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CATHERINE N. CORTESE (KATIE)

CONTACT INFORMATION (Work): 405 Williams Building English Department Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580

Main Office P: (850) 644-4230 Main Office F: (850) 644-0811 [email protected]

EDUCATION 2008-Present

Ph.D. in Literature, Creative Writing Emphasis (Fiction), 20th-Century American Literature Minor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Committee: Mark Winegardner (major professor), Julianna Baggott, Elizabeth-Stuckey-French, David Kirby, Neil Jumonville

2003-2006

M.F.A., Fiction, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Committee: T.M. McNally (chair), Ron Carlson, Melissa Pritchard

1998-2002

B.A., English and Theater, Skidmore College, New York

Spring 2001

Advanced Studies in England, Bath, and Keble College, Oxford

Fall 2000

The Shakespeare Programme, London, England

Summer 1999

Advanced Studies in England, Bath, England

PUBLICATIONS SHORT STORIES “Spaceman’s Daughter,” Cimarron Review, forthcoming 2012 “Pilgrims,” Crab Orchard Review’s Due North Issue, Volume 17, Issue 2, Fall 2012 “History, Revised,” New Madrid, Volume VII, No. 2, Summer 2012 “Gliese 581g,” NANO Fiction, Issue 10, Summer 2012 “Warming Up,” Main Street Rag, Summer 2012 “Anger Management,” Fiction Southeast, Spring 2012 “Play Dead,” Seven Hills Review, Volume 17, Spring 2012 “The Promised Land,” Narrative Magazine, Fall 2011 “Hide and Seek,” Fiction Southeast (reprint), Fall 2011 Issue “Let Down Your Hair,” Silk Road, Volume 6.2, Fall 2011 “Paula’s Old Tyme Pirate Photos,” Harpur Palate, Volume 11, Fall 2011 “Thrill Ride,” River Styx, Issue 85, Summer 2011 “Sum of Her Parts,” Smokelong Quarterly, Spring 2011, Issue 32 1

“Hide and Seek,” New South, Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2011 “International Cooking for Beginners,” Willow Springs, Issue 66, Summer 2010 “Tug-of-War,” Passages North, Winter/Spring 2010 Issue “The Foul-Friendly Sea,” Prick of the Spindle, Vol. 3.3, Fall 2009 “Rapture,” The Ampersand Review, Vol. II, Spring 2009 “Sugar Coat,” The Superstition Review, Issue 2, 2008 “Swallowed,” NANO Fiction, Volume 1, No. 2, 2007 “Confirmation II,” St. Ann’s Review, Summer 2007 “Hovering,” Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction, Issue 10, 2006 “Bitter, Sweet, Salt,” Zone 3 Literary Journal, Fall 2005 CREATIVE NONFICTION/MEMOIR “Mr. Fixit,” The Tusculum Review, forthcoming spring 2013 “Life on a Half Shell,” Arizona State University’s Marginalia, Spring 2008 POEMS “A Pocket Guide to Cosmic Bowling,” The Prose-Poem Project, Fall 2011 “Rowboat,” The Prose-Poem Project, Fall 2011 “Alchemical Confrontations in June,” PANK, Fall 2009 “An Autumn Seurat,” PANK, Fall 2009 “Squall,” The VisualText Project II, 2005 “How to Catch a Desert Fish,” The Comstock Review, 2005 “How to Catch a Desert Fish,” The VisualText Project I, 2004 ARTICLES/JOURNALISM Multiple articles for Bigfish Publications, Spasearch, Poolsearch and Spasearch UK, 2006 Graduate Creative Writing Student Association Update, ASU’s Marginalia, 2005 “From the Fringe to the West End, Student Prices Pay Off,” www.budgetbritain.com, 2002 Contributed to the Skidmore News at Skidmore College, 1998-2002 INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES AS INTERVIEWEE/SUBJECT: “The Next Generation,” by Roseanne Dunkelberger, Tallahassee Magazine, May/June 2012 “Smoking with Katie Cortese,” by Aubrey Hirsch, Smokelong Quarterly, Spring 2011, Issue 32 “Notes on ‘International Cooking for Beginners,’” Willow Springs Online, Summer 2010 AS INTERVIEWER: “Q&A with Caitlin Horrocks,” Southeast Review Online [SER Online], forthcoming Fall 2012 “Looking for Voice: Tips for Writing Query Letters, Synopses, and Navigating the Process of Submitting a Novel Manuscript—an Interview with Elizabeth Weld,” The Southeast Review’s Writer’s Regimen and SER Online, 2010-11 “An Ideal Pursuit: Ron Carlson on Writing, Reading and Teaching Fiction,” Juked, Spring 2010 2

“Interview with Bill Konigsberg,” SER Online, Fall 2009 BOOK REVIEWS “Bill Konigsberg’s Out of the Pocket,” ASU’s Marginalia, Fall 2009 “Nalini Jones’ What You Call Winter: Stories,” SER Online, 2009 “Lee Ann Carroll’s Rehearsing New Roles, How College Students Develop as Writers,” ASU’s Rhetoric and Composition Book Reviews Corner, 2003

