WILLIAMGARRETTWRIGHT

CurriculumVitæ

212 Shawnee Trl SE

Marietta, GA 30067

Cell: 706-421-3032

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EDUCATION

Ph.D.,TheUniversityofSouthernMississippi(CenterforWriters)—August 2009

  • Field of Study:Creative Writing(Poetry)andLiterature
  • DoctoralDissertation:NightFieldAnecdote:Poems.

M.A., SamHoustonStateUniversity—2004

  • Field of Study:Creative Writing(Poetry)andLiterature
  • Master’sThesis:DarkOrchard andOtherPoems.

B.A., The University ofSouthCarolina-Aiken—2002

  • Field of Study:English
  • SeniorThesis:CuredbyTwilight:Poems.

RESEARCH / TEACHING INTERESTS

Ph.D.MajorFigure:GerardManleyHopkins

TeachingWriting

Writing Poetry

Writing Nonfiction

EditingandPublishing

Poetry and Science

Poetryofthe AmericanSouth

ModernandContemporaryAmericanPoetryandFiction

Poetic Forms

Ecocriticism/Environmental Studies

AppalachianWriting

Post-apocalypticandPostlapsarianMedia(particularlyLiterature)

Translation

Collaboration

COURSES TAUGHT

English 686, Advanced Graduate Poetry Seminar, The University of Tennessee, Spring 2016

English 570, Creative Writing II: Poetry, Reinhardt University, Etowah MFA Program, Spring 2017

English 560, Creative Writing I: Poetry, Reinhardt University, Etowah MFA Program, Fall 2016

English 525, Reading Image (focus on poetry, fiction, and nonfiction), Reinhardt University,

Etowah MFA Program, Fall 2016

English 497, Advanced Creative Writing (Multi-genre), Reinhardt University, Etowah MFA Program, Summer 2016

English 102, Composition II, 2009-2013 (Many sections online at the University of Southern Mississippi)

English293,PoetryWorkshop,Fall 2008,GuestLecturer–UT-Knoxville

English101,CompositionI, Fall2008(TwoSections),USM

English333,TechnicalWriting,Spring2008(Online),USM

English102,CompositionII, Spring 2008(Online),USM

English101,CompositionI, Fall2007(Online– TwoSections),USM

Director,Sophomore Honor’sEnglishStudy:“JamesDickey’sEarlyPoetry,”Spring2005

English266-W,ReadingsinContemporaryAmericanFictionandPoetry,Spring 2005,SHSU

English165,CompositionandLiteratureII, Spring 2005, SHSU

English164,CompositionI, Fall2004 (3sections),Spring 2005(2 sections),SHSU

English266-O,IntroductiontoModernandContemporaryPoetry,Fall2004,SHSU

English368,CreativeWritingWorkshop,Fall2003,SHSU

English031-D,DevelopmentalEnglish,Fall2003,SHSU

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Creative Nonfiction

  • The Hypnophobic Dreamer: Essays on Poetry and Identity. (Iris Press, forthcoming)

Poetry (full-length books)

  • New & Selected Poems. Mercer University Press. Forthcoming, 2018.
  • Self-Portrait as Late Autumn Frost Iris Press. Forthcoming, 2017.
  • TreeHeresies.MercerUniversityPress.77pp.2015. (Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award)
  • NightFieldAnecdote.LouisianaLiterature Press. 70pp. 2011.
  • Bledsoe.TexasReviewPress.80pp.2011.
  • DarkOrchard.TexasReviewPress.56pp.(Winnerthe2005BreakthroughPoetryPrize)

(Collaborative full-length)

  • Specter Mountain. Mercer University Press. 64 pp. (with Jesse Graves), Forthcoming, 2018.
  • Creeks of the Upper South. Jacar Press and Unicorn Press (jointly published) 64 pp. (with Amy Wright),

2016

Chapbooks

  • April Creatures. Blue Horse Press, 2015.
  • Xylem & Heartwood. Finishing Line Press, 2013.
  • SleepParalysis.SteppingStonePress, 2012.

(WinneroftheSouthCarolinaPoetryInitiativeChapbookPrize,judgedbyKwameDawes)

  • TheGhostNarratives.FinishingLine Press,2008.

As Co-editor:

  • Hard Lines:RoughSouthPoetry, UniversityofSouthCarolinaPress, 2016.(co-editedwithDanielCrossTurner) (Poetry Anthology)
  • The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press, 2016(co-edited with Daniel Westover) (Poetry Anthology)
  • The Fire that Breaks:Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Legacies. (to be published by Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press, 2017.) (Literary Criticism)

As Series Editor and Volume Co-editor:

  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeI: SouthCarolina.TexasReviewPress, 2008.(co-editedwith StephenGardner)282pp.
  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeII:Mississippi.TexasReviewPress,2010.(co-editedwith StephenGardner)226pp.
  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeIII:ContemporaryAppalachia.TexasReviewPress, 2010. (co-edited withJesseGravesPaulRuffin)320 pp.(nominatedfortheWeatherfordAward,the highesthonorbestoweda bookthatconcernstheAppalachianSouth)
  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeIV:Louisiana.TexasReviewPress,2011.(Co-editedwithPaulRuffin)
  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeV: Georgia.TexasReviewPress,2012.(Co-editedwithPaulRuffin)
  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeVI:Tennessee.TexasReviewPress,2013.(Co-editedwithJesseGravesPaulRuffin).
  • TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeVII:NorthCarolina.TexasReviewPress,2014.
  • The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VIII:Texas. Texas Review Press, forthcoming.

