EDUCATION
Ph.D. Creative Writing, Prose, University of Utah, 2020
M.F.A. Poetry, George Mason University, 2013
M.A. Fiction, University of Cincinnati, 2008
B.A. English & Fiction Certificate, University of Cincinnati, 2006
Voc. Ed. Creative Writing, (K-12) School for Creative and Performing Arts, 1999
EMPLOYMENT
Stony Brook University, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing & Literature, Stony Brook, NY, 2020–present
Yale University, Core Faculty, Yale Writers’ Workshop, New Haven, CT, 2013–present
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS: NONFICTION
2025, FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR, ROSE METAL PRESS
Selected, Rose Metal press’s Hybrid Genre Open Reading period, 2023
Shortlisted, Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, 2016
Books: Verse Novels
2018, Desire: A Haunting, Ampersand Books
2014, We Take Me Apart, Ampersand Books (reprint; Mud Luscious Press, 2010)
Finalist, 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry
shortlisted, 2011 pen/osterweil award for Poetry
Chapbooks: Nonfiction
2014, Wild Thing, The Cupboard
Chapbooks: Poetry
2014, Shadow Memories, Black Warrior Review 41.1
2010, Anatomy for the Artist, Blossombones
2009, Bloody Floral Sandals, Scantily Clad Press
2009, Parts, Mud Luscious Press
Chapbooks: fiction
2012, Lost July, included in Frequencies, YesYes Books
2011, Portrait of a Modern Family, Featherproof Minibooks, 2011
Anthologies: Poetry
2024, The Lunar Codex (time capsule of 1,500 artworks launching to the moon on a spaceX Falcon 9), “That Brunch We Didn’t Have,” Ed. Dr. Samuel Peralta, Lunar codex project
2015, Mad to Live Erased, “Morton Bonsey,” Ed. Randall Brown, Matter Press
2014, (T)here: Writings on Returnings, Ed. Brandi Dawn Henderson, “Fruit,” Martlet & Mare, pp. 24–25
2013, Multifesto: A Henri D’mescan Remix, Ed. Davis Schneiderman, “Henri d’Mescan: From Abstractions (1937),” Spuyten Duyvil, pp. 58–66
2012, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, Eds. Stacey Lynn Brown & Oliver de la Paz, “Picasso’s Heart,” U of Akron Press, pp. 318–321
2012, In Those Days We, “Sarah” and “Matilda,” Ed. Jennifer Tomaloff, Light Into Verse
2012, Bleed Me A River: A Domestic Violence Anthology, Ed. David S. Pointer, Westview
2010, MLP Stamp Stories Anthology, Excerpt from We Take Me Apart, Ed. JA Tyler, Mud Luscious Press
2009, MLP: The First Year, “parts,” Ed. JA Tyler, Mud Luscious Press
2008, What Happened To Us These Last Couple Years? An Anthology of the Bush Years, “Sir Salman Rushdie,” “The Apology,” “Eat,” Ed. David Barringer, Elope Press
Anthologies: Fiction
2011, Kartika Review Anthology, Ed. Christine Lee Zilka, “The parents, they have lost their daughter,” Kartika Press, p. 11
2010, RE: Telling, Ed. William Walsh, “Down at the Dinghy,” Ampersand Books, pp. 116–117
2010, A La Carte: Short Stories that Stir the Foodie In All of Us, Ed. S. Craig Renfroe, “Lavender Rose Petal Cheesecake,” Main Street Rag Publishing Co., pp. 108-112
2010, Best of the Web 2010, Ed. Kathy Fish, “The Sky as John Saw It the Night Kate Sparkled,” Dzanc Books, pp. 228–229
2009, Best of the Web 2009, Ed. Lee K. Abbott, “The American,” Dzanc Books, pp. 122-123
2009, Dogzplot Flash Fiction, “July in Cincinnati,” Ed. Barry Graham, Paper Hero
2001, Feral Parakeets & Other Stories, “My Weakness,” Ed. Ryck Neube, Cincinnati Writers Project
Literary Magazines: Creative Nonfiction
2023, The Palisades Review, “Excerpts from Stargazer”
2022, Cutleaf, “Origin Story: An Essay”
2020, Prairie Schooner, “Naked As the Day I Was Born”
2016, Banango, “Dreaming of a Thousand Things”
2016, apt, “Hermes, in medias res”
2015, Stirrings, “You Know You’re Adopted When”
2015, The Margins, “The Bridge At No Gun Ri”
2015, Drunken Boat, “Your Name Is Rose”
2015, Origins, “Because Mary Ruefle says she’s convinced the first lyric poem was witness to the moon and that the moon was witness to the event”
2015, Prime Number, “The Only Thing I Can Think of Is Heartbreak”
2013, Necessary Fiction, “The Other Things We Do: Dance”
2013, Psychopomp, “Wild Thing”
2012, Puerto del Sol, Chapters One-Four from Beauty: An Adoption, No. 47.01
2009, anderbo, “Problems”
Literary magazines: Fiction
2024, Drunken Boat, “Octopus Attack!”