WRITING AWARDS Pushcart Prize nominee, Fiction Southeast, “Anger Management,” Spring 2012 Finalist, Press 53 Open Awards, Flash Fiction, “History, Revised,” Spring 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, Silk Road, “Let Down Your Hair,” Fall 2011 Finalist, Narrative magazine’s 2011 Fall Story Contest, “The Second Happiest Place on Earth” First Place, Seven Hills Review’s Flash Fiction Contest, “Play Dead,” Fall 2011 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest, “History, Revised,” Fall 2011 Third Prize, Narrative magazine’s 2011 Story Contest, “The Promised Land,” Fall 2011 Honorable Mention, Silk Road Flash Fiction Contest, “Let Down Your Hair,” May 2011 George M. Harper Graduate Award for Outstanding Critical Writing, FSU, “Re-Imagining Women's Roles in American Literature and Culture prior to 1800,” Spring 2011 First Place, River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest, “Thrill Ride,” Spring 2011 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, “Hide and Seek,” Winter 2010 Pushcart prize nominee, Willow Springs, “International Cooking for Beginners,” Fall 2010 Listed in “Notable Stories of 2009,” storySouth Million Writers Award, “The Foul-Friendly Sea” AWP Intro Award nominee, FSU, “The Second Happiest Place on Earth,” Fall 2008 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train’s Short-Story Award for New Writers, “Rapture,” Fall 2007 Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007, “Hovering” (short story) Nominated for Best American New Voices 2006 anthology for “Pilgrims” by Melissa Pritchard Five Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Award for Writing Fiction and Poetry, ASU, 2004-2006 Two Sonoran Awards in Poetry and Fiction, ASU, 2005 and 2006 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award, “Swallowed,” Winter 2005 Denise Marcil Prize for Fiction, Skidmore College, “The Power of Three,” Spring 2002

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2008 - Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (IOR) Designed, implemented, and graded all assigned courses

Fall 2006 - 2008

Faculty Associate, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (IOR) Designed, implemented, and graded all assigned courses

Fall 2005 - 2006

Prose Writing Instructor, Emeritus Faculty Education Series, Virginia C. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Tempe, AZ 3

Fall 2004 - 2006

Visiting Writer, Young Writers Program, Arizona State University and J.B. Sutton Elementary, Phoenix, AZ

Fall 2003 - 2006

Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Dept., ASU, Tempe, AZ (IOR) Designed, implemented, and graded all assigned courses

Summer - 2005

Creative Writing Instructor, Programs for Talented Youth, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

COURSES TAUGHT Spring 2012 Spring 2010-11 Fall 2006-Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2005, Spring 2007 Fall 2005-Spring 2006 Fall 2005

CREATIVE WRITING Article and Essay Technique [CRW 3310], FSU, 1 section Fiction Technique [CRW 3110], FSU, 4 sections Intermediate Fiction Workshop [ENG 310], ASU, 5 sections Advanced Fiction Workshop [ENG 411], ASU, 1 section Beginning Fiction Workshop [ENG 210], ASU, 2 sections Prose Writing Workshop, Virginia G. Piper Center, 2 sections Writing Reflective Essays [ENG 217], ASU, 1 section

Fall 2011

LITERATURE The Short Story: Studies in Literary Antecedents, FSU, 1 section,

Fall 2009 Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2004-2006 Fall 2003-2005

COMPOSITION Imaginative Writing: Reading & Writing Stories, FSU, 1 section Freshman Writing and Research, FSU, 1 section First-Year Composition, FSU, 2 sections Writing Arguments, ASU, 4 sections Freshman Composition, ASU, 6 sections

READING-WRITING CENTER EXPERIENCE Spring, Summer, Fall 2009 and Summer2010—Tutor, FSU (registered students and walk-ins)

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Spring 2010 - Present

Editor-in-Chief of The Southeast Review, FSU Responsible for overseeing all aspects of print and online production (content, budget, distribution, conferences, etc.)

Spring 2010-Present

Associate Editor, Juked, Tallahassee, FL Evaluate submissions, confer with editor-in-chief, John Wang

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Summer 2012

Associate Editor of Perspectives on the Short Story, Pearson Publishing, 2012, Caitlin Newcomer and Scott Ortolano, Eds. Copyedited new literature textbook

2009 - 2010

Assistant Editor of The Southeast Review, FSU Supported Editor-in-Chief and managed undergraduate interns

Spring 2009

Editor of Writing Regimens for The Southeast Review, FSU Created content, designed layout, managed subscriptions

2008 - 2009

Fiction Reader for The Southeast Review, FSU Evaluated submissions, voted on final selections

2007 - 2008

Development Associate, Childsplay, Tempe, AZ Wrote and managed grants (NEA, Target, US Airways, etc.)

