CV - Elizabeth Knapp

EDUCATION

Western Michigan University

PhD in English with Creative Writing Emphasis, June 2008
Dissertation: Intimacy (poetry)
Committee: Dr. William Olsen (director), Dr. Nancy Eimers, Anne Marie Macari
Areas of Specialization:
- American Literature
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Women’s and Gender Studies

The Bennington Writing Seminars

MFA in Creative Writing, January 2000
Thesis: The Mind of Water (poetry)
Committee: April Bernard (director), Thomas Sayers Ellis, Jane Hirshfield

Amherst College

BA in English and Fine Arts (magna cum laude), May 1996
Thesis: Songlines (poetry)
Committee: Judith Frank (director), April Bernard, Karl Kirchwey

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of English & Communication Arts, Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program

Hood College, Department of English & Communication Arts, Frederick, MD, Fall 2008 – present

Doctoral Associate

Western Michigan University, Department of English, Kalamazoo, MI, Fall 2004 – Spring 2008

Teaching Assistant

The Prague Summer Program, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005

Adjunct English Faculty

Orange Coast College, Department of English, Costa Mesa, CA, Spring 2000

ESL Instructor

Concordia University, English Language School, Irvine, CA, Spring 1999

COURSES TAUGHT

Hood College

Advanced Poetry Writing
African American Poetry
American Literature
American Transcendentalism & Dark Romanticism
The Coming of Age Story
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Writing
Elizabeth Bishop & Sylvia Plath
Forms in Poetry
Intermediate Poetry Writing
Modern American Poetry
Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson
Women’s Poetry
Writing on Art

Western Michigan University

American Literature to 1865
Advanced Poetry Writing
Introduction to Writing Fiction and Poetry

The Prague Summer Program

Poetry Workshop with Anne Marie Macari and Maurya Simon

Orange Coast College

Freshman Composition

Concordia College

English as a Second Language

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, The Washington Writers’ Publishing House, October 2019
The Spite House, C&R Press, May 2011

Anthologies

This Is What America Looks Like: The Washington Writers’ Publishing House Anthology, “The New Normal,” 2020
Best New Fictions 2020, “Palomas, Ciudad de Mexico,” 2020
More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems, “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Muse,” 2020
Come as You Are: An Anthology of 90s Pop Culture, “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Imaginary Friend,” 2017
Best New Poets 2007, “Betray,” 2007
Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, “Spiderman Contemplates Cryonic Suspension as Religion,” “Spiderman Converts to Buddhism,” “Spiderman Is Stranded in Florence the Week of 9/11,” “Spiderman on the Paradigm of Marriage,” 2003
Catena, “After Thebes,” 2003