2023, ACTION, SPECTACLE, “READY TO SERVE”
2022, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, “The Rejected Jurors”
2019, The Arkansas International, “The Story Cleaner”
2015, Heavy Feather Review, “Creation Myth”
2015, Bombay Literary Magazine, “The American”
2014, Necessary Fiction, excerpts from Fit Into Me
2013, First Inkling, “Fit Into Me”
2011, Housefire, “These Tender Balloons”
2010, Cartographer Electric!, “Baltimore Song” and “Lettuce Love”
2010, Drunken Boat, “The Professional Lover”
2009, apt, “Happy Birthday, Miss Penny Primrose,” No. 19
2009, Emprise Review, “Potpourri”
2009, Eyeshot, “The End of Blogging As We Now Know It”
2009, Fawlt Magazine, “Eliza Little’s Leaving”
2009, Kartika Review, “The parents, they have lost their daughter”
2009, Mud Luscious, “The Dead Cells of the Day,” No. 07
2009, Northville Review, “Paisley”
2009, Night Train, “An”
2009, [PANK], “How a Girl Like Mary Got Giggle Water Drunk in Johnny Oe’s Struggle Buggy,” No. 03
2009, Quick Fiction, “Procession,” No. 14
2009, Robot Melon, “Apple Baby Moses Law,” No. 06
2009, Titular, “Down at the Dinghy”
2008, Abjective, “The Sky As John Saw It the Night Kate Sparkled”
2008, Hobart, “Jesus or Happy Birthday”
2008, Lamination Colony, “Last time it rained this hard the dog drowned”
2008, Serendipity, “The Bees,” No. 09
2008, Titular, “Six Feet Under”
2008, Wigleaf, “Come See the Monkey”
2008, Word Riot, “Three’s Your Limit”
2008, UpRightDown, “The American,” No. 01
Literary magazines: Poetry
2014, Sugar Mule, excerpts from Desire: A Haunting
2014, OmniVerse (“ZombieVerse” Issue), “parts”
2013, Columbia Poetry Review, “Iris, Christmas Eve”
2013, Experiment-O, excerpt from Ogie: A Ghost Story
2013, Line Break, “Fruit” and “Dear Satomi Shirai”
2013, Lucid Play, excerpts from Ogie: A Ghost Story, 2013
2013, Prick of the Spindle, excerpts from Ogie: A Ghost Story
2013, Similar:Peaks::, excerpt from Ogie: A Ghost Story
2013, Unshod Quills, excerpt from Ogie: A Ghost Story
2012, Barrelhouse, “No Nation Woman”
2012, Nickel Steak, “Welcome to the Carnival”
2012, Pear Noir!, “Best. Summer. Ever.” No. 07
2012, So It Goes: Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, “War Wear”
2011, Dinosaur Bees, “Die with me when I die”
2011, Gargoyle, “Bug, Car, Man: A Triptych,” “A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings,” “Is to love an imperative infinitive?” and “Velveteen,” No. 57
2011, Matter Press: Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, “Marge Next Door”
2011, Midwestern Gothic, “War Wear,” No. 01
2011, Necessary Fiction, “Rain”
2011, Requited Journal, “My house is filled with flowers. The walls are bare.”