OTHER EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Editor, Shenandoah, 2014-Present

FoundingEditor,TownCreekPoetry,2007-Present

EditorialAssistant,SouthernQuarterly,2006-2007

AssistantEditor,MississippiReview,2006

Poetry andProseFacultyAdvisor,SwirlMagazine,MontgomeryCollege,2005-2006

Editor,TheSamHoustonStateReview:2003-2004

AssistantEditor,StudiesinAmericanCulture XXIV: 2, Fall2001

AssistantEditor,TheBrokenInkLiteraryJournal,Spring 2001

EditorialAssistant,TheBrokenInkLiteraryJournal,1998-2001

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“Boyhood Caught Between Water and Blood.” Terrain.org (winner of the 7th annual poetry contest)

“Anodyne.” Prairie Schooner(print) forthcoming.

“Nocturne for Cottonmouth and Blood.” Prairie Schooner (print) forthcoming

“Fall Again” McNeese Review (print) forthcoming

“Dissolved Gods.” McNeese Review (print) forthcoming

“Dream Logic: Burning Woods,” Grist (print)

“There Is Another Dwelling Between Us.” Grist (print)

“Doorlight and Copperhead.” Louisiana Literature (print) forthcoming

“Self-Portrait as a Burning Cypress.” Louisiana Literature (print) forthcoming

“Lightning Tree.” Louisiana Literature (print) forthcoming

“I’m So Tired I Could Eat a Ghost.” Louisiana Literature (print) forthcoming

“Understory.” Kenyon Review (print) May/June 2016

“Upbringing.” Oxford American (print) Fall 2015, special music issue.

“Undermind.” Bridge Eight(print)

“Wild Pasture.” Terrain.org(online)

“Epilogue [A].” Terrain.org (online)

“Elegy for the Man in My Periphery.” Terrain.org(online)

“Gorge Storm.” Bluestem (print)

“Grief Map.” storySouth (feature) (online)

“Overburden.” Louisiana Literature (print)

“Bees.” Five Points (print)

“Blackbirds.” San Pedro River Review 6.2 (2014): 4-5. (as featured poet)

“April, Two Years Later.” San Pedro River Review 6.2 (2014): 6. (as featured poet)

“The Day as Chapel.” San Pedro River Review 6.2 (2014): 1. (as featured poet)

“Under the River.” San Pedro River Review

“The Longing for Western Distances.” San Pedro River Review 6.2 (2014): 7. (as featured poet)

“Down Sope Creek.” San Pedro River Review 6.2 (2014): 3. (as featured poet)

“April, Creature.” San Pedro River Review 6.2 (2014): 2. (as featured poet)

“Confession.” Greensboro Review.

“TheStars,theFurnace,theBloom.”(withAdamVines)KenyonReview

“TriptychontheDaysbeforeHerPassage.”CrabOrchardReview19.1 (2014): 183-185.

“Sanguinaria.”BirminghamPoetryReview(forthcoming)

“ThreeNotes onDrowning.”BirminghamPoetryReview(forthcoming)

“Jack, Snake-bitten,1937.”AshevillePoetryReview20, 1.23 (2013): 8-10

“BoyhoodTrappedBehindtheEyelids.”Asheville PoetryReview20, 1.23 (2013): 11-12

“SleepingUnderground.”CimarronReview87 (2014): 54

“Nora.”Shenandoah

“First Dayof October.”Shenandoah

“BarnGothic.”Shenandoah

“FurnaceandFox.”Terrain.org

“Tincture.”Terrain.org

“June’sAccount.”Terrain.org

“NocturneforCicada.”BroadRiverReview

“Nightmare.”BroadRiverReview

“Faith.”RockSling8.1 (2013): 31.

“Nightmare,Revised.”RATTLE(forthcoming)

selectedfromoverone thousandsubmissionsfor the“SpecialSouthernPoetsIssue”(Spring,2013)

“TheBook of Nights.”Waccamaw

“Aubade forYellowJacket.” TarRiverPoetry(Winnerof the PorterFlemingPrize forPoetry)(forthcoming)

“Prologue.”SnakeNationReview25 (2013): 53-57. (Winner of the PorterFlemingPrize forPoetry)

“SummerInsomnia.”Flycatcher: AJournalofNativeImagination

“EdgefieldCreek.”Flycatcher: A Journalof NativeImagination

“DejectiononShawneeTrail.”Flycatcher: A JournalofNativeImagination

“APath ThroughWalnutTreesAfterRain.”SouthernPoetryReview50.2 (2012): 69.

“AStudy of Descent.”SouthernPoetryReview50.2 (2012): 69.

“Aubade forthe Undetectable.”ValleyVoices:TenYearsoftheJournal12.1(2012): 30(Thispoemwas selectedbythe editorasrepresentativeof the bestpoemsthejournalhaspublishedsince itsinception.)

