Sarah Rose Nordgren

4116 Florida Avenue

Cincinnati, Ohio 45223
919.672.6877
nordgrsr@mail.uc.edu
SarahRoseNordgren.com
Education

2020 University of Cincinnati

Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing
Graduation Date: May 2020 (expected)
Dissertation: The Creation Museum, a hybrid form collection
Chair: Rebecca Lindenberg; Readers: Lisa Hogeland and John Drury
Concentrations: Creative Writing: Poetry, Feminist Literature, Hybrid Forms and
New Media

2017 University of Cincinnati

Graduate Certificate in Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2007 University of North Carolina at Greensboro

M.F.A in Creative Writing
Thesis: The Only House in the Neighborhood, a collection of poems
Director: Stuart Dischell; Reader: Jennifer Grotz

2004 Sarah Lawrence College

B.A. in Liberal Arts
Concentrations: English Literature and Creative Writing

Book Publications

Darwin’s Mother. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Poetry.

• Finalist, Ohioana Book Award, 2018
• Fan Favorite in Poetry Category, “Reader’s Choice,” Ohioana Book Award, 2018

Best Bones. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Poetry.

• Winner, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, 2013

Honors, Fellowships, Awards

2019 Ricking Dissertation Fellowship, University of Cincinnati

2019 William Matthews Poetry Prize, 2nd Place, Asheville Poetry Review, for “Blessing”

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2018 Finalist, Ohioana Book Award, for Darwin’s Mother
2018 Jean Chimsky Graduate Poetry Prize Winner, University of Cincinnati
2016 Poetry Fellow, Vermont Studio Center
2016 Taft Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati
2016 Jean Chimsky Graduate Poetry Prize Winner, University of Cincinnati
2015 Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers Conference
2015 Summer Research Grant, Miami University of Ohio
2014 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
2014 Poetry Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, University of Pittsburgh Press, for Best Bones
2013 Poetry Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2012 James Wright Poetry Prize, Mid-American Review, for “When You Are Dead”
2012 Poetry Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2011-2012 Second Year Poetry Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
2011 Louis Untermeyer Tuition Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers Conference
2009 Work-Study Scholar, Bread Loaf Writers Conference
2008-2009 Poetry Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
2005-2007 Fred Chappell Fellow, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Teaching

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2015-present University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor of record for undergraduate courses in poetry, creative writing, literature,
and composition. List of taught courses appears below.

ENGL 1001: English Composition

ENGL 2002: Topics in Literature: Nature vs. Technology: Cyborgs, Androids, and
Human Evolution
ENGL 2010: Introduction to Creative Writing: Multi-Genre (Online)
ENGL 2089: Intermediate Composition (Online and Hybrid sections)
ENGL 3033: Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction Workshop (Online)
ENGL/EVST 3079: Creative Writing and the Environment

2012–2015 Miami University of Ohio, Middletown, OH

Visiting Assistant Professor (part-time)
Instructor of record for undergraduate courses in poetry, creative writing, literature,
and composition. List of taught courses appears below.

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 ENG 111: Composition and Rhetoric (In person and Online sections)
ENG 112: Composition and Literature
ENG 123: Introduction to Poetry
ENG 143: American Literature 1945-present
ENG 226: Creative Writing Workshop: Multi-Genre

2014 Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Adjunct Instructor
Instructor of record for ENG 101: College Composition.

2007-2008 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Lecturer
Instructor of record for undergraduate courses in literature and composition. List of
taught courses appears below.

ENG 101: College Writing

ENG 102: College Writing II (Speaking Intensive)
ENG 104: Approach to Literature
ENG 106: Introduction to Poetry

2006-2007 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Teaching Assistant
Assistant instructor contributing guest lectures and grading support for the
following courses.

ENG 372: Early American Literature

ENG 382: Modern British and American Drama

MASTERS ADVISING

2019 Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Supervisor, MA Thesis Committee for Daniel Lumb (Poetry), “Eros in Love.”

2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reader, MFA Thesis Committee for Kathleen Kelley (Choreography), “To the
Land: 50 Meditations on Freedom, Action, and Receptivity.”

OTHER TEACHING

2015-present The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Online Poetry Faculty
Designer/instructor of poetry workshops through 24 Pearl Street, the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown’s online writing program.

2014–2016 The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN

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 Online Teaching Artist
Designer/instructor of poetry workshops through the Loft Literary Center’s online
writing programs.

2012 Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton, CA

Co-director, Faculty
Designed, co-directed, and taught in the Creative Writers Workshop, a summer
workshop for secondary students.