2011, Sixth Finch, “As long as there is breath in me”
2011, Tarpaulin Sky, Prologue and 1.1 from Rosalia
2011, Verse Daily: Weekly Web Feature, “Desire”
2011, Wonderfort, “How I dressed for dinner every evening”
2011, Wrong Tree Review, “Nothing says home like Boredom,” No. 03
2010, Artifice Magazine, “Love, Wolf,” No. 02
2010, Poets for Living Waters, “Glass Cinders” and “Reborn”
2010, Dark Sky Magazine, Excerpts from Portrait of a Modern Family
2010, Eleven Eleven, “pea,” “cocoa,” No. 09
2010, ESQUE, Prologue from Rosalia
2010, IsReads, “No. 1”
2010, JMWW, “The Peacock Lady” and “Featherman”
2010, > Kill Author, “Hunt Her, Gather Her”
2010, Monkeybicycle, “Sadness, War, Heartbreak,” No. 07
2010, Moon Milk Review, “pea” (published as “From We Take Me Apart)
2010, Necessary Fiction, “Erasure” and “Soulkeeper”
2010, The Nervous Breakdown, “Egg”
2010, Octopus Magazine, Chapters 2-4 Rosalia, No. 14
2010, Robot Melon, “Field Mice,” No. 11
2010, Slingshot Litareview, “Disappear”
2010, Thunderclap! Magazine, “Gone fishin’ suckas!” No. 04
2010, TRNSFR, “On 9th,” No. 03
2010, Turk’s Head Review, “Morning” and “Greet Me”
2010, Vinyl, “Desire”
2010, Yesterday’s Bouquet, “What is the story of legs?” and “Happy Easter, Meg”
2009, Barrelhouse, “I Cook, I Clean”
2009, The Battered Suitcase, “Milk Butter and Rose Petal Lip Balm”
2009, Big Toe Review, “A Letter, A Number, Some Punctuation”
2009, Blue Print Review, “faith”
2009, Counterexample Poetics, “by the bony structure of the upper limb—”
2009, decomP, “Queen Hibiscus” and “You Are the Weeper and I Am the Grower”
2009, Dogzplot, “July In Cincinnati”
2009, elimae, “Instead of flying in for her thirty-first birthday”
2009, Everyday Genius, “chicken”
2009, Finery, “Anatomical Terminology,” No. 06
2009, For Every Year, “Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?”
2009, FRiGG, “by muscles of the upper limb—” and “by muscular system of the upper limb and Its function”
2009, Nova Cookie and Frozen Hell, Untitled
2009, Oak Bend Review, “Anechka Rybalsky Is A Tree”
2009, [PANK], “Beneath Mosquito Netting I Imagine,” No. 03
2009, Pax Americana, “Reunion,” No. 12
2009, Pear Noir!, “Chilled Pear and Rose Petal Soup,” No. 02
2009, Red Peter, “Body” and “Easter Monday”
2009, Tuesday Shorts, “I ate a slice of orange today”
2009, Unscroll, “Burned”
2009, Whiskey Island Magazine, “Parts,” No. 57
2009, Yesterday’s Bouquet, “gratitude,” “mission,” “courage,” and “bouquet”
2008, Six Sentences, “Once Upon A Train”
2008, Tulip, “Dandelions”
Literary magazines: Conducted Interviews & Conversations
2022, Los Angeles Review of Books, “Silent Refusal: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling”
2015, Best American Poetry blog, “Gender, Genre, & Hybridity: A Conversation between Kristina Marie Darling and Molly Gaudry”
2012, Lit Pub, “A Conversation with Carmen Giménez Smith”
2011, Lit Pub, “An Interview with Blake Butler”
2011, Lit Pub, “An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch”
2011, Big Other, “A Conversation with Kristina Born”
2010, HTML Giant, “An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith”
2010, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Ben Loory”
2010, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Ken Sparling”
2010, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Christopher Higgs”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Andrew Zornoza”