“InSleep,Alwaysa SmallDeath.”BirminghamPoetryReview

“InsomniainFall.”BirminghamPoetryReview

“Backyard:BackwardMeditation.”JamesDickeyReview

“HistoryoftheLast Man.”TexasReview

“Run-off.”TexasReview

“TheMilkWitch.”TexasReview

“WaterHemlock”Texas Review

“Flowersina NorthernField.”AtlantaReview18.2(2012): 9

“Silence.”PoetrySouth

“Nocturnefor Apocalypse.” PoetrySouth

“Question.”PoetrySouth

“FossilCreek.”LouisianaLiterature29.2 (2012) 129-130.

“Nightfall.”LouisianaLiterature29.2 (2012) 132-133.

“NightfallII.” LouisianaLiterature29.2 (2012) 134.

“Ghostsin Winter.”LouisianaLiterature29.2 (2012) 129.

“Essays ona NorthCarolinaFarm,1920.”XavierReview31.2(2011)

“TheFarmerWhoLovedWinter.”ConnecticutReview 34.2 (2012): 172.

“Blond Mare,IredellCounty,N.C.,1870-1896.”Birmingham PoetryReview39 (2011):126.

“Prayerto Worms.”BirminghamPoetryReview39(2011):127.

“SnakeLore.”ConnecticutReview34.1(2012):125.

“CreatureComfort.”ConnecticutReview34.1(2012): 126.

“Teleology:RecurringDream.”ConnecticutReview 34.1 (2012):127.

“LoggerheadShrike.”SouthernPoetryReview48.2(2011): 54.

“Eclogue:Drowning.”SpoonRiverPoetryReview36.2(2011):90.

“FamilyPortrait,1790.”Shenandoah61.1(2011)

“Equus and Sleep Paralysis.”Shenandoah61.1(2011)

“Spirits of OldMountain Road.”LouisianaLiterature28.2(2011):154.

“TheOtherBody.”LouisianaLiterature28.2(2011):153.

“SweetGumsnearPondat Night.” SouthernPoetryReview48.2(2011): 53.

“InDefianceofAutumn.”(reprint)ComstockReview 24.2 (2011):38.

“TheBurden.”ComstockReview24.2(2011):37.

“TheTide.”ComstockReview24.1(2010): 1.

“Bledsoe.”TexasReview31.3-4(2010):134.

“Tap Water.”TexasReview31.3-4(2010): 141.

“BeforeDawn.”TexasReview31.3-4(2010):133.

“Gravity.”TexasReview31.3-4(2010):140.

“Aubade forthe Undetectable.”ValleyVoices10.2(2010):32.

“Strays.”ValleyVoices10.2(2010): 33.

“TrumpetCreeper.”PoetrySouth10(2010): 43.

“NightmaresfortheSeasons.”PoetrySouth10(2010): 47

“White “Fox and Sleep Paralysis.”EpochCornellU.

“Wolf Spiderand SleepParalysis.”Devil’sLake Uof Wisconsin-Madison

“Winter Oaks.” TheMidwest Quarterly59.1(2010): 377.

“RabidCat.”TarRiverPoetry 49.2 (2010): 38.

“ThePotato.” FloydCountyMoonshine2.3(2010):26.

“InDefianceofAutumn.”FloydCountyMoonshine 2.3 (2010):27.

“NocturnefortheSecondDeath.”SmartishPace16(2009): 42.

“BurningHouse.”SmartishPace16(2009):43.

“False August.”JournalofTruth and ConsequenceMay 2009.

“TheEaves(SecondVariation).”JournalofTruthandConsequenceMay2009.

“TrumpetCreeper VariationsIII.”JournalofTruthand Consequence May 2009.

“ChernobylEclogue.”AGNI69(2009):191.

“TheCurersofFolly.”TexasReview 29.3/4(2008):137.

“TheEaves.”TexasReview 29.3/4(2008):138.

“HypotheticalBloom.”TexasReview29.3/4(2008):139.

“NightFieldAnecdote.”TexasReview29.3/4(2008): 141.

“TheEscape.”NewSouth1.2 (2008):55.(FinalistfortheNewSouthWritingAward)

“Ferns.”SouthernPoetryReview46.1(2008):54.

“TheOtherBody.”ProductTwenty-two(2008): 86.

“Hell.”IndianaReview30.1(2008): 79.

“Blue PearandSleepParalysis.”ColoradoReview35.1(2008):235.

“PeachTrees,SuffusedwithPesticides.”BeloitPoetryJournal

“Bluebird.” Grist:TheJournal forWriters1 (2008):84.(University ofTennessee-Knoxville)

“Ghost Water.”Grist:TheJournalforWriters1 (2008): 85.

“TrumpetCreeper VariationsII.”Grist:TheJournalforWriters1(2008): 81.

“TrumpetCreeper VariationsIV.”Grist:TheJournalfor Writers1(2008): 82

“PrescribedFire.”NewOrleansReviewSummer2007.

“TrumpetCreeper Variations.”NorthAmericanReviewNov./Dec.2006

“DeadDog.” CimarronReview151(2005):96.

“Killer ina WinterPastoral.”Pacific Review23(2005): 15.

“Night,Yonce'sField.”Pacific Review23 (2005):14.

“HereTheyAre,Beautiful andAlone.”PoetLore99.1/2(2004):14-15.

“Cruelty.”PoetLore99.1/2(2004): 32.

“Empathy.” Borderlands:TexasPoetryReview 23(2004):123-24.

