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)

SERVICE

Professional

Founder and Publisher, Lit Pub, 2011-present

Associate Editor, Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton), Eds. Dufresne, Flick, Thomas, 2023

Contributor (Anonymous Critical Commentary), Sijo: Primer of Korea’s Poetry Form, Sejong Cultural Society, Chicago, IL, Sept 2020

Provided Blurb, Lary Bloom’s I’ll Take New Haven: Tales of Discovery and Rejuvenation (Antrim House), 2022

Provided blurb for Michael Martone’s Winesburg, Indiana (Baobab Press), 2022

Guest Selecting Editor, Wigleaf Top 50, 2021

Provided blurb for Dean Kostos’s Broken Color (MadHat Press), 2021

Provided blurb for E. Briskin’s Orange (Entre Ríos Books), 2020

Provided blurb for Chase Burkey’s Lecture (Paper Nautilus), 2020

Provided blurb for Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes’s Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf (Mason Jar Press), 2020

Judge (Intangibles), Literary Death Match, Ogden, UT, 2019

Writing Coach, College Application Essays, La Europa Academy, Murray, UT, 2018–2019

Provided blurb for Meghan Lamb’s All Your Most Private Places (Spork Press), 2019

Provided blurb for Brittany Hailer’s Animal You’ll Surely Become (Tolsun Books), 2018

Reader, Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, 2018

Reader, The Chautauqua Janus Prize, 2018

Charms Professor (Poetry, ages 11-18), O.W.L. Camp, Salt Lake County Library, 2018

Provided blurb for Jordan Okumura’s Gaijin (Jaded Ibis Press), 2016

Provided blurb for Julie Marie Wade’s Catechism (Noctuary Press), 2016

Provided blurb for Kristina Marie Darling’s Women and Ghosts (BlazeVOX), 2015

Provided blurb for Ken Pobo’s When the Light Turns Green (Spruce Alley), 2014

Provided blurb for Dominic Gualco’s The Apocalypse Is Near and I Am Going to Love this World, 2014

Provided blurb for Ashley Inguanta’s For the Woman Alone (Ampersand Books), 2014

Judge, Wasatch Iron Pen Competition, SLC Arts Festival, 2014

Judge (Literary), Literary Death Match, Salt Lake City, UT, 2014

Reader, Ronald Sukenick/FC2 Innovative Fiction Contest, 2013

Provided blurb for Marc Vincenz’s Beautiful Rush (Unlikely Books), 2013

Provided blurb for Jen Michalski’s From Here (Aqueous Books), 2013

Provided blurb for Carolyn DeCarlo’s and Jackson Niewland’s Twilight Zone (UP), 2013

Provided blurb for Eva Heisler’s Drawing Water (Noctuary Press), 2013

Provided blurb for Stacey Teague’s my hair is longer now than when you knew me (Sorry House), 2013

Inaugural Guest Editor, Hybrid Beasts, Red Lemonade anthology, 2012

Juror, Regional Scholastic Writing Awards, Howard University, 2012

Publisher, WWP/Cow Heavy Books, 2008–2012  

Co-founding Editor, Twelve Stories, 2008–2012      

Provided blurb for Kristina Marie Darling’s Melancholia: An Essay (Ravenna Press), 2011

Provided blurb for j/j hastain’s we force effect the oubliette (Scrambler Books), 2011

Provided blurb for Eric Elliott’s The Graves We Dig (Ampersand Books), 2011

Judge, The Doctor TJ Eckleburg Review Summer Prosetry Contest, 2011

Contributor, Big Other, 2009–2011           

Provided blurb for Rose Hunter’s To the River (Artistically Declined Press), 2010

Provided blurb for Eric Beeny’s Of Creatures (Gold Wake Press), 2010.

Guest Editor, SmokeLong Quarterly (Weekly Edition), 2010

Founding Editor, Willows Wept Review, 2008–2010 

Associate Editor, Keyhole Magazine, 2008–2010      

Provided blurb for David Peak’s Museum of Fucked (Warm Milk Printing Press), 2009

Provided blurb for Greg Santos’s Thinking Things Through (Pangur Ban Party), 2009

Provided blurb for Ben Brooks’s Fences (Fugue State Press), 2009

Mentor, Creative Writing Dept., School for Creative & Performing Arts, 2006–2009

Judge, Corbett-Mayerson Creative Writing Award for Outstanding Senior Project at the School for Creative & Performing Arts, Cincinnati, OH, 2008

Stony Brook University

Associate Director, MFA Program, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2023

Co-chair, MFA Admissions Committee, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2023

Organizer, MFA Graduation Ceremony, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2023

Organizer, Agents & Publishers Festival (Virtual), Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2023

Mentor, BookEnds, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2023

Organizer, IMAGINE Reading Series, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2021-Fall 2022

Advisor, Independent Study (MFA), Contemporary Experimental Fiction, Creative writing and Literature, Fall 2022

Poetry Reader, MFA Admissions, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2022

Advisor, Independent Study (MFA), Contemporary Asian American Literature, Creative Writing & Literature, Fall 2021

Member, MFA Admissions Committee, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2021

Member, BFA Admissions Committee, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2021

Member, Undergraduate Working Group, The Southampton Review Self-Study, Creative Writing & Literature, Spring 2021

Organizer, IMAGINE Reading Series: TA Reading, Stony Brook University, Oct 14, 2020

Poetry Reader, The Southampton Review, Stony Brook University, Fall 2020

University of Utah

OUTSIDE MEMBER, PHD COMMITTEE, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, 2022

Member, Graduate Student Committee, Open-Rank Fiction Search, University of Utah, 2019

Writing Coach, Veterans Support Center, University of Utah, 2018–2020

Member, Application Review Committee, Dreamers Connecting Our Community Union Scholarship, University of Utah, 2019

Member, Application Review Committee, Union Student Leader Scholarship, University of Utah, 2019

George Mason University

Mentor, Undergraduate English Society, George Mason University, 2010–2013

Mentor, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (STEM fields), George Mason University, 2010–2013

Widener University

Writing Tutor, Writing Center, Widener University, Chester, PA, Fall 2009-Spring 2010

University of Cincinnati

Assessor, Cincinnatus Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2008

English Tutor, Learning Assistance Center, University of Cincinnati, Summer 2007

Tutor, English Department Writing Center, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2006-Spring 2007