2009, Rumble Magazine, “An Interview with Claudia Smith”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “A Conversation with Amelia Gray”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “A Conversation with Lily Hoang”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Blake Butler”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Joshua Michael Stewart”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Darrin Doyle”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “Lydia Millet on My Happy Life”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with J.C. Hallman”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Kyle Beachy”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “B.R. Smith on ‘The Countrymen (Haiti, 1798)’”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Shane Jones”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “Benjamin Percy on Descriptive Language”
2009, Keyhole Magazine, “An Interview with Thomas Glave”
2008, Keyhole Magazine, “Anthony Doerr on ‘The Hunter’s Wife’”
2008, Keyhole Magazine, “Charles J. Hanley on The Bridge at No Gun Ri”
2008, Keyhole Magazine, “Richard Garcia on ‘My Grandmother’s Laughter’”
PUBLISHING & EDITING
Guest Editor, Action, Spectacle, Summer 2024
Associate Editor, Flash Fiction America, W. W. Norton, 2023
Founder & Publisher, Lit Pub, 2011–2023
Selected Web Contributors: Alan Cheuse, Oliver de la Paz, Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, JC Hallman, Peter Tieryas Liu, Sarah Manguso, Lydia Millet, Maggie Nelson, Matthew Salesses
Selected Book authors: Aimee Bender, Kathy Fish, Miles Harvey, Caitlin Horrocks
guest selecting editor, wigleaf top 50, 2021
Assistant Editor, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2018–2020
Judge, Sejong Writing Competition, 2018–2019
Reader, Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, 2018
Reader, The Chautauqua Janus Prize, 2018
Contributing editor, heck magazine, 2015
Judge, Wasatch Iron Pen Competition, SLC Arts Festival, 2014
Reader, Ronald Sukenick/FC2 Innovative Fiction Contest, 2013
Inaugural Guest Editor, Hybrid Beasts, Red Lemonade Anthology, 2012
Publisher, Willows Wept Press/Cow Heavy Books, 2008–2012
Co-founding Editor, Twelve Stories, 2008–2012
Judge, The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review Summer Prosetry Contest, 2011
Contributor, Big Other, 2009–2011
Guest Editor, Smokelong Quarterly Weekly Edition, 2010
Founding Editor, Willows Wept Review, 2008–2010
Associate Editor, Keyhole Magazine, 2008–2010
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Teaching Consultant Fellowship, Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence, 2019–2020
Steffensen Cannon (Dissertation) Fellowship, University of Utah, The Graduate School, 2018–2020
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Utah, The Graduate School (Offer Declined), 2018
Vice Presidential Fellowship, University of Utah, English Department, 2013–2015
Personal Statements Fellowship, George Mason University, Honors College, 2010–2013
STUDENT AWARD SUPERVISION
9 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships
2 Fulbright Research Grants
9 Critical Language Scholarships
2 Boren Awards
1 Truman Scholarship
1 National Science Foundation Woman of the Year Grant
HONORS & AWARDS
2023, NOTABLE ESSAY, BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2023, “ORIGIN STORY: AN ESSAY”
2023, SELECTED, HYBRID GENRE OPEN READING PERIOD, FIT INTO ME: A NOVEL: A MEMOIR
2018, Finalist, Crab Orchard Series Poetry Open Competition, What Are You?