2008-10 Duke University Summer Programs, Durham, NC

Faculty
Core faculty for the Creative Writers Workshop, a summer workshop program for
secondary students.

Editorial and Publishing Experience

2019-2020 John Updike Letters Project, University of Cincinnati, OH

Graduate Assistant
Serve under Dr. James Schiff to edit a book manuscript of John Updike’s selected
letters for trade publication. Tasks include collecting, selecting, and transcribing
Updike’s letters, as well as procuring publishing permissions.

2015-present 32 Poems Magazine, Washington, PA

Associate Editor
Serve as editor reporting to the Editor-in-Chief, George David Clark. Read and rank
submissions, participate in planning for issue, solicit authors.

2010-2011 Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC

Assistant Publicist
Represented Algonquin’s titles in the publicity department. Wrote press releases and
blog posts, planned book tours, served as contact for media and authors, submitted
books for awards, and participated in publicity and marketing strategy.

2010 Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC

Editorial Intern
Read fiction and nonfiction book submissions for editorial department. Submitted
reports for chief editors, participated in editorial meetings.

2007-2008 Unicorn Press, Greensboro, NC

Apprentice Bookmaker
Learned book layout, letterpress typesetting, and hand binding under publisher Alan
Brilliant.

2006-2007 The Greensboro Review, UNCG, Greensboro, NC

Poetry Editor

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 Head poetry editor for The Greensboro Review, reporting to Editor-in-Chief, Jim Clark.
Read and ranked submissions, participated in planning for issue, corresponded with
authors, participated in editorial meetings.

2005-2006 International Poetry Review, UNCG, Greensboro, NC

Assistant Editor
Assisted editor Mark Smith-Soto in reading and ranking submissions, participated in
planning for issue, maintained submission records.

Selected Periodical Publications (2008-present)

POETRY

Blackbird, “Feathers” and “On Stillness” (forthcoming Fall 2019)

Asheville Poetry Review, “Blessing,” William Matthews Poetry Prize 2nd Place (forthcoming Fall 2019)
Crazyhorse, “Making a Baby” and “Territory” (forthcoming Fall 2019)
West Branch, “Diorama” sequence of six poems (Issue No. 89, Winter 2019)
Colorado Review, “Hawaii” and “Addendum” (Fall/Winter 2017)
Bennington Review, “Movie Night” and “The Box my Mother Keeps” (Spring 2017)
Verse Daily, “Dr. Harry Harlow’s Primate Laboratory” (July 2017)
The Offing, “Electromagnetic” (June 2017)
Southern Indiana Review, “Dr. Harry Harlow’s Primate Laboratory,” “Monster,” and “The Ghoasts”
(Spring 2017)
The Humanist, “Life Without a Spine” (May/June 2017)
Adroit Journal, “Darwin’s Mother” sequence of three poems (Issue No. 20, 2017)
Diagram, “The Anatomist” (Issue 17.1, 2017)
Painted Bride Quarterly, “Breeders” (Issue 95, Print No. 8, 2017)
Pleiades, “The Kiss” (Issue 37.1, 2016)
Free Verse, “Goddesses,” “Mitochondrial Eve,” and “Pregnancy” (Summer 2016)
Narrative, “Material” (June 2016)
Poetry Daily, “Kindling” (April 2016)
Verse Daily, “Animal Space” (July 2015)
American Poetry Review, “Moral Animal” (July/August 2015)
The Common, “Vaka eller Sova” and “Your Quiet Book” (online, April 2015)
Adroit Journal, “Kindling” (Issue No. 11, 2015)
Copper Nickel, “Animal Space” and “Pillar of Fire by Night” (Issue No. 20, 2015)
Verse Daily, “Blue Whale” (October, 2014)