“InEnvyofanIceStorm.”RedOwlXIX (2004):15.

“BrotherVirgilCatchestheSpirit atChrist'sFullGospeland Signsof theDarkDefeated.”

StorySouth:TheBestfromNewSouthWriters(2004):32.“Benfield.”YemasseeX.2(2003): 96.

“Dreamingof MyParents.”TexasReview XXIV.1/2(2003):125.

“JohnfoxandAutumn.” TexasReviewXXIV.1/2(2003):123-24.

“TheEnduringMusic.”Avocet: A JournalofNaturePoems(2003): 7.

“EmbersThrownUp Shining.”Avocet: A JournalofNaturePoems (2003).

“Turning.”BrokenInk(2002)

“Insomnia.”BrokenInk(1999):34-38.(Winnerof theBrokenInkMillennium Award)

“Balloon.”BrokenInk.(1998):23-24.

“OneReasonforRain.”Calliope23.1(1997): 22.

“TinIceSun.”JulyReviewXVI.1(1996): 37.

ENGLISHTRANSLATIONSFROMGERMAN

Stadler,Ernst.“Dämmerung in derStadt.”(“DuskintheCity”)TampaReview

---.“Dämmerung.”(“Twilight.”)AntiochReview70.4(2012):723.

---.“KleineStadt.”(“SmallCity.”)InternationalPoetryReview38.1(2012):10-11.

---.“Untergang.”(“Downfall.”) InternationalPoetryReview38.1(2012):12-13.

---.“Worte.”(“Words.”)InternationalPoetryReview38.1 (2012):12-13.

Trakl, Georg.“DeProfundis.”NimrodInternational54.1 (2010):98-99.

---.“Abendlied.”(“EveningSong.”)TampaReview 42(2011): 42.

---.“DieSchwermut.”(“Sadness.”)TampaReview 42(2011): 43.

---.“MelancholiedesAbends.”(“TheEvening’sMelancholy.”)TampaReview42 (2011):44.

---.“Verfall.”(“Decay.”)TampaReview42 (2011):45.

---.“ZuAbendMeinHerz.” (“MyHeart atEvening.”)TampaReview42(2011): 46.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

“The Beauty of Sculpted Dispossession.” Asheville Poetry Review

“An Addiction to Sound.” Shenandoah

“Books and Beasts: The Story of Bobby, a Modern Autodidact.” 2 Paragraphs

autodidact/ April 17, 2014

“Beyond Geography: Why I’m a Southern Poet.” Rattle

ARTICLES,INTERVIEWS,REVIEWS

“Southern Instress: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetic Inheritance of James Dickey.” James Dickey Review

Feature: “On Rose McLarney’s ‘Winter Hard.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On Robert Wrigley’s ‘Becoming the Lake.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On Brian Brodeur’s ‘Little B.B. in a Prospect of Flowers.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On Sandy Longhorn’s ‘The Tonnage of a Toxic Secret.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On Matthew Wimberley’s ‘In the Morning, the Spirit Begins to Speak.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On Kathryn Stripling Byer’s ‘Trawling for Silences.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On Alison Hawthorne Deming’s ‘Afterlife.’” Shenandoah

Feature: “On David Bottoms’s ‘A Small Remembrance.’” Shenandoah

Review: “Don Share’s Union.” Oxford American

Interview:“AnInterviewwithR.T.Smith,” TheSouthernQuarterly

Review:TheAnatomyofMelancholybyRobertWrigley.Shenandoah

Review:TheCompletePoemsofJamesDickeyed.WardBriggs.Shenandoah

Review:HarlowbyDavidArmand.Shenandoah

Review:Bone-Hollow,TruebyJack B. Bedell.Shenandoah

Review:Throughthe Second SkinbyDerekSheffield.Shenandoah

Review:TheFortunateErabyArthurSmith.Shenandoah

Interview/ReviewSpecialFeature:Feature: “CaseyClabough: ManofLetters,Manof Earth.”Interview

followed by an extendedreviewofClabough’snovelConfederado(IngallsPublishing,2012).OxfordAmerican

Interview/ReviewSpecialFeature:“RobertMorgan:TheTarheelWordsmith.”Interviewfollowedby areviewof Morgan’sTerroir(Penguin,2011).OxfordAmerican

ReviewofRoadScatterbySandraMeek.OxfordAmerican

ReviewofWe AlmostDisappearbyDavidBottoms.OxfordAmerican

ReviewofConfederado: ANovelbyCaseyClabough.Shenandoah

ReviewofTheBranches,theAxe,theMissing byCharlottePence. TheRumpus

Foreword.BrokenHallelujah:TheSelectedPoemsofJackButler.Huntsville:TexasReviewP.

Foreword.TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeIV: Louisiana.Huntsville:TexasReviewP, 2011.

ReviewofCraveRadiancebyElizabethAlexander. Redactions: PoetryandPoetics.Summer2011.

ReviewofInvisibleMinkbyJessieJaneshek.TownCreekPoetry.4.2(2011): 2.ReviewofHorseandRiderbyMelissaRange.TownCreekPoetry.4.2(2011):2.“InterviewwithJosephBathanti.”Town CreekPoetry.4.2(2011): 1.