2016, Shortlisted, Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, Fit Into Me
2011, Finalist, 14th Annual Asian Am. Literary Award for Poetry, We Take Me Apart
2011, Shortlisted, 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, We Take Me Apart
2010, Selected by Brian Evenson, Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, “I Cook, I Clean”
2010, Selected by Kathy Fish, Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010, “The Sky as John Saw It the Night Kate Sparkled”
2009, Finalist, Firewheel Chapbook Award, Problems of Depiction
2009, Finalist, Rose Metal Press’s 3rd Annual Short Short Fiction Chapbook Contest, Come See the Monkey and Other Stories
2009, Longlisted, Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, “The Sky as John Saw It the Night Kate Sparkled”
2009, Selected by Serendipity, Final/Best-of Issue, “The Bees”
2009, Selected by Lee K. Abbott, Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2009, “The American”
2006, Honorable Mention, Academy of American Poets Prize, “Today”
2003, Recipient, Hopton Short Story Prize, University of Cincinnati, “Monitu”
Nominations
2020, Nominated by The arkansas international, Best of the net, “The Story Cleaner”
2018, Nominated by English Department, Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Utah
2016, Nominated by apt, Best of the Net, “Hermes: In Medias Res”
2013, Nominated by Prick of the Spindle, Pushcart Prize, Excerpts from Desire
2012, Nominated by Garrett Hongo, “Asian American Portraits of Encounter,” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
2012, Nominated by Garrett Hongo, TA Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
2012, Nominated by Pedro Ponce, ALMA (Annual Laurentian Mentorship in the Arts) Honorarium, St. Lawrence University
2011, Nominated by PEN Member Dawn Raffel, PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, We Take Me Apart
2011, Nominated by Mud Luscious Press, Asian Am. Literary Award, We Take Me Apart
2010, Nominated by Monkeybicycle, Pushcart Prize, “Sadness, War, Heartbreak”
2009, Nominated by Emprise Review, Pushcart Prize, “Potpourri”
2009, Nominated by Whiskey Island Magazine, Pushcart Prize, “Parts”
2009, Nominated by Abjective, Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010, “The Sky as John Saw It the Night Kate Sparkled”
2009, Nominated by Mud Luscious Press, Best of the Web 2010, “Dead Cells of the Day”
2009, Nominated by Yesterday’s Bouquet, Best of the Web 2010, “gratitude”
2009, Nominated by Mud Luscious Press, Pushcart Prize, Excerpts from We Take Me Apart
2009, Nominated by PANK, Pushcart Prize, “Beneath mosquito netting I imagine”
2009, Nominated by Big Toe Review, Best of the Net 2009, “A Letter, A Number, Some Punctuation: After Richard Garcia”
2009, Reader-nominated, storySouth’s Million Writers Award, “Georgia on My Mind”
2009, Nominated by Serendipity, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, “The Bees”
CONFERENCE PANELS
2021, “What’s Real May Not Be: Fact, Fiction, and Cross-Genre Play,” Connecticut Literary Festival, Hartford, CT, Oct 22-23
2020, “Outside the Cone of Silence: Rethinking How and Where We Teach Creative Writing,” AWP, San Antonio, TX, March 4–7 (Did Not Attend/Pandemic)
2014, “Shouting In A Crowded Room: Challenges In Expanding Small-Press Readership,” AWP, Seattle, WA, Feb 26–March 1
2014, “So You Want To Build A Platform: But What Is It & Why Do You Need One? Women Writers and Editors Speak Out,” AWP, Seattle, WA, Feb 26–March 1
2013, “Literary Citizenship,” Johns Hopkins University, 5th Annual Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Getting Published, Baltimore, MD, April 13
2012, “Small Press Publishing: Akashic Books, Bellevue Literary Press, Small Beer Press, and Lit Pub,” Yale Writers’ Conference, New Haven, CT, June 21
2011, “Poetry Showcase: Molly Gaudry, Kimiko Hahn, Garrett Hongo, and Tracy K. Smith,” 3rd Annual Asian American Literary Festival, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Melville House, Brooklyn, NY, October 27–29
