’t Not Lick It” – Swamp Ape Review (8/17)

“The Face You Make When You Want Them to Think You’re Paying Attention” – Muse/A Journal (9/17)

“Washed Ashore” – Fixional (7/17)

“Dear Paul McCartney,” – Fixional (7/17)

“When Tuna Helper Needs Help” – Minnesota Review (12/16)

“On the Occasion of Watching an Adult Eat Pudding” – Inscape (12/16)

“You Are Here” – New Mexico Review (4/16)

“101 Sexual Inadequacies” – Uproot Magazine (4/16)

“A Broken Yolk” – Uproot Magazine (4/16);

Inscape (12/16)

“On the Occasion of Having Zero Dollars and Zero Cents in my Bank Account” – Tishman Review (9/15)

“I Dream Someone Stole my Handlebars” – Hartskill Review (12/14)

“Mutually Naked Condition” – Parts of the Whole: Poetry of the Body (11/14)

“The Smile of Oblivion” – Toad the Journal (9/14)

“Dying in Your Thirties” – WomenArts Quarterly (7/14)

“Potted Herb Garden” – Vermillion Literary Project (4/14)

“Conjugal Visit” – Puff Puff (4/14)

“An Encounter with the Bottom of my Womanhood” – The Potomac Review (10/13)

“Takeout, 2013” – The Nashville Review (10/13)

“Ode to Ranch Dressing” – The MacGuffin (5/13);

Redux (8/15)

“Untitled” (Florida Haiku) – Robert Frost Haiku Contest E-Book (4/13)

“Five Stages of Building a Fire” – Broad River Review (3/13)

“Near Death Experience” – SLAB (1/13)

“My Smile is Breaking” – Labletter (9/12)

“First Night Sleeping with a Gun” – Labletter (9/12)

“Lightning” – The Poetry Quarterly (6/12)

“God Has Big Hands” – The Poetry Quarterly (6/12)

“Fuck Me Boots” – Mason’s Road (6/12)

“The Illusion of Sturdy” – Gargoyle (6/12)

“The Last Word” – Naugatuck River Review (5/12)

“No Country for Old Men” – Print Oriented Bastards (2/12)

“Her House is Pepto-Bismol Pink, My Neighbor Says” – PANK (2/12);

Sundress Press – Not Somewhere Else but Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Anthology) (6.13);

Redux (8/15)

“My Mom’s Getting Plastic Surgery” – PANK (2/12);

Redux (8/15)

“Sex with my Ex” – Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (Honorable Mention/Published (8/11)

“Mutually Naked Condition” – PANK (4/11)

“The Theology of Face, the Religion of Hands” – PANK (4/11)

“Like when we Were Together” – Interlit Quarterly (11/10)

“Move to Miami” – Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (runner-up and published) (8/10)

“Harry Potter’s Wand” – Pocket Smut (6/10)

“Another Unremarkable Friday: Him and Her” –Anon (5/10)

“Undressing a Hard Boiled Egg” – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5/10)

“The Worst Thing About Being Mickey Mouse” – A Face to Meet the Faces: Contemporary Anthology of Persona Poetry (Anthology) (3/10);

Tigertail (5/11)

“A Follow-Up Poem to ‘Sex With my Ex’” – Subtropics (2/10)

“An Iteration of Normalcy” - The Tule Review (11/09)

“Upon Being Turned Down for a Job Driving the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile – Rio Grande Review (7/09)

“Prime Time” – Ghoti (7/09)

“Peter Slepecki, the Weirdest Kid in the Third Grade” - Ghoti - (7/09)

“New York: 10 Takes” - Anon (7/09)

“Undertow” - Manorborn (6/09)

“Pluto, Upon Being Demoted to a Dwarf Planet” Merge (5/09)

“Disclaimer to my Future Husband” – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1/08);

Verse Envisioned: Poems from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Works of Art they have Inspired (9/15)

“Your Boomerang Child” – CaKe (12/07)

“Eviction Notice” – CaKe (12/07)

“Bowling in the Bumper Lane” – Third Wednesday (6/07)

“A.D.D. Ars Poetica” – Third Wednesday (6/07)

“Dear Thomas Kinkade,” – Third Wednesday (6/07)

“Graduate School Application” – Tattoo Highway (4/07)

“On Being Told that the Only thing will Survive A Nuclear Holocaust is a Twinkie” – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

(2/07)

“Hot Dog Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Meat” - Confrontation Magazine (11/06)

“A Cheap Layer of Spackling” – Ascent (11/06)

“Life on a Treadmill” – Thirteenth Warrior Review (4/06)

“A Trip to the Junkyard” – The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Long Story Short (5/05)