“GivingVoice:AReviewofAllofYourMessagesHaveBeenErasedbyVivianShipley.”NewLetters

“‘Because WeNeed a ContainerforChaos’:AReviewofWhyWe MakeGardensbyJeanne

Larsen.”JamesDickeyReview

Foreword.TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeIII:ContemporaryAppalachia.Huntsville:TexasReviewP, 2010.

“‘Beautifulina WaythatReturns’:AReview ofTwoBooks by JonathanJohnson.”(Reviews)

TownCreekPoetry.4.1(2010): 4.

“InterviewwithJonathanJohnson.”TownCreekPoetry.4.1(2010): 1.

ReviewofTakingtheSwitchbackbyStephenGardner.TownCreekPoetry.3.2(2009): 1.

“InterviewwithJackButler.” TownCreekPoetry3.2(2009): 1.

“InterviewwithCharlotte Pence.”Town CreekPoetry3.1(2009):1.

“APoeticsof Emptiness:ThePoetryofFivePoints11.3” LunaParkReview2008.

“InterviewwithDanAlbergotti.”TownCreekPoetry2.2(2008): 1.

“InterviewwithJesseGraves.”TownCreekPoetry2.1 (2008): 1.“InterviewwithStephenGardner.”TownCreekPoetry

1.2 (2007): 1.

“InterviewwithJakeAdamYork.”Town CreekPoetry1.1 (2007): 1.

ReviewofFollowingtheDayby DanMorris.Redactions:Poetryand PoeticsFall2007.

“Mr. Creative Writing:Reflectionson GeorgeGarrett.”Phoebe: AJournalofLiteratureand theArts33.1(2004):48-54.

“EcologicalConscienceinHopkins’s‘God’sGrandeur’.”Academic ExchangeQuarterly(2003):488-502.

ReviewofSweetConfluence:NewandSelected Poems,bySusanLudvigson.TexasReview

XXIV.1/2 (2003):138-41.

“Hardy andOwenonWorldWar I: ‘TheManHe Killed’and‘Dulce etDecorumEst'.”TheOswaldReview: ANationalJournalofUndergraduateResearch and Criticism intheDisciplineofEnglishIV(2002):93-107.

“Seeing aWorldinMotion:TheTropisticForceofTheodoreRoethkeandSixPoemsintheGreenhouseSequence.”Social SciencesandHumanitiesJournalXXII.1(2001):48-54.

MANUSCRIPTS / PROJECTS IN PLANNINGSTAGES

  • “PhantomManners:ContemporarySouthernGothicFictionbyWomen”
  • “DerAufbruch:GedichtevonErnstStadler”(“TheDeparture:PoemsbyErnstStadler”)as co-translatorwithMartinSheehan,Ph.D.
  • “Blight” (anovel)
  • VolumesVIIIthroughXVIofTheSouthernPoetryAnthology
  • “Specter Mountain” (a co-written book of poems with Jesse Graves)

SPECIAL LECTURES (TEACHING EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE FULL COURSES)

Commissioned Lecture on Deep Imagism, Reinhardt University, July 2016.

Commissioned Lecture on James Dickey, Reinhardt University, July 2016.

Elizabeth Cartwright Coker Visiting Lecturer in Poetry, Converse College, September 22, 2015.

Commissioned Lecture and Reading, Washington and Lee University, November 2, 2015.

Commissioned Workshop and Lecture on Contemporary Poetry, Georgia Writers Association, April 18, 2015

Commissioned Lecture on Writing Poetry, Furman University, March 30, 2015

Commissioned Lecture on Editorial Philosophy, Kennesaw State University, March 26, 2015

Commissioned Master Class and Tutorials with Graduate Students, Eastern Washington University, February 6, 2015

CommissionedMasterClass onPoetry,EastTennesseeState University,April3, 2014.

CommissionedMasterClass onPoetry,LincolnMemorialUniversity,2014Mountain HeritageLiteraryFestival

“RoethkeandHis Legacy”: APoetryWorkshopandSeminarHybrid(Leader)– March15 toApril29, 2014

“TheArtofSubmission:PublishingforBeginners”: APoetryWorkshop(Leader)– October 7 toDecember8

CommissionedMasterClass onPoetry,MillsapsCollege,November18,2013

CommissionedReadingand Workshop,GeorgiaRegentsUniversity, October22, 2013

CommissionedMasterClass onPoetry,The Universityof West Georgia,September 16, 2013

InvitedGuestPoetryWorkshopLeader, East TennesseeStateUniversity,October 2013

InvitedGuestLecturer:AmericanPoetry,EastTennesseeState University,October2013

Writers’CircleCommissionedLecturer– “SoundTexturesin ContemporaryPoetry.”–Hayesville,NC –

August10, 2013.

“SpringCleaning”:APoetryWorkshop(Leader)– March toApril 2013,10members

“Promptsfor Poetry”:APoetryWorkshop(Leader)– FebruarytoMarch2013, 8 members

CommunityPoetryWorkshopLeader–Atlanta,Fall2012, 12 members.

Writers’CircleFeaturedLecturer/ WorkshopLeader–Hayesville,NC– October13, 2012HybridJamesWrightSeminar/PoetryWorkshopLeader–Atlanta– JulythroughSeptember,2012.