2011, “The Nature of the Digital Landscape,” Johns Hopkins University, 4th Annual Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Getting Published, Baltimore, MD, April 16
2011, “The Audacity of Scope: Crafting the Book-length Poem,” AWP, Washington, DC, February 2–5
2009, “Flash Fiction,” Johns Hopkins University, 3rd Annual Conversations & Connections: Practical Advice on Getting Published, Baltimore, MD, April 11
2008, “Giving High School Writers the Tools They Need to Engage in Long-Term Projects,” Fiction and Drama Panel, Pedagogy Forum, AWP, New York City, NY
INVITED TALKS
2024, “The Nuts and Bolts of Web Design,” Kristina Marie Darling’s Practicum in Publishing, Pocket MFA
2022, “Indie Publishing and Lit Pub,” Kristina Marie Darling’s Practicum in Publishing: From Literary Acquisitions to Book Publicity, American University in Rome
2021, “Lyric Poetry: Confusion, Clarity, and Structure,” Quogue Library, Quogue, NY, July 10
2021, “True Stories and Fit Into Me,” Justin Armstrong’s Ethnographic Writing Course, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, May 13
2021, “Flash Fiction,” Cape Cod Writers Conference, Osterville, MA, April 10
2017, “The Acceptance of Influence: How Tender Buttons Was Taken Apart to Make We Take Me Apart,” University of Alabama, Bankhead Series Literary Salon, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 23
2014, “Verse Novels and We Take Me Apart,” Ryder Collins’s Graduate Workshop, Mount Mary College
2013, “Verse Novels and We Take Me Apart,” Lily Hoang’s Master’s Workshop, New Mexico State University
2009, “Flash Fiction,” Randall Brown’s Fiction Workshop, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2024, “How to Submit to Literary magazines,” Yale Writers’ Workshop, New Haven, CT, June 7
2024, “Making Sense of the Writing Life: Q&A with Molly Gaudry and Casey Plett,” Professor Soapbox Lecture Series, BFA-Student Organized Creative Writing Salon, Stony Brook, NY, April 17
2024, “How fit Into me: A Novel: A Memoir Found a Home: Rose Metal Press’s Hybrid Genre Open Reading Period,” BookEnds Alumni Visiting Writers Series, Virtual, Feb 28
2023, “Personal Statements and Applying to Graduate School,” Julie Sheehan’s BFA Capstone, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, October 11
2023, “Discovering Voice,” Yale Writers’ Workshop, New Haven, CT, June 6
2021, “The Lyric Essay: A Broken Form for Broken Narratives; Or, Snowflakes on an Arrow,” Southampton Writers Conference, July 16
2020, “Applying to Graduate School,” IMAGINE Reading series, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, Sept 30
2016, “Small Press Publishing,” Utah Daily Chronicle Writers’ Workshop, University of Utah, SLC, UT
2011, “What Undergraduates Need to Know About Publishing,” Undergraduate English Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2010, “Personal Statements for Graduate School Applications,” George Mason University, Lecture and Public Workshop, Fairfax, VA, November 3
2010, “Crafting the Personal Statement,” George Mason University, GMU’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Graduate Fellowship Panel, Fairfax, VA, October 27
2010, “Verse Novels and We Take Me Apart,” Kenneth Pobo’s Senior Seminar, Widener University, Chester, PA
2010, “Online Publishing & Small Presses,” Michael Cocciarale’s Senior Seminar, Widener University, Chester, PA
2008, “Publishing & Editing,” with Nicola Mason and Don Bogen, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2008, “Torture in Cultural and Literary (Con)texts: Animal Rights, Domestic Abuse, Abu Ghraib, and Aimee Bender’s ‘End of the Line,’” Representing Violence: Literature & Visual Cultures, Ropes Graduate Colloquium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
INVITED READINGS
2023, A READING IN CELEBRATION OF LANCE OLSEN & MELANIE RAE THON, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT, SEPT 28
2023, SATURDAYS ON THE SOUND, CURRY CLUB, PORT JEFFERSON, NY, SEPT 23
2023, Faculty Reading, Yale Writers’ Workshop, New Haven, CT, June 5
2022, Faculty Reading, Yale Writers’ Workshop, New Haven, CT, Virtual, June 14
2022, IMAGINE Reading Series, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, Virtual, April 6