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Greensboro Review, “The Only House in the Neighborhood” (Volume 96, 2014)
The Paris-American, “The Cell” and “St. Bernard Soap Factory” (September 2014)
Salt Hill Journal, “Annie” (Volume 33, 2014)
Poetry Daily, “Mother, Pressed” (June 2014)
storySouth, “The Weed” (Issue No. 37, 2014)
Ploughshares, “Ghost Lessons” and “The Monastery” (Volume 40.1, 2014)
Agni, “At the Crystal Palace, London” and “Mother, Pressed” (Issue No. 79, 2014)
Harvard Review, “Wallflower” (Issue No. 45, 2014)
32 Poems, “Your Server for This Evening” (Volume 11.2, 2013)
Verse Daily, “The Performance” (September 2013)
The Literary Review, “Mary” and “The Performance” (Winter 2013)
The Hollins Critic, “My Dearest Doll” (Volume L.1, 2013)
Poetry Northwest, “Letter from a New England Girl” (online, January 2013)
Mid-American Review, “When You Are Dead,” James Wright Poetry Contest Winner (Volume 33.1, 2012)
Provincetown Arts Magazine, “Still Birth” (Summer 2012)
Memorious, “Laying the Cloth, Etc.” (Issue No. 18, 2012)
Iowa Review, “1917” and “Prion” (Volume 42.1, 2012)
Pleiades, “Tending the Flocks” (Volume 32.1, 2012)
American Literary Review, “Black Fly,” “Please Listen to Us,” and “By the Water” (Spring 2011)
The Collagist, “Blue Whale” and “Temporary River” (July 2011)
Mid-American Review, “Carving the New Family” in (Volume 30.1-2, 2010)
Puerto del Sol, “Constructions” (Volume 44.2, 2009)
Cincinnati Review, “Body Exhumation” (Volume 6.1, 2009)
Hayden’s Ferry Review, “To my Mother” (Issue No. 42, 2008)

Other poems published in Quarterly West, Natural Bridge, Lumina, Bone Bouquet, Drunken Boat,
Connotation: An Online Artifact, Two Peach, La Petite Zine, and elsewhere.

ANTHOLOGIES

The Doll Anthology. Ed. Diane Lockward. “The Only House in the Neighborhood.” Terrapin Books, 2016.
Unknown Elements, Ed. Brian Sholis. “Simulation.” Cincinnati Art Museum, 2015.
Best New Poets, Ed. D.A. Powell. “Don’t.” Samovar Press, 2011.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

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The Florida Review, “The Coffin Seed” (Vol. 41, No. 1, Spring 2017)
The Kenyon Review Online, “On the Fabric of the Body” (Fall 2016)

REVIEWS & JOURNALISM

The Writers Chronicle (online), “The Source of Poetry” (July 2016)

Hippo Reads, “Science vs. ‘The Book’: Seeking Answers to Life’s Greatest Questions” (April 2014)
Mid-American Review, Review of Tarfia Faizullah’s Seam (Volume 34.2, 2014)
Mid-American Review, Review of Nathan Hoks’ The Narrow Circle (Volume 34.1, 2013)

New Media & Performance

TERRITORY (2017)
Short poetry film created in collaboration with dance artist Kathleen Kelley.

2018 AWP Annual Conference, Tampa, Offsite Event, TriQuarterly Reading (March 2018)
2018 Moving Poems feature (February 2018)
2018 TriQuarterly (Issue 153, Winter/Spring 2018)
2017 Experimental Forum Film Festival, Honorable Mention, Los Angeles, CA
(November 2017)

DIGITIZED FIGURES (2016)

Performance and video installation created in collaboration with dance artist Kathleen Kelley, including three
poetry videos (“Portlet,” “Reservoir” and “Recipe”), live dance, and interactive touchscreen technology.

2016 Premiere of installation at Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn, NY, co-produced by the

Vanderbilt Group (October 2016)
2016 Small Po[r]tions publishes “Reservoir” (Issue 6, March 2016)
2015 Digital Fringe Festival features “Portlet,” Philly Fringe Festival, produced by
FringeArts (Fall 2015)
2015 Tiny Dance Festival features “Portlet” and live dance performance, Brick Theater,
Brooklyn, NY (July 2015)
2015 Moving Poems features “Portlet” (July 2015)
2014 Premier of partial installation performance at The Dance Complex, Boston, MA
(October 2014)

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2014 MTV: Movement Technology Videos online film festival features “Portlet,” Rutgers
Institute of Women in Art (Fall 2014)
2014 Montclair State University, Dept. of Dance and Theater, Work-in-progress showing
(September 2014)

Lectures and Readings

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES

2018 Sarah Lawrence College, “Hybridity and Magical Thinking” (Craft Talk)
2018 AWP Annual Conference, Tampa, “Poetry on the Big Screen” (Panelist)
2018 AWP Annual Conference, Tampa, “Exquisite Corpse 3.0: Active Learning in the
Digital Creative Writing Classroom” (Panelist)
2017 Trevecca Nazarene University “What Images Do” (Craft Talk)
2017 NonfictioNow Annual Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, “Kinetic Pages in the U.S.
and Iceland: A Discussion and Performance of International Multiform Nonfiction”
(Panelist)
2017 humanitiesNow Annual Conference, Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati,
“The Making of ‘Territory’” (Presentation)
2016 AWP Annual Conference, Los Angeles, “Hearing Voices: Dramatic Monologue,
Persona, and the Lyric ‘I’” (Panelist)
2014 Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Annual Conference, Iowa City, “Writing
Dancing/Dancing Writing” (Panelist)
2013 College English Association of Ohio Annual Conference, Dayton, Ohio,
“Embracing Difficulty: Poetry’s Place in the Composition Classroom”
(Presentation)
2013 Digital Expo Annual Conference, Miami University of Ohio “Choreographed Text”
(Presentation)