“Cracks and Reflections” - Long Story Short (5/05)

“Bunnies in the Sky” - Foliate Oak (1/05)

“i dream of pigeons” - Foliate Oak (2/05); Editor's Pick - Toasted Cheese (2/05)

COLLABORATIVE POEMS:

“Varietal Collapse” – Tigertail (6/12)

CREATIVE NONFICTION:

“Westing” – Hunger Mountain – (1/23)

“Proposal” – The Jellyfish Review – (3/22)

“The Alchemy of Food” – Crab Orchard Review (Special Issue: A World of Flavor: Writers on Food) (12/19)

“Miami Redux” – What I Found in Florida (Anthology) (2/18);

Third Coast (9/13)

Unlocked” – Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review (1/18)

“Ghosts” – Gettysburg Review (12/16)

“Getting Ink Done” – Sins and Needles (Anthology) (5/16)

“Pears” – Los Angeles Review (3/16)

“The Hanging” – Story Club (1/16)

“Breathe” – The Broken Plate (1/16)

“The Observer Effect” - Indianola Review (12/15)

“Points of Departure” – Hippocampus Magazine (9/15);

Memoir(and) (6/13)

“The Dark Thing” – Saw Palm (10/14)

“Hunger Pangs” – Quarter After Eight (10/13)

“Destination: Alone” – New Plains Review (9/13)

“The Butterfly Effect” – Best of Florida English Tenth Anniversary Contest (1/13)

“One Faulty Cable” – Sou’wester (9/12)

“Focus Group” – Puerto Del Sol (5/12)

“Swimming Becomes You” – Stymie (5/12)

“My Quarterlife Crisis” – Compass Rose (11/10)

“White Lie” – Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost (Anthology) (11/10)

“The Other Girl” – cream city review (10/10)

“Memoirs of a Psychonaut” – Front Porch (9/10)

“Closed Doors” – Los Angeles Review (3/10)

Six-word memoir - Smith College’s It All Changed in an Instant: Six Word Memoir Collection (1/10)

“Adult Swim” - Mangrove (10/09)

“The Woman in the Blue Coat” – Real Authentic Women (2/09)

“The Butterfly Effect” – Florida English (9/07)

“Forever Young” - The Oracular Tree (9/04)

FICTION:

“Fake Cover Letter” – Orca Literary Arts (1/2020)

“Playing the Part” - Flash! Writing the Very Short Story (8/16);

The Portland Review Friday Flash Contest (1/13)

“Home” – Flash! Writing the Very Short Story (8/16)

“The Old Woman and the Three-Foot Pepperoni” – Yellow Fox Quarterly (8/13)

“In Plain Sight” – 15 Views of Miami (2/13)

“My Special Day” – Conclave (3/12)

“Tip” – Gemini Flash Fiction Contest (11/11)

“Host” – Eclectic Flash (3/11)

“Roommates” – Milk Money (4/10)

“The Fifth Dimension” – Big Lucks (10/09)

“The Tooth Fairy Knows” - Third Wednesday (5/09)

“Handle with Care” - Tuesday Shorts - (2/09)

“Neck” – Tuesday Shorts - (9/08)

GRAPHIC MEMOIR:

“The Rejection Collection” - Blood on the Floor: How Writers Survive Rejection – (Anthology) - Carin Press (Cover

photo/graphic memoir) (10/14);

Reprinted excerpt/photos – The Writer (12/10);

Memoir(and) – (First-Prize Graphic Memoir Award Winner) (7/10)

BOOK REVIEW:

Review of Natalie Goldberg's The Great Failure - Creative Nonfiction (8/05)

BLOG:

“The Two Faces of Rejection” – Los Angeles Review (6/10)

INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED:

Susan Orlean – Sliver of Stone Magazine – (2011)

Mark Vonnegut – Sliver of Stone Magazine - (2011)

Louis Lowy – Sliver of Stone Magazine – (2011)

Alison Smith – Gulf Stream Magazine – (2008)

Brenda Miller – Creative Nonfiction – (2005)

Patricia McNair – Creative Nonfiction – (2005)

Cheryl Merrill – Creative Nonfiction – (2005)

Anjana Basu – Creative Nonfiction – (2005)

Lori Jackela – Creative Nonfiction – (2005)

Greg Bottoms – Creative Nonfiction – (2005)

INTERVIEW GIVEN:

All That Glitters: A Sliver of Stone Nonfiction Anthology (2013)

REFERENCES: Denise Duhamel

Professor of Poetry

Florida International University

aduikl@r.postjobfree.com

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John Dufresne

Professor of Fiction

Florida International University

johnnydufresne@gmail

954-***-****

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