2022, Write America Reading Series, Byrd’s Books, Bethel, CT, Virtual, Feb 14
2022, Cobalt Reading Series, Virtual, January 11
2021, Dire Literary Series, Cambridge, MA, Virtual, Oct 15
2021, Yale Writers’ Workshop Faculty Reading, New Haven, CT, Virtual, June 23
2021, Write America Reading Series, Book Revue, Huntington, NY, Virtual, May 31
2021, One Page Wednesday, Literary Arts, Portland, OR, Virtual, March 3
2020, IMAGINE Reading Series, SBU, Stony Brook, NY, Virtual, Nov 2
2019, Utah Humanities & City Art Reading Series, SLC Public Library, UT October 9
2019, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, March 12
2019, Water Witch Reading Series, Water Witch Bar, SLC, UT, February 7
2017, University of Alabama, Bankhead Series, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 24
2015, Asian Writers Book Club Luncheon & Reception, SLC, UT
2014, City Art Book Festival, SLC Public Library, UT, October 1
2014, Blood Market Series, The Republican, SLC, UT
2014, Muzzle + Vinyl, Lucid Lounge, Seattle, WA, February 28
2013, Working Dog Reading Series, Finch Lane Gallery, SLC, UT
2012, Revolution, Independence, Freedom: A Literary Salon, Vermilion, OH
2012, Call Your Girlfriend, Blue Moon Café, Washington, DC
2012, Literary Death Match, DC9, Washington, DC, March 7
2012, Table X/Y Reading Experiment, Outer Space Studio, Chicago, IL, March 2
2012, Propaganda Reading, Haymarket Pub, Chicago, IL
2011, Page Turner: Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Annual Literary Festival, Melville House, Brooklyn, NY, October 29
2011, UMass Boston Presents MLP, Campus Bookstore, Boston, MA, October 27
2011, Colorado State University MLP, Equinox Brewing, Fort Collins, CO, October 16
2011, Bad Show Affair, Lost Lake Lounge Denver, CO, October 15
2011, Loud Fire Series (GMU), The Soundry, Vienna, VA
2011, The Three Tents Reading Series, The Big Hunt, Washington, DC, July 17
2011, Women Kickass Writers, Goodbye Blue Monday, NYC, NY, May 13
2011, Divination, Ireland’s Four Provinces, Washington, DC, February 3
2010, Great Lakes, Great Times, Ann Arbor, MI, November 21
2010, TRNSFR Launch, Pete’s Candy Store, NYC, NY, October 23
2010, Artifice Magazine Release, Wonderland Ballroom, Washington, DC, October 14
2010, Barrelhouse Presents, The Black Squirrel, Washington, DC, September 18
2010, Dogzplot/JMWW Reading, Normal’s Bookstore, Baltimore, MD, September 11
2010, Monumental Reading Series, Baltimore, MD
2010, Kindling Reading Series (GMU), Vienna, VA
2010, Barrelhouse Presents Moon Milk Review, Washington, DC
2010, Dogzplot & JMWW Reading, Baltimore, MD
2010, The Broad Set Reading Series, Philadelphia, PA
2010, Last Rites Reading Series, Baltimore, MD
2010, Enclave Reading Series, Cake Shop, NYC, NY, April 24
2010, Mud Luscious & Flatmancrooked, AWP 2010, Denver, CO
2010, Dogzpank, AWP 2010, Denver, CO
2010, Chapter & Verse, Chapterhouse Café, Philadelphia, PA, March 27
2010, Ding Dong Lounge, New York, NY, March 21
2010, 440 Reading Series, 440 Gallery, Park Slope, NY, March 21
2010, 510 Reading Series, A Minas Gallery, Baltimore, MD, March 20
2009, Myopic Books, Providence, RI, December 5
2009, Dire Literary Series, Out of the Blue Art Gallery, Cambridge, MA, December 4
2009, KGB Bar, NYC, NY, May 26
2009, The Book Cellar, Chicago, IL, February 11
RADIO, PODCASTS, & STAGE
2016, This Choice Podcast, “This Choice: Molly Gaudry”
2015, The Drunken Odyssey Podcast, “Buzzed Books #22: We Take Me Apart”
2014, The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast Series
2011, KKUP 91.5 FM, “Out of Our Minds,” host JP Dancing Bear, Cupertino, CA
2011, Sweet! Actors Reading Writers, “Picasso’s Heart,” NYC, NY
2010, Orange Alert Podcast, “‘The Peacock Lady’ and ‘Featherman,’” Chicago, IL
2009, Apostrophe Cast, “Molly Gaudry reads from We Take Me Apart,” NYC, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Stony Brook University—MFA Program, Southampton / Manhattan, NY, assistant professor
Forms of Nonfiction: Lyric Essay, Fall 2024
Introduction to Graduate Writing, Fall 2023
Forms of Poetry: The Art of Voice / 50 Poems (Fall 2021, Fall 2023)