SELECTED READINGS

2019 Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA (September)

2019 Malaprops Books, Asheville, NC, William Matthews Poetry Prize Reading (August)
2018 Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC (November)
2018 Open Mouth Poetry Festival, Fayetteville, AR (November)
2018 Joseph-Beth Books, Cincinnati (October)
2018 Books by the Banks, Cincinnati (October)

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2018 Southern Festival of the Book, Nashville (October)
2018 Bowling Green State University (October)
2018 Xavier University (September)
2018 Greensboro Bound Literary Festival (May)
2018 Utica College (April)
2018 KGB Bar Poetry Series, NYC (April)
2018 Poetry Center of Chicago (March)
2018 AWP Conference Tampa, Offsite Reading, 32 Poems, Adroit Journal, Agni, Denver
Quarterly, and Quarterly West (March)
2017 Trevecca Nazarene University (December)
2017 Mercantile Library, Book launch for Darwin’s Mother, Cincinnati (November)
2017 Cincinnati Public Library (April)
2016 Poets-in-Print Reading Series, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, MI (November)
2016 Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI (November)
2016 Knox College (May)
2015 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Poets on Tour Series (October)
2015 Washington & Jefferson College (October)
2015 Cincinnati Art Museum (October)
2015 So & So Reading Series, Raleigh, NC (September)
2015 Sewanee Writers Conference, Fellow Reading (July)
2015 AWP Conference Minneapolis, Pitt Poetry Series Reading (April)
2015 Art Academy of Cincinnati (March)
2015 Northern Kentucky University (March)
2014 Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY (November)
2014 Sarah Lawrence College (October)
2014 Miami University of Ohio (October)
2014 West End Poetry Festival, Chapel Hill, NC (October)
2014 University of North Carolina at Greensboro (October)
2014 Heterotopia Books, Book launch for Best Bones, Cincinnati, (October)
2013 AWP Conference Boston, Offsite Reading, “Monster Mags of the Midwest”: Mid-
American Review, Ninth Letter, and Cincinnati Review (March)
2012 Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Fellow Reading (April)
2012 New England Institute of Art (February)
2009 Provincetown Poetry and Literary Arts Festival (April)
2009 Fine Arts Work Center, Poetry Fellow Reading (April)

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Service

ACADEMIC SERVICE

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

2016-2017 Secretary, English Graduate Organization
Planned informational workshops for new graduate students on topics such as
university funding and summer opportunities, course teaching proposals, and
developing exam lists. Kept minutes for organization meetings.

2016-2017 Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee

Represented the interests of graduate students in policy meetings regarding the
dispersal of departmental grants and awards, admissions processes and policies,
program recruitment, and degree requirements.

Miami University of Ohio, Middletown, OH

2012-2014 Chair, Communications Board
Led the committee that serves as liaison between the student media organizations
on campus, including the literary journal, student radio station, and campus
newspaper.

2013 Moderator, English Language Table

Co-founded and moderated a weekly discussion group for a new cohort of Chinese
students on campus. This group provided an informal, supportive atmosphere of
cultural exchange between international and American students.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2017 Preliminary Judge

Poet Laureate Award, North Carolina Poetry Society

2016 & 2017 Reader

Michael Waters Poetry Book Prize, Southern Indiana Review

2016 Final Judge

Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, North Carolina Writers Network and storySouth

2016 Final Judge

Davenport Poetry Awards, Knox College

2013 & 2015 Judge

Malcolm Sedam Writing Awards, Miami University Middletown

2012 Thesis Committee Member

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 High School Honors Thesis of Danielle Moragne, Sacred Heart Preparatory,
Atherton, CA, Fall 2012

2011-2012 Poetry Jury Member

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

References

George David Clark

Editor-in-Chief, 32 Poems
Assistant Professor, Washington and Jefferson College, gclark@washjeff.edu, (501) 773-4545

John Drury
Professor, University of Cincinnati, john.drury@uc.edu, (513) 556-3948

Lisa Hogeland
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, lisa.hogeland@uc.edu, (513) 556-0927

Rebecca Lindenberg
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, rebecca.lindenberg@uc.edu, (513) 556-1334

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