Journals

Gargoyle, “Black Friday,” “Self-Portrait as Stormy Daniels off Camera,” 2019
North American Review, “Hysterectomy,” “Koko the Gorilla Is Dead,” “Like Running into Hillary Clinton in the Woods,” “Threnody with a White Ford Bronco inside It,” 2019
Poetry Northwest, “Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born,” 2019
Salamander, “Meditation,” “Postmortem,” 2018
The Carolina Quarterly, “The Cemetery Is Full of People Who Would Love to Have Your Problems,” “Self-Elegy with Hand Grenade,” 2018
Green Mountains Review, “Palomas, Ciudad de Mexico,” 2018
Ghost Town, “My Past Life as a Card Shark,” “My Past Life as a Rock Star,” 2018
Cider Press Review, “My Past Life as a Puritan,” “My Past Life as the Wife of Herman Melville,” 2018, “Cambria, Easter Sunday,” 2002
Sugar House Review, “Hunter’s Moon, Gettysburg,” 2018
The Massachusetts Review, “Sixth Year: Iron,” 2018, “Intimacy,” 2006
Harpur Palate, “Transfiguration,” “Ninth Year: Willow,” 2018
Valparaiso Poetry Review, “After the Flood,” 2018
Kenyon Review, “Lament in the Style of Monica Lewinsky’s Blue Dress,” “Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account,” 2018
Beloit Poetry Journal, “Curiosity Sings Happy Birthday to Itself,” 2018
Quarterly West, “My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard,” 2018
Barrow Street, “Fifth Year: Wood,” 2018, “The Dead Sea,” 2007
Southern Poetry Review, “Eighth Year: Bronze,” 2018
32 Poems, “Faith,” 2017
Cimarron Review, “Recurring Dream: Elevator,” 2017
The Journal, “Starman Tractate #1: Looking for Your Ass,” “Starman Tractate #2: Homo Superior,” 2017
B O D Y, “Cache la Poudre,” “My Past Life as a Songbird,” 2017
Rattle, “The Year of the Eclipse,” 2017
River Styx, “The Great Mysteries,” 2017
Rise Up Review, “Fourth of July,” 2017
Sonora Review, “Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature,” 2017
Split Lip Magazine, “My Past Life as a Dinosaur,” 2017
DMQ Review, “My Past Life as a Supernova,” 2017, “Eurydice’s Lament,” 2002, “Postscript from Hades,” 2001
Literary Mama, “Capital I,” 2017
Mom Egg Review, “During the Glucose Tolerance Test,” 2017
New Orleans Review, “Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak,” 2017
LUMINA, “Elegy with Spray Paint Can,” 2017
What Rough Beast, “Is That a Gun in Your Pocket,” 2017
The Ekphrastic Review, “Last Tango in Paris,” “Minority Report,” 2016
Spoon River Poetry Review, “Self-Portrait as the Love Child of Kurt Cobain and Emily Dickinson,” 2016
Jam Tarts, “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain Wrestling with the Angel,” “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Hungry Ghost,” “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Left-Handed Guitar,” “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Muse,” 2016
Literal Latté, “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain in Drag,” “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Childhood Wound,” 2016
Free State Review, “On Poets Who Grow Beards,” 2015
The Adirondack Review, “Elegy with a Cameo Appearance by Linda Ronstadt,” “Song While the Children Are Napping,” “Your Life Is Meaningless,” 2015
Ekphrasis, “Goya’s Red Boy,” “The Young Virgin,” 2014
The Offending Adam, “Ark,” “The Oak,” “Spiderman on the Archeology of Memory,” 2012
CUTTHROAT, “What Clytemnestra Saw,” 2009
The Laurel Review, “The Garden,” 2008
Iron Horse Literary Review, “The Crossing,” “Reading Jack Gilbert,” “Self-Portrait: Cold Shoulder,” 2007
RHINO, “On Running into Jorie Graham in a Bathroom Stall at the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, or the Poem I Always Wanted to Write about Antigone,” 2007
Flights, “Ossuary,” “Self-Portrait as Japanese Stripper,” 2006
Mid-American Review, “The Burning Bush,” “Lost Letter #9,” “Lost Letter #12,” 2006
Washington Square, “Lost Letter #7,” Lost Letter #13,” 2006
Post Road, “Indelible,” “Uninvited Guest,” 2005
AGNI Online, “Self-Portrait as Amputation,” 2005
Crab Orchard Review, “Spiderman Considers a Career Change,” 2004
Poet Lore, “Backyard Light, Late February,” 2002

Websites

The Drum, “Capital I,” “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain Wrestling with the Angel,” “Is That a Gun in Your Pocket,” 2019

Academy of American Poets, “My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard,” “Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born,” “Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Account,” “Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak,” 2018

Poetry Society of America, “Fourth of July,” 2018

Verse Daily, “Uninvited Guest,” 2011

Writers at Work, “The Burning Bush,” 2011

AWARDS AND HONORS

Winner

Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, 2019
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 2018
Maryland State Artist Council Individual Artist Award, 2017
Literal Latté Poetry Award, “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain in Drag,” “Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s Childhood Wound,” 2015
De Novo Prize for Poetry, C&R Press, The Spite House, 2010
Discovered Voices Award, Iron Horse Literary Review, “The Crossing,” “Reading Jack Gilbert,” “Self-Portrait: Cold Shoulder,” 2007
Best New Poets, Open Competition, Meridian, “Betray,” 2007
Graduate Poetry Award, Western Michigan University, “Intimacy,” 2006

Finalist

Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, “Against Relatability,” 2021
James Hearst Poetry Prize, “Like Running into Hillary Clinton in the Woods,” 2019
Moon City Press Poetry Award, Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, 2019
Pleiades Press Editors’ Prize, Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, 2018
42 Miles Press Poetry Award, Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, 2018
Cider Press Review Book Award (Runner-up), The Spite House, 2009
Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize, The Spite House, 2008
Richard Snyder Publication Prize, The Spite House, 2007

Semifinalist

Julie Suk Prize for Best Poetry Book (Longlist), Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, 2020
The Word Works Washington Prize, Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak, 2018
University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series, The Spite House, 2008
Crab Orchard Review Open and First Book Competitions, The Spite House, 2006, 2007
Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes, The Spite House, 2006
Elixir Poetry Prize, The Spite House, 2006
Morse Poetry Prize, The Spite House, 2006

Nominations

AWP Intro Journals Project, “Self-Portrait as Japanese Stripper,” 2004, “Self Portrait as Amputation,” 2005, “Self-Portrait: Cold Shoulder,” 2006
Pushcart Prize, Post Road, “Uninvited Guest,” 2006, C&R Press, “Betray,” “Intimacy,” “Self-Portrait Triptych: Japanese Stripper,” 2011
Bettering American Poetry Volume 3, Rise Up Review, “Fourth of July,” 2018

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Poetry Editor

The Baltimore Review, November 2018 – present

Conference Faculty

The Hood College Young Writers’ Conference, August 2010

Visiting Writer

Meacham Writers’ Workshop, Fall 2008

Assistant Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program

Western Michigan University, 2005 – 2007