EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Literature with Creative Dissertation, University of Georgia, 2017 Dissertation: Helen or My Hunger
Committee: Ed Pavlic (chair), Andrew Zawacki, Magdalena Zurawski
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry): University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012 Committee: Dara Wier (chair), Peter Gizzi, James Haug
B.A., English, Creative Writing concentration, College of Charleston, 2008 magna cum laude, Graduate of Honors College
Doctoral Concentrations:
Poetry sequences and hybrid forms
Women writers, LGBTQA+ writers
American literature, with a focus on multicultural literatures
20th and 21st century American experimental literature and poetics Modernism: literary, cultural, and comparative
Memory Studies, Trauma Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Teaching Expertise:
Poetry: craft, theory, revision, sequencing
Creative nonfiction and the lyric essay
Editing and publishing, document production and design
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Young Harris College
Director of Creative Writing, 2019-Present
Oversee curriculum, course rotations, and budget
Create and implement annual departmental assessment report and plan Introduced new minor in Creative Writing
Courses taught:
Creative Writing Across the Genres (5 sections)
Form and Theory of Poetry (3 sections)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (2 sections)
Advanced Poetry Workshop (3 sections)
Special Topics: Poetry and Social Justice (1 section)
Creative Writing Teaching Internship (1 section)
Creative Writing Senior Project (2 sections)
First Year Composition (1 section)
Composition and Literature (2 sections)
The Black Death: Pandemic in the Middle Ages (Honors Seminar) (1 section)
2019-Present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing, Grand Valley State University
Courses taught:
Introduction to Creative Writing (9 sections) Strategies in Writing (5 sections)
English Online Faculty, Southern New Hampshire University
Courses taught:
English Composition I (25 sections) English Composition II (5 sections) Poetry Writing Workshop (1 section)
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Georgia
Courses taught:
Introduction to Creative Writing: Memory, Myth, Discovery (2 sections) Writing with Literature Special Topics: Memory Matters (2 sections) American Literature Since 1865 (1 section)
First-Year Composition I (9 sections)
First-Year Composition II: Writing with Literature (2 sections)
Writing Center Consultant, University of Georgia
Grad. Teaching Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Courses taught:
Introduction to College Writing (6 sections)
Honors Introduction to College Writing (2 sections)
Introduction to Creative Writing (2 sections)
Graduate Teaching Assistant for Junior Writing Seminar in Kinesiology (1 section)
PUBLICATIONS
Full-Length Books
Soldier On, Poetry (Tupelo Press, 2015)
Helen or My Hunger, Poetry/Lyric Essay (YesYes Books, 2020)
Chapbooks
Expeditions to the Polar Seas, Poetry (Sixth Finch Books, 2013) If You’re a Bear, I’m a Bear, Poetry (H_NGM_N BKS, 2013)
Co-Edited Volumes
A Guide to First-Year Writing at Grand Valley State University, Kendall Hunt, 2018.
Manuscripts in Submission
2017-2019
2014-Present
2012-2017
2013 2009-2012
Mountain Amnesia (Poetry, Full-Length)
Finalist: National Poetry Series, Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book Prize, Akron Poetry Prize, Colorado Poetry Prize, Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award (Persea Books), Kathryn A. Morton Prize (Sarabande)
Anthologies
Best New Poets 2012 (judge Matthew Dickman), 2012
For Penelope: a Factory Hollow Press Anthology (“Houdini Poem,” “A Way to Keep: Notes on Risk and Chance”), 2012
Selected Poems
“The Divide.” Poetry Society of America, May 2022 (Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award).
“Wind Shear.” South Carolina Review Volume 54.2, Spring 2022.
“I See the Moon (after Sheila).” Jai-Alai Magazine Final Issue, Summer 2021.
“The Responsible,” “Jocasta, As I Hope She Wore It.” Birdcoat Quarterly, Issue 5, 2021.
“Hand Me My Leather,” “Pattern of Behavior.” The Adroit Journal, Issue 31, 2020.
“Milk Teeth.” Guernica, December 2019.
“Pallinode.” BOAAT, Summer 2019.
“Grief Vectors.” Crazyhorse, Issue 91, 2019.
“The Definition,” “Blueprint (III).” Witness, Spring 2019.
“Void Poses.” Cotton Xenomorph, Spring 2019.
“Chester Street, Holding Court,” “Salvage Operation.” Wildness (Platypus Press), Spring 2019.
“Blueprint (I),” “Blueprint (II).” Conduit, Spring 2019.
“Dummy Prayer.” Tin House Online, Fall 2018.
“Hunger is the Analog” (Pushcart Prize Nominee). Nightjar Review, Fall 2018.