HybridJamesDickeySeminar/PoetryWorkshopLeader,JanuarythroughApril,2012)

AtlantaAreaPoetryWorkshopLeader– monthly,ongoingworkshopsdesignedforinterestedpoetsin Atlantaand

surroundingcommunities(usually 5 to 7 participantsperworkshop),SummerthroughFallof2011.

Poetry Workshop Leader (twoworkshops)/ Presenter/ Reader,The1stAnnualTurnerCassityLiteraryFestival,July8-10, 2011.

ACADEMICPOSITIONS

Core Creative Writing Faculty, Reinhardt University, Etowah Valley MFA Program, Summer 2016-Present

The University of Tennessee Writer in Residence (Poetry) for Spring 2016 Semester, January-May, 2016

Visiting Faculty Member, Converse College Low Residency MFA, 2016

Guest Lecturer, Advanced Poetry Writing, Eastern Washington University

Guest Lecturer, Advanced Poetry Writing, Lincoln Memorial University, 2014.

GuestLecturer,PoetryWriting,EastTennessee State University,2013;2014.

GuestLecturer,Graduate-LevelPoetryWorkshop,TheUniversity ofWestGeorgia, 2013.

GuestLecturer,Advanced PoetryWriting,MillsapsCollege,2013.

OnlineCompositionInstructor,University ofSouthernMississippi,Summer2009-2012

GuestLecturer,PoetryWriting I,University of Tennessee-Knoxville,October2008

CenterforWritersExcellenceTeachingFellow,Fall2006-Summer 2009,USM

ResearchAssistant,Fall 2006,University ofSouthernMississippi

WritingTutor,Fall2006-Spring 2007,Universityof SouthernMississippi

MasterTutor(IncludingESLtutoring)2004-2006,MontgomeryCollege

AdjunctInstructor,2004-2005,SamHoustonStateUniversity

TeachingAssistant,2002-2004,SamHoustonState University

WritingConsultant,2000-2002,UniversityofSouthCarolinaAiken

Post-DocPoetryWorkshopLeader,Summer2009-Present

AWARDS /ACHIEVEMENTS

Winner of the 2016 Terrain.org Prize in Poetry (judged by Eamon Grennan)

Nominated for the AWP George Garrett Award for Community Service to Literature (four nominations)—winner to

be announced in 2017

Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year, 2016

Pushcart Nomination from Board of Directors within the Pushcart Organization, 2016.

Winning Editor for The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia, considered by the Georgia Center for the Book as “A Book all Georgians Should Read.” 2015.

Best of the Net Nomination for “Elegy with Dissonance between Earth and the Self” Blue Mountain Review 2016

Best of the Net Nomination for “Grief Map,” storySouth 2015

Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Furnace and Fox,” terrain.org 2014

PushcartPrizeNominationfor“EdgefieldCreek,”Flycatcher: AJournalofNativeImagination.

2013.

The2012 RonRashAward inPoetry:Honorable Mentionfor“Nightmare,Revised.”(Judgedblind)The2012 RonRash Awardin Poetry:Finalist for“Nocturne forCicada.”(Judgedblind)

Winnerof the PorterFlemingLiteraryAwardfor “Prologue”and“AubadeforYellowjacket”($1,500 prize).Forcontext:Thiscontest isjudgedblind andis opentopoetsfromGA,SC,NC,FL, andAL. I submittedtwobatchesof threepoems;thejudge,Molly BrodakofEmoryUniversity,selectedonepoemfromeachof my twobatchesfor boththe1stand2ndprizes.

FinalistfortheCrabOrchardSeriesOpenCompetitionAwardinPoetryforNightFieldAnecdote,2011 (Tenfinalistsoutoffive hundredmanuscriptsubmissions)

Winnerof theSouthCarolinaPoetryInitiativeChapbookContest(USCPress / SteppingStones

Press),2010

ProfessionalGrowthFellowship,TheUniversityof SouthernMississippi,Spring 2008ProfessionalGrowthFellowship,

TheUniversityof SouthernMississippi,Fall2007HowardandHelenBahr GraduateEssayAward,University ofSouthernMississippi,2006-2007

ProfessionalGrowthFellowship,The Universityof SouthernMississippi,Spring 2007

BahrResearchAward,TheUniversity ofSouthernMississippi, 2007

ResearchTravelGrant,TheUniversity ofVirginia, 2007

USMCenterforWritersExcellenceTeachingFellowship, 2006-2009

Best New Poets of2006Nominee,TheUniversityPress of Virginia

TexasReviewBreakthroughPoetryPrize for DarkOrchard, afirstcollection

CreativeWritingAward,SamHoustonState UniversityGraduateColloquium, 2003-2004

Recipient of the JohnW.ThomasonScholarshipinWritingforthe2003-2004Year (SHSU)

CreativeWritingAward,SamHoustonState UniversityGraduateColloquium,2002-2003

TwoSHSUOutstandingWriter Awardsfor“The Keats-TennysonParadox:

Victorian MedievalismandEkphrasisin‘TheLadyofShalott’”and SixPoems,theSHSUGraduateColloquium Winnerfor2002-2003

CRLAMasterTutorCertification(highestobtainable),2003

BrokenInk LiteraryContestWinner,2002

OswaldCreativeWritingAward,2002

USCAStudentEmployeeoftheYear,(Nominated byUSCAfacultyfor workintheWritingCenter),2002

Essay PortfolioExemplaryPerformance Award,2001BrokenInkMillenniumLiteraryAward, 1999

CreativeWritingExcellence Award,USCColumbia,1999

CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS / SPECIALINVITATIONS

PanelMediator,“TheSouthernPoetryAnthology.”SAMLA.November,2013.

