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Joan Connor

Joan Connor, portrait
Professor (retired)

Education

M.F.A., Vermont College, 1995

M.A., Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1984

B.A., cum laude, Mount Holyoke College, 1976

Scholarly Focus

Creative Writing: Fiction

Publications

Books

How To Stop Loving Someone, Leapfrog Press, 2011

The World Before Mirrors, River Teeth Award Series in Nonfiction, University of Nebraska, 2006

History Lessons, University of Massachusetts Press, AWP Award Series in Short Fiction, 2003; Frederick Busch, Judge

We Who Live Apart, University of Missouri Press, 2910 Le Mone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201, August, 2000

Here On Old Route 7, University of Missouri Press, 2910 LeMone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201, August, 1997

Anthologies

鈥淕ood People,鈥 story, Chautaqua Literary Arts Anthology, 2008

鈥淟ilac,鈥 essay, The Art of the Word, 2008

鈥淚n My Booth,鈥 Censored: The Best of What We Couldn鈥檛 Publish, Spire Press, NYNY, 2005

鈥淪ea Change,鈥 Blueline Anthology: 1981-2001, spring, 2004

鈥淔orsaken Places,鈥 Ohio Connections, the Literary Homecoming Project, Ohioana Library & Thurber House, fall, 2003

鈥淲hat It Is,鈥 Pushcart Anthology XXVIII, October, 2003

Selected Journals: Stories

鈥淭he Stripper,鈥 The Worcester Review, 2008

鈥淩ed Planets,鈥 The Journal of Arts & Letters, 2008

鈥淭he Un-naming,鈥 Colere, 2007

鈥淭he Angel of Repose,鈥 BlueLine, 2007

鈥淲onderful Counselor,鈥 Chelsea, 2006

鈥淭he Wild Dog,鈥 The Fourth River, 2006

鈥淭he Landmark Hotel,鈥 The Antioch Review, 2006

鈥淪hort Shorts,鈥 The Idaho Review, winter, 2005

鈥淭he Folly of Being Comforted,鈥 TriQuarterly, fall, 2005

鈥淪ummer Nights,鈥 The Village Rambler, spring, 2005

鈥淔耻苍别谤补濒,鈥 The Village Rambler, spring, 2005

鈥淲heather,鈥 Branches Quarterly, issue 4, spring, 2005

鈥淢en in Brown,鈥 Glimmer Train, spring, 2005

鈥淔inding Carla,鈥 Lake Effect, spring, 2005

鈥淗ow We Say Goodbye,鈥 Harpur Palate, spring, 2005

鈥淧补濒颈尘辫蝉别蝉迟,鈥 The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2005

鈥淭he Three Minute Love Story,鈥 The Big Muddy, fall, 2004

鈥淲hen the Boys Come Out to Play,鈥 Colere, summer, 2004

鈥淥ld-Timers鈥 Night,鈥 BlueLine, spring, 2004

鈥淎bandoned Shoe,鈥 Terra Incognita, fall, 2004

鈥淭he Night Cafe,鈥 580 Split, spring, 2004

鈥淐reative Writing,鈥 Inkwell, summer, 2004

鈥淚f It Is Bad, It Happens To Me,鈥 Hunger Mountain, Vermont Writers Issue, spring, 2004

鈥淭he Painbroker,鈥 Chautauqua Literary Arts Journal, spring, 2004

鈥淥耻迟濒补苍诲别谤,鈥 Branches Quarterly, April, 2003

鈥淭he Locked Room,鈥 from Vermont Trilogy, Full Circle, A Journal of Poetry and Prose, April, 2003, www.fullcirclejml.com

鈥淯nder the Rainbow,鈥 Chelsea Magazine, spring, 2003

鈥淭he Year of No Weather,鈥 Green Mountain Journal, fall, 2003

Essays

鈥淭hree Trips,鈥 The Connecticut Review, 2007

鈥淐olonel Andreas van Kuijk,鈥 Under the Sun, 2007

鈥淟ove at Forthy,鈥 The Pisgah Review, 2006

鈥淭he World Before Mirrors,鈥 The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2005