Teaching Practicum: Introduction to Teaching Creative Writing (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
Forms of Nonfiction: Hybrid Memoir, Fall 2022
Forms of Poetry: Disorder, Order, Structure, and Movement, Spring 2022
forms of poetry: the art of the poetic turn, spring 2021
Forms of Nonfiction: the ways of the essay, fall 2020
stony brook university—bfa program, stony brook, ny, assistant professor
Forms of nonfiction: Lyric Essay, Fall 2024
Forms of Fiction: Novels in Vignettes, Spring 2023
Forms of Poetry: Structure & Movement in Contemporary Poetry, Spring 2023
Forms of poetry: MG & YA Novels in Verse, Fall 2022
Forms of Nonfiction: Hybrid Memoir, Fall 2022
Forms of Nonfiction: Fragments and Flashes in Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2022
Topics In World Lit for Writers: Beauties & Beasts Around the World, Fall 2021
Forms of Poetry: The Art of Voice / 50 Poems, Fall 2021
introduction to contemporary literature: how to borrow like a writer, spring 2021
forms of nonfiction: the ways of the essay, fall 2020
Yale Writers’ Workshop, New Haven, CT, CORE faculty
FICTION WORKSHOP (SUMMER 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Short Stories Workshop (Summer 2015, 2017, 2018)
The Lyric Essay (Summer 2015)
Flash Fiction Workshop (Summer 2013, 2014, 2015)
University of Utah—Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence, Salt Lake City, UT (Pedagogy courses for TAs and Postdocs across disciplines), teaching fellow
Cyber Pedagogy (Spring 2020)
Teaching in Higher Education (Fall 2019)
La Europa Academy, Murray, UT (Residential treatment center specializing in intensive therapeutic modalities), instructor
Generative Short Fiction Workshop: “Light the Dark” (Winter 2019)
Generative poetry Workshop: “What It Is” (Fall 2019)
Generative Story Building: 25 Works (Summer 2019)
Contemporary ethnic Short Fiction (Spring 2019)
Fables & Fairy Tales (Winter 2018)
University of Utah—Department of English, Salt Lake City, UT, instructor
Intro to Creative Writing (Spring 2016, Spring 2018)
Writing Fiction (Spring 2016)
University of Utah—Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies, Salt Lake City, UT, instructor
Intermediate Writing (Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018)
The Company of Writers, Weston, CT, instructor
Teen Girls’ Fiction Workshop (Summer 2015)
George Mason University Honors College, Fairfax, VA, scholarships specialist
University Scholars’ Personal Statements Supervision (Fall 2010–Spring 2013)
Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA, adjunct instructor
FYC College Composition (Fall 2010)
Widener University Delaware Law School, Wilmington, DE, adjunct instructor
FYC Composition and Critical Thought, “Ways of Seeing” (Spring 2010)
Widener University, Chester, PA, adjunct instructor
FYC Composition and Critical Thought (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
Adv. Exposition & Literature, “Hope: Literature for Hard Times” (Spring 2010)
Adv. Exposition & Literature, “Ecocriticism” (Fall 2009)
Widener University, Chester, PA, adjunct instructor
Writing Center (Fall 2009–Spring 2010)
Lighthouse Management & Phoenix Halfway Houses, Philadelphia, PA, instructor
Pre-GED and GED (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
Pennell Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA, instructor
Pre-GED and GED (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
University of Cincinnati, instructor
FYC Composition with Service Learning, “The History & Future of SCPA” (Spring 2008)
FYC Composition (Fall 2007)
School for Creative & Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH, Writer-in-Residence
Flash Fiction Workshop (Fall 2008–Spring 2009)
First Novel Chapter Workshop (Fall 2007–Spring 2008)
Short Story Workshop (Fall 2006–Spring 2007)
University of Cincinnati, Learning Assistance Center, Cincinnati, OH, tutor
English (Summer 2007)
University of Cincinnati, English Department Writing Center, Cincinnati, OH, tutor
Writing Center (Fall 2006–Spring 2007)
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