PanelMediator,“IntroducingTheSouthernPoetry Anthology,VolumeVI: Tennessee,”October,2013. TheSouthernFestival of Books.Nashville,TN.

FeaturedPresenter,“‘Out of theHumanTown’”:RevisitingJamesWright’sLyricMoment”SAMLA,SpecialSession:TheStateofContemporaryLyricPoetry,November6, 2011

FeaturedFaculty,Turner Cassity LiteraryFestival,DouglasCounty,GA(July 9-10, 2011)

Guest Lecturer,FurmanUniversity,“PoetryfromtheInside,”November23, 2010

GuestWorkshop Leader,FurmanUniversity,AdvancedPoetryWorkshop,November 23, 2010

KeynoteSpeakerfortheSouthCarolinaBook Festival,2010:“Tribute toStephenGardner.”

FeaturedPoetforTheMagnoliaQuarterly.GulfCoastWritersAssociation.Spring 2010

Presenter,“RootsAwakeninMyHead: NatureandDesireinSeamusHeaney’s EarlyBooks.”

LouisianaLiteratureConference.April 2009.

Presenter,“The ‘Hay-TunnelDark’:EcologicalGothicisminJamesDickey’s“’TheSheepChild.’”(co-authoredwithMichelleNichols)MississippiPhilologicalAssociation.January2009.

Presenter,“A.R.Ammons’sGarbage andtheNecessarySilenceofEcologicalConsciousness.”Faculty/GraduateResearchColloquium.The University of SouthernMississippi.November20, 2008.

Presenter,“The Will toArt:NietzscheanUndercurrentsin‘Sailing to Byzantium.’”TheUniversity ofSouthernMississippiGraduateResearchSymposium.April 11, 2008.

Presenter,“‘ThisMost UnnaturalStrife’:WordsworthandtheNaturesof Maturation.”RemappingIntellectualSpaces.IntermountainGraduateStudiesConference.UtahStateUniversity.April 4, 2008.

Presenter,“‘ASilenceisLiving’:GeorgTrakl'sQuietApocalypseandthe BarthesianIdeal.”VisionsofSound:The AuralinGermanLiteratureandHistory.Department of GermanicLanguagesandLiteratures,University of Virginia.February2008.

Presenter,“GeorgTrakl’sSchweigen:‘Silence’ asKey to theNarrativeStructure.”GermanPoetry.M/MLACleveland,Ohio.November 8-11,2007.

GuestLecturer,specialinvitationtospeakinan undergraduatepoetrycreative writingworkshopat the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.October2007.

Presenter,“SouthernInstress:GerardManleyHopkinsandthe PoeticInheritanceofJamesDickey.”SouthernWriters,SouthernWriting.University ofMississippi.July 2007.

Presenter,“GeorgTrakl’sNaturalEschatology:Silence asProphetintheRobertBly/ JamesWrightTranslation.”PropheticDiscoursefromAmos to Zarathustra:Onthe UsesandMisuses ofProphecy.Department of GermanicLanguagesandLiteratures,University ofVirginia.February2007.

Presenter,“TutoringPoetics.”Lecture fortheWritingTutors ofMontgomeryCollege.

June,2006.

Presenter,“Waysto ApproachandWriteAboutPoetry.”ELC S.M.A.R.T.SeminarSeries.

MontgomeryCollege.April5, 2006.

Presenter,“DevelopingtheEditor’sCriticalApparatusandanOpenMind:PublicationStandardsandPracticesof SmallUniversityLiteraryMagazines.”CommissionedLecture forSwirlMagazine’sStaff at MontgomeryCollege,Conroe,TX.February,2006.

InterviewerandWriter, “TheSouthernLiteratureFestival:HonoringtheLifeandWorksofGeorgeGarrett.”(withBrandonWicks)October 2-4, 2003Knoxville,Tennessee.InterviewedDaveSmith,R.H.W.Dillard,RichardBausch,etal fortheaforementionedPhoebearticle,entitled“Mr.CreativeWriting:ReflectionsonGeorgeGarrett.”

Presenter,“CollaborativeNonverbalCommunicationwithPosturalEchoes.”SamHoustonState UniversityWritingCenterWorkshop,Spring 2003.

Presenter,“Essay ExamStrategies,”withScottPeavy.SamHoustonState UniversityWritingCenterTrainingSession,Spring 2003.

Presenter,“NonverbalCommunication.”SoutheasternWritingCentersAssociation.AuburnUniversity. Spring2001.

Presenter,“ProfessionalGrowththroughtheWritingCenterJournal,”withMelissaMaypole.

InternationalWritingCentersAssociation.SavannahCollegeof ArtandDesign.Fall2001.

SelectedfortheSouthCarolinaGovernor’sSchool inCreative Arts(Specialization:Writing;Main Instructors:Fiction—GeorgeSingleton;Poetry—SusanLudvigson)Summer1996.