2006 - 2007

Associate Editor, Bigfish Publications, Scottsdale, AZ Edited and wrote articles for publication in Spasearch, Poolsearch, and Spasearch UK

2005 - 2006

Fiction Co-Editor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ASU Managed reading staff, made final fiction selections, edited work

2004 - 2005

Fiction Associate Editor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, ASU Evaluated fiction submissions

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS Received Edward H. and Marie C. Kingsbury Fellowship for academic year 2012-2013, FSU Attended Sewanee Writer’s Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar, Summer 2012 Receive a Special Summer Stipend, FSU’s English Department, Summer 2012 and 2011 Passed preliminary doctoral exams with distinction, Fall, 2010 Kicked off American Short Fiction’s Best of the Web Series, “International Cooking for Beginners,” Fall 2010 Skidmore Alumni Scholarship, academic years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 Received Dean of Special Programs Scholarship to attend The New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, Skidmore College, Summer 2005 Awarded AZ Commission on the Arts Professional Development Grant to attend AWP 2005 Attended The New York State Summer Writer’s Institute, Skidmore College, Summer 2002-04

SELECTED READINGS Make ‘em Laugh: 2nd Annual Reading of Funny Female Writers to Benefit Refuge House, The Warehouse, Tallahassee, FL, Spring 2012 5

Graduate Student Reading Series, The Warehouse, Tallahassee, FL, Spring 2012 Hungry Young Poets reading series, sponsored by River Styx Literary Magazine in St. Louis, Missouri, Summer 2011 Graduate Student Reading Series, The Warehouse, Tallahassee, FL, Fall 2008 Graduate Student Reading Series, Arizona State University, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003 VisualText II Project Reading, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Spring 2006 VisualText Project Reading, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Spring 2005

SERVICE Advisory Board Member for First Inkling, SUNY Rockland’s literary magazine, 2011-present Graduate School Panel for Literati, FSU’s undergraduate creative writing club, Fall 2011 Served on GEAR (Graduate English Association Representatives), Spring and Fall 2010 Co-Host of Florida State University’s weekly fiction and poetry readings at the Warehouse, including the Visiting Writer Series and the Graduate Student Readings, Spring 2010 Co-Host of 2009 Writers Harvest fundraiser event for Second Harvest of the Big Bend, held at Florida State University featuring Robert Pinsky, Fall 2009 Faculty Advisor to WORD (Creative Writers at Arizona State University), an undergraduate creative writing club initiated by a student in my Advanced Fiction Writing class, 2007 President, Graduate Creative Writing Student Association, ASU, Tempe, AZ, 2004 – 2006

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Will Moderate Panel, Association of Writers and Writing Programs [AWP] 2013, Boston: “Nothing but the ‘Truth’: Perspectives on Creative Nonfiction in the Classroom and Beyond” (with Michael Martone, Diane Roberts, Robin Hemley, and Steve Watkins) Panelist/Moderator, AWP 2012, Chicago: “The Art of Collaboration: Writers, Artists, and Editors on Marrying Visual Art and Text” (with Denise Bookwalter, Frank Giampietro, Jessica Pitchford, and Jodee Stanley) Panelist, AWP 2012, Chicago: “Child’s Play?: Literary Presence of Graduate Student Run Journals” (with Matthew Cooperman, Jenny Gropp Hess, Kate Nuernberger, and Ben Pfeiffer) Breakout session, 90th Annual National Student Media Convention [NSMC] 2011, Orlando, “Literary Death Match: Online vs. Print Journals” Panelist, NSMC 2011, Orlando, “Lit Mags Summit: Dispatches from the Bloody Trenches of Little Literary Magazines” (with Stephen Corey, Raymond Hammond, and Mimi Ferebee) Panelist, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference 2011, Gulfport, “Magazine/Small Press Editors' Panel” (with Dominika Wrozynski, Amanda McCormick, Jeff Grieneisen, Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, and Jason Stuart)

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Moderator, AWP 2011, Washington D.C., “Love at First Query: Agents and Authors Share Strategies for Falling in Literary Love” (with Bret Anthony Johnston, Matthew Gavin Frank, Paige Wheeler, Michelle Bowen, and Gordon Warnock) Panelist, Florida College English Association Conference, Winter Park, 2010 (with Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Jeff Grieneisen, Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, Jaquira Díaz, John Henry Fleming, and Vidhu Aggarwal) Moderator, AWP 2010, Denver, “A For Effort?: Grading Methodologies in the Creative Writing Classroom” (with Mark Winegardner, Tom Hunley, Caitlin Horrocks, and Sally Ball) Moderator, AWP 2010, Denver, “‘Mommy, I’m having an Existential Crisis’: Writing Children’s Voices in Fiction” (with Eric Puchner, Dan Chaon, Melissa Pritchard, Elizabeth Stuckey-French) “Bad Dates, Good Stories: Humanizing the Other,” Pedagogy Forum, AWP 2009, Chicago Operations Assistant, Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference 2007, ASU, Tempe Panelist, “Creative Writing in the Academy,” Southwest Graduate English Symposium 2006, ASU, Tempe

REFERENCES Julianna Baggott, Associate Professor, Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts [email protected] Mark Winegardner, Burroway Professor of English, Florida State University [email protected] Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Professor of English, Florida State University [email protected] Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Professor of English, Florida State University [email protected] Barry Faulk, Professor of English, Theory Certificate Program Director, Florida State University [email protected] Ron Carlson, Professor/Co-Director, MFA Programs in Writing, University of California, Irvine [email protected]

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