鈥淎bandoned Shoe,鈥 Terra Incognita, winter, 2005

鈥楢n Open Door,鈥 The Ohio Writer, fall, 2004

鈥淔or Geraldine,鈥 The Redwood Coast Review, fall, 2004

鈥淢补蝉辩耻别,鈥 Under the Sun, spring, 2004

鈥淭he Waiting Room,鈥 River Teeth, spring, 2004

鈥淏one Key,鈥 Black Warrior, fall, 2003

鈥淔orsaken Places,鈥 Mid-American Review, spring, 2003

鈥淲riting and Telepathy,鈥 The Journal of Arts & Letters, spring, 2003

Book Reviews

The Body of Brooklyn, Fourth Genre, fall, 2003

Evening Will Find Me, Katie Estill, The Ohio Writer, fall, 2000

Milltown Natural, Richard Hague, The Ohio Writer, winter, 1998

The Nature of Longing, Alyce Miller, Chelsea Magazine, fall, 1995

The Circles I Move In, Diane Lefer, Chelsea Magazine, fall, 1995

Readings

Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2008

Green Mountain Writers Conference, July, 2007

Gettysburg College Writers Conference, June, 2007

Virginia Commonwealth University, February, 2007

Green Mountain Writers Conference, July, 2006

Gettysburg College, September, 2005

Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2005

Annie鈥檚 Book Stop, Rutland, Vermont, August, 2005

Frostburg State University, April, 2005

Hotel Amerika Benefit Reading, fall, 2004

Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2004

Mount Holly Historical Association, Belmont, Vermont, August, 2004

Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont, August, 2004

Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI., March, 2004

Summerfest, Killington, Vermont, August, 2003

Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2003

Wired for Books, November, 2003

The Writers鈥 Harvest, October, 2003

West Virginia Writers Workshop, July, 2003

Book King, Green Mountain Journal Reading, March 3, 2003

Professional History

Professor, (Promotion granted, 2005) 51社区 2005 鈥 current

Professor, University of Southern Maine, Low Residency MFA Program, Summer, 2002 - current

Director, Creative Writing, 51社区, 2003 - 2008

Interim Co-director, University of Southern Maine, summer, 2004

Associate Professor, (Tenure granted, 2001), 51社区, 2001 - 2005

Assistant Professor, 51社区, Athens, Ohio, 1996 - 2001

Visiting Assistant Professor, Fiction Writing, 51社区, Athens, Ohio,1995-1996.

Courses Taught

  • Graduate and Undergraduate fiction workshops
  • Form and Theory, Nonfiction
  • Classes on Minimalism
  • Critical Approaches to the Fairy Tale
  • The Erotics of Literature
  • Evil and Literature
  • Comic Writing
  • De(re)constructing Love
  • The Rhetoric of Point-of-View
  • and others

Other Professional Activities

Green Mountain Writers鈥 Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2008

Green Mountain Writers鈥 Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2007

Workshop Leader/Reader/Lecturer, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Writers鈥 Conference, 2007

Final Judge, Best New American Voices fiction prize, VCU, 2007

External Reviewer, University of Iowa Press, November, 2006

Green Mountain Writers Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2006

Member, Pen American Center, 2006 to 2008

Member AWP, 1995 to current

Advisory Board, reader, Review Americana: A Literary Journal,

Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Culture, 2006 - current

Short Story, 鈥淲hat It Is,鈥 featured story, the Writers Studio, NYNY, 2005

Nonfiction Editor, Hotel Amerika, 2005 - 2006

Green Mountain Writers Conference, 2005, Panelist and Workshop leader,

Green Mountain Writers Conference, 2004, Panelist and Workshop leader

Student Elected Keynote Speaker, first graduating class, Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing, July, 2004

Collaboration, Orchestral Composition, 51社区 Bicentennial, 2004

Reader and Speaker, Summerfest, Killington, Vermont, August, 2003

Final Judge, Dogwood Fiction Contest, January, 2004

Green Mountain Writers Conference, Panelist and Workshop Leader, August, 2003

West Virginia Writers Workshop, Reader, Workshop Leader, July, 2003

Judge, University of Missouri, McKinney Fiction Contest Contributing Editor, Hotel Amerika, fall, 2002 - 2006

Green Mountain Writers Conference, Panelist and Workshop Leader, August, 2002

Vermont League of Writers, Lecturer and Workshop Leader, Poultney, Vermont, July 2002

Kenyon College, English Honors Program, Outside Examiner, April 27 - 28, 2002

Longman Reviewer, The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, Dana Gioia, R.S. Gwynn, 2002

Prentice Hall Reviewer, Creative Writer鈥檚 Handbook, 3rd ed., Philip K. Jason, Allen B. Lefkowitz, 2001

Judge, fiction contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 2002

Workshop Leader, Green Mountain Writers Conference, summer, 2001

Judge, fiction contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 2001

Workshop Leader, Ohio Valley Literary Group, January, 2001

Workshop Leader, Green Mountain Writers Conference, summer, 2000

Judge, AWP Contest, fiction, 2000

Workshop Leader, Panelist, Lecturer, Green Mountain Writers鈥 Conference, August, 1999

Final Judge, Fiction Contest, New England Writers, July, 1999

Judge, Fiction Contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 1999

Manuscript Editor, The Chautauqua Writers鈥 Center, summer, 1999

Paper presented, 鈥淏eginnings,鈥 AWP Pedagogy Forum Board Member, New England Writers Association, 1998 - 2002

Judge, Fiction Contest, Chelsea Magazine, July, 1998

Final Judge, Fiction, The Ohio Writer Contest, June, 1998

Final Judge, New England Writers Conference, Shortshort Contest, summer, 1998

Guest, Question & Answer, Story Writing, Critical Approaches to Fiction, O.U., May, 1998

Final Judge, Ellis Literary Award, Myrtle Armstrong Prize for Fiction, Indiana University, February, 1998

Fiction Workshop Leader, Chautauqua Arts Center, summer 1997

Fiction Workshop Leader, New England Writers Conference, July 1997,Windsor, VT

Panelist, New England Writers Conference, July 1996, Windsor, VT

First Reader, Fiction MSS., Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, 1996

Mentor, Young Writers鈥 Institute, Hartford, CT, 1994 - 2002

Assistant Editor, fiction, Chelsea Magazine, NYNY, 1994 - 1996