“from Helen or My Hunger.” Muse A/ Journal, Fall 2018.
“from Helen or My Hunger.” New South Journal, Spring 2018.
“A Rank, Bleak Devotion.” Foundry, Fall 2017.
“from Helen or My Hunger.” Ghost Proposal, Summer 2017.
“They Make Things Easier Here So That Other Things Get Harder.” Cosmonauts Avenue, 2017.
“Compulsion/Procedure,” “The Heaviest Dirt Rings.” Smoking Glue Gun, Spring 2017.
“from Helen or My Hunger.” Bennington Review, Fall 2016.
“from Helen or My Hunger.” TIMBER, Summer 2016.
“from Grief Vectors.” Hot Metal Bridge, Spring 2016.
“Yes, But More Animals.” Verse Daily (reprint), Fall 2015.
“Smile, Eidolon (from Helen or My Hunger).” Gulf Coast, Spring 2015.
“Dew Value.” Phantom Limb, Spring 2015.
“Elegy with Photostat.” FLAG + VOID, Spring 2015.
“Twin Vessels (from Helen or My Hunger),” “Middling (from Helen or My Hunger).” jubilat, Fall 2014. “Elegy with a Hangover and The X-Files.” Everyday Genius, Fall 2014.
“from Helen or My Hunger.” Nightblock, Summer 2014.
“Antigone Loop (from Helen or My Hunger). The Volta, Summer 2014.
“The Silver World,” “Animal Spotting.” Columbia Poetry Review, Summer 2014.
“Mayday.” Colorado Review, Spring 2014.
“LAGEOS Satellite,” “Future Possibilities of Radio Waves,” “Sleep.” Whiskey Island, Spring 2014. “Cal, have you ever gone through caves?” Banango Street, Spring 2014.
“After H.D. and Eidolon (from Helen or My Hunger).” B O D Y, Spring 2014.
“Lemon Evening Warning,” “The Doldrums.” Sixth Finch, Spring 2014.
“The Milky Way is a Snowy White.” Ampersand Review, Spring 2014.
“Expeditions to the Polar Seas.” Guernica, 2013.
“Solar Divide,” “Savannah.” Pinwheel, 2013.
“Something Like a Stevie Nicks Documentary,” “Points of Contact.” Sink Review, 2013. “Mobiles” (Pushcart Prize Nominee). Parcel, 2013.
“Spring and Other Strange Places,” “Welcome Room.” Forklift, Ohio, 2013. “Houdini Poem,” “Cilantro Blue.” Volt, 2013.
“Pulsar.” Better: Culture and Lit, 2013.
“Earth in Space,” “Mapping the World.” Octopus, 2013.
“Crow’s Nest,” “from Observatories.” Diode, 2012.
“Ojalá,” “Not Keeping Now.” Birdfeast, 2012.
“Sigourney Weaver” (Contest Winter). Columbia: A Journal, 2012. “God Bless Svalbard.” Sixth Finch, 2012.
“The Most Beautiful Bibles.” Denver Quarterly, 2011.
“Questions of Comets,” “Earth Movements.” H_NGM_N, 2011.
Creative Nonfiction
“The Book of Moths.” Mississippi Review, Summer 2022.
“The Helen Loops (from Helen or My Hunger).” Entropy, Spring 2018. “On Silence and Throat Singing.” Ghost Proposal Letterbox, Fall 2017. “‘Blood Roses’ by Tori Amos.” Entropy, 2016.
Essays, Interviews, Reviews
“An Interview with Gale Marie Thompson on Helen or My Hunger.” Scene4, Spring 2021.
“A Poet and Novelist Discuss the Literary Allure of Outer Space” with Zach Powers. Lit Hub, 2019. “Reading Ekstasis: Tracking Contradictions, Sustaining Incongruences.” American Poetry Review,
Summer 2018.
“In Conversation with BR.” Bennington Review, Fall 2017.
“Five Questions.” Foundry, Fall 2017.
“Gale Marie Thompson on Jellyfish.” Poetry Society of American, Spring 2017.
“Survival is Ramshackle, as is Tolerance: An Interview with Kamden Hilliard.” The Rumpus, 2017. “Where Our Memories Settle: An Interview with Gale Marie Thompson.” New Orleans Review, 2015. “Serial Poems, Stevie Nicks, and the Arecibo Message.” NPM Daily, 2014.
“Elizabeth Bishop: Repetition and Loss.” Banango Lit, 2014.
“Review of Flood Bloom by Caroline Cabrera.” Southeast Review, 2013.
“Why Start Publishing a Literary Journal?” Litbridge, 2012.
