Joan Connor
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
āGood People,ā story, Chautaqua Literary Arts Anthology, 2008
āLilac,ā essay, The Art of the Word, 2008
āIn My Booth,ā Censored: The Best of What We Couldnāt Publish, Spire Press, NYNY, 2005
āSea Change,ā Blueline Anthology: 1981-2001, spring, 2004
āForsaken Places,ā Ohio Connections, the Literary Homecoming Project, Ohioana Library & Thurber House, fall, 2003
āWhat It Is,ā Pushcart Anthology XXVIII, October, 2003
Selected Journals: Stories
āThe Stripper,ā The Worcester Review, 2008
āRed Planets,ā The Journal of Arts & Letters, 2008
āThe Un-naming,ā Colere, 2007
āThe Angel of Repose,ā BlueLine, 2007
āWonderful Counselor,ā Chelsea, 2006
āThe Wild Dog,ā The Fourth River, 2006
āThe Landmark Hotel,ā The Antioch Review, 2006
āShort Shorts,ā The Idaho Review, winter, 2005
āThe Folly of Being Comforted,ā TriQuarterly, fall, 2005
āSummer Nights,ā The Village Rambler, spring, 2005
āF³Ü²Ō±š°ł²¹±ō,ā The Village Rambler, spring, 2005
āWheather,ā Branches Quarterly, issue 4, spring, 2005
āMen in Brown,ā Glimmer Train, spring, 2005
āFinding Carla,ā Lake Effect, spring, 2005
āHow We Say Goodbye,ā Harpur Palate, spring, 2005
āP²¹±ō¾±³¾±č²õ±š²õ³Ł,ā The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2005
āThe Three Minute Love Story,ā The Big Muddy, fall, 2004
āWhen the Boys Come Out to Play,ā Colere, summer, 2004
āOld-Timersā Night,ā BlueLine, spring, 2004
āAbandoned Shoe,ā Terra Incognita, fall, 2004
āThe Night Cafe,ā 580 Split, spring, 2004
āCreative Writing,ā Inkwell, summer, 2004
āIf It Is Bad, It Happens To Me,ā Hunger Mountain, Vermont Writers Issue, spring, 2004
āThe Painbroker,ā Chautauqua Literary Arts Journal, spring, 2004
āO³Ü³Ł±ō²¹²Ō»å±š°ł,ā Branches Quarterly, April, 2003
āThe Locked Room,ā from Vermont Trilogy, Full Circle, A Journal of Poetry and Prose, April, 2003, www.fullcirclejml.com
āUnder the Rainbow,ā Chelsea Magazine, spring, 2003
āThe Year of No Weather,ā Green Mountain Journal, fall, 2003
Essays
āThree Trips,ā The Connecticut Review, 2007
āColonel Andreas van Kuijk,ā Under the Sun, 2007
āLove at Forthy,ā The Pisgah Review, 2006
āThe World Before Mirrors,ā The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2005
āAbandoned Shoe,ā Terra Incognita, winter, 2005
āAn Open Door,ā The Ohio Writer, fall, 2004
āFor Geraldine,ā The Redwood Coast Review, fall, 2004
āM²¹²õ±ē³Ü±š,ā Under the Sun, spring, 2004
āThe Waiting Room,ā River Teeth, spring, 2004
āBone Key,ā Black Warrior, fall, 2003
āForsaken Places,ā Mid-American Review, spring, 2003
āWriting and Telepathy,ā 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
Annieās 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 Writersā Harvest, October, 2003
West Virginia Writers Workshop, July, 2003
Book King, Green Mountain Journal Reading, March 3, 2003
Professional History
Professor, (Promotion granted, 2005) 51ĀŅĀ× 2005 ā current
Professor, University of Southern Maine, Low Residency MFA Program, Summer, 2002 - current
Director, Creative Writing, 51ĀŅĀ×, 2003 - 2008
Interim Co-director, University of Southern Maine, summer, 2004
Associate Professor, (Tenure granted, 2001), 51ĀŅĀ×, 2001 - 2005
Assistant Professor, 51ĀŅĀ×, Athens, Ohio, 1996 - 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fiction Writing, 51ĀŅĀ×, 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 Writersā Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2008
Green Mountain Writersā Conference, panelist, lecturer, 2007
Workshop Leader/Reader/Lecturer, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Writersā 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, āWhat It Is,ā 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, 51ĀŅĀ× 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 Writerās 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 Writersā Conference, August, 1999
Final Judge, Fiction Contest, New England Writers, July, 1999
Judge, Fiction Contest, Chelsea Magazine, June, 1999
Manuscript Editor, The Chautauqua Writersā Center, summer, 1999
Paper presented, āBeginnings,ā 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 Writersā Institute, Hartford, CT, 1994 - 2002
Assistant Editor, fiction, Chelsea Magazine, NYNY, 1994 - 1996