ARTICLES,INTERVIEWS,REVIEWSABOUTMY WORK

Niederlander, Carol. Review of Tree Heresies. Pleiades.2016

Bassett, Win. Review of Tree Heresies. The Los Angeles Review of Books.2016

Watkins, Catherine. Review of Tree Heresies. Fall 2015. The Shining Rock Review.

Campbell, Chloe. Interview. Greensboro Review Winter 2014

Julius, Dean. Review of Night Field Anecdote.storySouth,Fall2014.

Brackett,CharmainZ.“PoetsofSouthCarolinawillreadworksinanthology.”CarolinaChronicleJanuary 27,2008.FrontPage.

“Dark Orchard byWilliamWright.”Publisher’sWeeklyAugust 8,2005.200.Davidson,Phebe.

“The Ghost Narratives.”SmartishPace 2 April2009.

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---.“Good ThingsinSmallPackages.” YemasseeFall2009.

Freeman,John.“TheChildWithin:AReview ofWilliamWright’sBledsoe.”ForthcominginTheBirmingham PoetryReview.

Hallex,E.C.“Gardner andWright:ReunitedthroughTheSouthernPoetryAnthology.”USCAMagazine2008.42-43.

Mendoza,Daniel.“Bledsoe.”ColoradoReview Rev.CenterforLiteraryPublishing.2012.

Olson,Ted.“TheSouthernPoetryAnthology,VolumeIII:AnimportantnewbookforSouthernliterature”RapidRiverMagazine.December2010.

Patterson,Deborah.“MontgomeryCollegePoetHas theWrightStuff.”LoneStarCollege:Montgomery. 27July2005.

Ripatrazone,Nick.“Review ofBledsoeby WilliamWright.”TheJames DickeyReview.

(Forthcoming,Spring2012).

---.“Review ofNightFieldAnecdote.SmartishPace.(Forthcoming)Sharkey,Lee.“QuickeningtheSenses.”

TheCafé Review.

Spear,Jody.“DarkOrchard.”TheMaineOrganic FarmerGardenerAutumn2008. 61.Stone,SuzanneR.“Get asneak

peekat poetryanthology.”AikenStandardJanuary 25,2008.3A.

“WillWrightHas a WaywithWords.”Skirt!Magazine July2005. 45.

Wood,Larry.“NewAnthologyfeaturesCarolinawriters.”TheTimesFebruary 21, 2008. 3.

SERVICETOTHEPROFESSION

Judge for the Adrienne Bond Award, Mercer University Press, 2016.

Judge for the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, 2015.

PreliminaryJudgefortheNorthCarolinaPoetLaureate,2013.

Final JudgefortheEchoes Images poetrycontest,NortheastStateCommunityCollegeBlountville,TN,2013.

Final JudgefortheEchoes Images poetrycontest,NortheastStateCommunityCollegeBlountville,TN,2012.

“GraduateCaffeineandSugarNight”Participant(Tovolunteermytutoringhelpforgraduatestudents ofall

disciplinesengagedin seminarpapers)

EnglishGraduateOrganizationSilentAuctionCommitteeMember,Fall2008(Toraise fundsforgraduatestudentsin

the EnglishDepartmentatthe University ofSouthernMississippi)

EnglishGraduateOrganizationUSMFootballSalesBoothCoordinator,Fall2008 (TosellUSM-branded

merchandisetofundtravelforEnglishDepartmentgraduatestudents)

EnglishGraduateOrganizationLiteratureConferenceCommitteeMember,Fall2008(Tosupport andhelporganize

the inauguralnationalgraduatestudentconferenceatUSM)

“FirstYearExperience.”DiscussionGroup Leaderfor Hurston’sTheirEyesWereWatchingGod

for incomingfreshmen,Summer2008

“Caffeine and SugarNight.”VolunteerTutoringforENG 203(WorldLiterature)Students,USMWritingCenter.Fall2006and Spring 2007

TexasBook FairTableManagerforSamHoustonState University.Spring2003.

READINGS

Belhaven University, Scheduled for April 2017.

Middle Georgia State University, Scheduled for March 2017.

Louisiana Festival of Books, Scheduled for October 2016

Southern Festival of the Book, Scheduled for October 2016

Berry College, Scheduled for October 2016

Reinhardt University, Reading with David Bottoms, July 16, 2016

Reinhardt University, Reading with William Walsh, July 6, 2016

The University of Tennessee, The Department of English Writer in Residence Reading, February 22, 2016

Washington & Lee University, November 2, 2015

Virginia Tech, Fall 2016, Scheduled.

Converse College, September 22, 2015. (As Elizabeth Cartwright Coker Visiting Writer).

Featured Reading, The Decatur Book Festival, September 5, 2015

Malaprops Bookstore and Café, Asheville, NC, July 5, 2015

Eastern Washington University, February 2015

Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, Tennessee, October 2014

Lincoln Memorial University (Featured Faculty) June 2014

East TennesseeStateUniversity(FeaturedReader)April2014

Millsaps College,November,2013

GeorgiaRegentsUniversity,October,2013

East TennesseeStateUniversity,October,2013

TheUniversity ofWestGeorgia,September,2013

FeaturedReader.“One Good Place.”ForFlycatcher: A JournalofNativeImagination.July25, 2013

FeaturedReaderPresenter(withCollin Kelly)forTheGeorgiaCenterfortheBookSouthern