Reviews
“Eikon/Eidolon: A Review of Helen or My Hunger.” Gregory Luce. Scene4, Spring 2021.
“Poets on Poets: Celebrating New Collections.” Jaime Zuckerman. Kenyon Review Online, Spring 2020. “‘This, being absorbed’: Review of Soldier On.” Heavy Feather Review, 2016.
“Review of Soldier On.” Jenny Drai. Rain Taxi, 2015.
“Review of Soldier On.” Carleen Tibbetts. American Microreview & Interviews, 2015.
“Review of Soldier On.” Dara Cerv. Sink Review, 2015.
“Online Poetry Mag Provokes and Entertains with Urgent Subject Matter: Review of Jellyfish
Magazine.” The Review Review, 2015. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2022 Winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award (“The Divide,” chosen by Jenny Xie)
2022 Runner-up, Mississippi Review Prize 2022 in Creative Nonfiction (“The Book of Moths”) 2021 Finalist for Big Other Book Award for Poetry (post-publication prize for Helen or My Hunger) 2021 Finalist for Big Other Readers’ Choice Award (post-publication prize for Helen or My Hunger)
2021 Best of the Net Nomination, Guernica (“Milk Teeth”)
2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination, YesYes Books (“I knew the first of my own appetite”) 2019 FTLC Travel Grant, Grand Valley State University
2018 CSCE Dissemination Travel Grant, Grand Valley State University
2018 Pushcart Prize Nomination, Nightjar Review (“Hunger is the Analog”)
2018 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest Finalist, judge Vanessa Angélica Villareal 2018 Indiana Review Poetry Contest Finalist, judge Gabrielle Calvocoressi
2017 Robert H. West Award for outstanding graduate student, University of Georgia 2017 Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Georgia
2016 UMass MFA Alumni Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2016 Residency Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
2015 Graduate Research Award, Willson Center, University of Georgia
2015 Jane McMullen Academic Support Fund Award, University of Georgia
2014 Graduate Travel Award, University of Georgia
2013 Pushcart Prize Nomination, Parcel (“Mobiles”)
2012 Graduate Excellence Fellowship, University of Georgia
2012 Columbia:AJournalofLiteratureandArtPoetryContestWinner,judgeEileenMyles 2012 Best New Poets 2012, judge Matthew Dickman
2010 AWP Intro Journals Award Nomination, judge Dara Wier
2010 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award, judge James Haug
CONFERENCES
2018 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Denver, CO
Paper Presentation: “‘The Edges that Blur’: Adrienne Rich’s Later Poem Sequences.”
2014 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Seattle, WA
Panel: “Creative Composition: Incorporating Creative Writing into College Composition”
2012 English Graduate Organization Interdisciplinary Conference, Amherst, MA
Paper Presentation: “The Prospect of Cluttered Cellar: Joseph Cornell, Marianne Moore, and the Infinite ‘Endless Associations of Process.’”
2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA
Panel and Reading: “Poetry from the UMass MFA Program”
2009 EGO Interdisciplinary Conference, Amherst, MA Panel and Reading: “Poetics of Place and Home”
INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2021 The Writer’s Center Split Infinitive: Four Writers on Star Trek, roundtable discussion feat. novelist Tope Folarin, novelist Zach Powers, playwright Gwydion Suilebhan, and poet Gale Marie Thompson, July 29 [online]
2021 Poetry Workshop Leader for David R. Collins Midwestern Writer’s Conference “Unabashed Gratitude in Difficult Times,” June 24-26 [online]
2021 Invited Reading and Q&A, Intro to Poetry and Poetics [online], Georgia Gwinnett College 2020 The Writer’s Center and Poet Lore, Virtual Craft Happy Hour [online]
2020 Workshop Leader, Georgia Writers Association, “Engaging Myth in Poetry” [online]
2018 Featured Poet and Workshop Leader, Midwest Writing Center
“Taking Alternative Routes: Discovery in Writing Poetry” 2017 Guest Speaker, O, Miami Community Workshop, Miami, FL
Invited lecture and discussion for “Write and Publish Your Own Chapbook”
2015 Featured Poet and Workshop Leader, Blue House Visiting Writers Series, Elms College
2014 Featured Speaker: “Why Poetry?” George Walton Academy, Athens, GA
2013 Guest Lecturer, CMLT 6630: Literature of the Holocaust, University of Georgia
Seminar lecture and discussion: “Poetry of and after the Holocaust” 2011 Workshop Leader, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA
“The Soul Has Bandaged Moments”
DEPARTMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Senior Project (Poetry Manuscript) Committee Chair, Young Harris College, 2019-present Member, Academic Standards and Policies Committee, Young Harris College, 2022-present Member, Honor Council, Young Harris College, 2022-present
Member, Search Committee for Planetarium Director, Young Harris College, 2022
Faculty Advisor, Artemas Student Literary and Art Magazine, Young Harris College, 2019-present Faculty Advisor, Paws for Paws, Young Harris College, 2020-present
“Green Book” Guide and Anthology Committee, Grand Valley State University, 2018
Assisted with selection of student portfolios for publication, as well as course policy,
philosophy, and instructional material, featured in 2018 edition
Queer and Trans Ally Training, LGBT Resource Center, Grand Valley State University, 2018 Search Committee Graduate Liaison, University of Georgia, 2017
Assessment Calibration Committee Member, Southern New Hampshire University, 2017 Placement Test Reader, First-Year Composition Program, University of Georgia, 2014 Poetry Contest Judge, Phi Kappa Creative Writing Contest, University of Georgia, 2014 Contest Judge, Northeast Georgia National History Day, University of Georgia, 2013 Placement Test Reader, Writing Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011
Best Text Committee, Writing Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
1-on-1 Manuscript Critiques for David R. Collins Midwestern Writer’s Conference, 2021 Judge, “Top of Georgia” public speaking contest, March 2020.
Judge, Virginia Rucker Walter Undergraduate Poetry Prize, University of Georgia, 2020 Judge, Diann Blakely Graduate Poetry Prize, University of Georgia, 2020
Organizer and Co-Host, AWP Reading feat. Sixth Finch and Jellyfish, Washington, D.C., 2017 Judge, Gignilliat Poetry Competition, Wesleyan College, 2013-2018
Organizer and Co-Host, AWP Reading feat. Jellyfish and Spoke Too Soon, Minneapolis, MN, 2015 Organizer and Co-Host, Vox Reading Series, University of Georgia, 2014-2015
Organizer and Co-Host, AWP Reading feat. iO:Poetry, Jellyfish, and interrupture, Chicago, IL, 2013 Judge, Midwest Writing Center Poetry Chapbook Contest, 2013
Host and Organizer, Live Lit (Graduate Reading Series), Amherst, MA, 2011
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2009-2021 2018-2019 2012-2013
Jellyfish Poetry and Bloom Books, Managing Editor and Designer Fairy Tale Review, Poetry Reader
The Georgia Review, Graduate Assistant to the Editors
- Screened/evaluated poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts
- Wrote and edited content for site, including author interviews and promotional content
- Participated in copyediting, fact checking, and proofreading of manuscripts; trained and
tested in various style guides
2009-2012
jubilat, Assistant Editor, Assistant Managing Editor
- Oversaw submission evaluation, including tracking and forwarding to editor
- Scheduled regular meetings with reading staff
- Built donor and subscriber base by writing newsletters, donation appeal letters, and
developed marketing initiatives for subscription
- Assisting in the drafting and editing of yearly grant proposals
- Participated in proofreading and editing issues, layout design in InDesign
- Arranged and edited interview footage and additional magazine content
- Promoted each magazine issue and event through press release and social media
2011-2012
Slope Editions, Promotions Editor
- Wrote and designed press releases and maintained email contact lists !
- Wrote content for catalogue, website, and email announcements !
- Planned book tour, managed reviews of published books !
- Wrote and edited long- and short-form copy for blogs, websites, social media!
- Assisted in contest promotions; designed contest ads and related web content !
- Created and edited training materials for press!
- Read and evaluated manuscript submissions for 2011 and 2012 contests !
Crazyhorse, Editorial Intern RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-2008
Podcast
2019-present Now That We’re Friends, with Caroline Cabrera and Anne Cecelia Holmes
Write and host weekly episodes of arts and advice podcast, produced by Lisann Ramos and supported by the O, Miami Foundation
Copywriting/Editing
2015-present Freelance editor, poetry manuscript consultations
2014-present Freelance editor, academic job materials and long-form articles
2012-2014 Education Web Content Creator, Sciencing, eHow, Global Post, Seattle P-I, Synonym.com 2012 Copywriter, The Pearl Smile Dental Website – Oceanside, CA
2012 Web Content Creator and Editor, SparkNET
2012 Travel Content Creator and Article Writer, BizWR
Rating/Scoring
2018-Present 2016-2019 2015-2019
AP Essay Scorer, English Literature, ETS (Educational Testing Service) GRE Essay Rater, Argument and Issue, ETS (Educational Testing Service) Professional Test Scorer, Pearson Education
LANGUAGES
Spanish (Intermediate) German (Reading)
SKILLS
HTML/CSS/Javascript, Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Typekit), Microsoft Office Suite, Content Management Systems, template creation and execution (Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
