Vita

KATHERINE MCCORD

EDUCATION

MFA, Poetry, Warren Wilson College (1996)
MA, English/Creative Writing/Composition Studies, New Mexico State University (1992)
BS, English (minors: education and sociology), Middle Tennessee University (1987)

PUBLICATIONS

Books:
Island (poetry), March Street Press, 2002
Living Room (prose poetry), March Street Press, 2004
My CIA: A Memoir (literary memoir), Telling Our Stories Press, 2012
RUN SCREAM UNBURY SAVE (literary memoir), winner of the Autumn House Press Open Book Award, judged by Michael Martone, February 2017
Muse Annie (poetry chapbook), Kattywompus Press, 2017

Poems:
“Who’s been out of town?” forthcoming in Is Reads
“Annie, when I’m finally ready to write. . . .” in American Poetry Review, March/April 2010
“I want to take off the ends of words. . . .” in American Poetry Review, March/April 2010
“It isn’t a dream.” in American Poetry Review, March/April 2010
“Oh, Annie, Bangladesh and La Jolla. . . .” in American Poetry Review, March/April 2010
“Oh, Annie, everyone waves bright fans.” in American Poetry Review, March/April 2010
“I write a book for her,” in Fogged Clarity, December 2009
“In the dream upon,” in Fogged Clarity, December 2009
“Break it down, Annie,” in Margie, 2008 “Goddamnit, Annie,” in Chiron Review, Autumn 2008
“What do you want from me?” in Chiron Review, Autumn 2008
“Winter” in Bogg, 2007
“Annie, all I’m saying. . . .” in Paragraph, Summer 2005
“I guess the” in Red Rock Review, Summer 2005
“It occurs” in Red Rock Review, Summer 2005
“It’s a catholic memory” in Red Rock Review, Summer 2005
“It’s the bird” in Red Rock Review, Summer 2005
“August 16th” in The Louisiana Review, Fall/Winter, 2004-05
“In the row of” in Cutbank, Fall 2004
“These” in Cutbank, Fall 2004
“Hear the locusts” in Mankato, May 2004
“I’m frozen.” in Mankato, May 2004
“It isn’t over. The” in Mankato, May 2004
“September 26th” in Puerto del Sol, Summer 2003
“Halloween” In Connecticut River Review, Spring and Summer 2003
“Hepatic Tanager” in Small Pond, Spring 2003
“February 27th” in Bogg, 2003
“Sun” in Blueline, 2003
“Art” in Lullwater Review, Winter 2002
“Over this Bridge” in Parting Gifts, Summer 2002
“Spring March 10th” in Harpur Palate, Summer 2002
“Texas Highway” in Parting Gifts, Summer 2002
“Axis” in Lullwater Review, Spring 2002
“Say You Are Me” in Sierra Songs, an anthology, 2002
“Shoes” in Salamander, 2002
“Writing” in Primavera, 2002
“Corn” in The Portland Review, Summer 2001
“After Muriel Rukeyser’s “Islands”” in Westview, Spring/Summer 2001
“If It Was a Tree House” in Great River Review, Spring/Summer 2001
“House Hunting” in Karamu, Spring 2001
“Backdrop” in Rhino, 2001
“Island” in Visions-International, 2001
“Foreigner” in Timber Creek Review, Fall 2000
“January” in Timber Creek Review, Spring 2000
“The Beginning of My Life” in Heliotrope, 2000
“Mirror” in American Writing: A Magazine, 2000
“The Conservation of Energy” in Poet Lore, Winter 1999-2000
“Snapshot” in Nightsun, Fall 1999
“Vanishing Point” in Nightsun, Fall 1999
“Delivery” in Antietam Review, Spring 1998
“Light” in Antietam Review, Spring 1998
“Letters After Miscarriage” in Poet Lore, Winter 1996-97
“In the Emergency Room” in The Chester H. Jones Foundation’s anthology, National Poetry Competition Winners 1996
“April, Noon” in Puerto del Sol, Spring 1995
“Fall” in Puerto del Sol, Spring 1995
“Carnival” in Chaminade, Spring/Fall 1992
“Grandmother’s China” in The Maryland Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1992
“Bare Earth” in The Paris/Atlantic, 1991
“Night-light” in The Paris/Atlantic, 1991
“A Poem” in Mountain Passages, Fall/Winter 1990-91
“Peregrine Falcon” in Aura Literary Arts Review, Fall/Winter 1990
“Composing” in Voices International, Fall 1990
“Edges” in Collage, Spring 1990
“Mourning” in Lucidity, December 1988

Prose:
“An Essay/Review of Sonya Huber’s Extremely Tiny Acts,” Essay Daily, January 24, 2022
“Found Poetry: The Wellspring,” Women on Writing, August 15, 2018
“Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, And Other Essays From A Nervous System, A Menu, by Sonya Huber; Temporium: Before the Beginning to After the End, A Menu, by Kelly Cherry; Run Scream Unbury Save, A Menu, by Katherine McCord; Plath’s work, A Menu, by Katherine McCord,” Essay Daily, January 29, 2018
“A Review That’s Really an Essay About Sonya Huber’s Book, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and More.” in Compulsive Reader, March 29, 2017
“I don’t know what the truth is” in Plath Profiles, 2012
“My CIA,” an excerpt (62 pages from book-length manuscript, My CIA), in South Loop Review, Volume 11
“Muse Annie” in Caketrain, 2008
“A Case Against Memoir” in Small Press Review, May-June 2005

Reviews:
“An Essay/Review of Sonya Huber’s Extremely Tiny Acts,” Essay Daily, January 24, 2022
Review of Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, Midwest Book Review, January 3, 2021
Review of 81 Mygrations by Bill Buckley, Compulsive Reader, December 1, 2017
Review of Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher and Anger and the Indigo Child by Dianne Lancaster, Compulsive Reader, May 2017
Review of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber, Compulsive Reader, April 2017 (Quoted on Huber’s website)
Review of Easy by Roland Flint in Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, February 2000

Papers:
Abstract of “The Prairie Woman’s Oppressed Individuality in Hamlin Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads” in The Tennessee Philological Bulletin, 1990

WORKS IN PROGRESS

You: A Novel

AWARDS AND HONORS

Longlist, You; Short and Longlist Honorees for the 2021 Nonfiction Prize, Dzanc Books, November 30, 2021
Juried Book Signing for Run Scream Unbury Save, Eclecticity, April 22, 2018 and September 30, 2018
Featured Writer, Women on Writing, 4-19-18
I Don’t Believe, an excerpt from my book-length essay-in-progress, finalist for the Faulkner Wisdom Competition, 2017
Juried Reading, Calvary Women’s Services, Calvary Center, Washington DC, via a grant from Poets and Writers, 2017 and 2018
An excerpt from Run Scream Unbury Save, finalist for the Fank McCourt Memoir Prize, The Southhampton Review, May 24, 2017
Juried Reading, The Inner Loop: A Literary Reading Series, March 22, 2017
Juried Reading, Inner Loop, Washington, DC, March 20, 2017
Honorable Mention, New Delta Review Chapbook Contest, for Muse Annie, January 27, 2017
Finalist, C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Contest, for my manuscript, Muse Annie, December 21, 2016
Gallery of Gifts: My book art, Muse Annie II and Living Room, chosen by judges for juried show, Carroll County Arts Center, December 2016
Autumn House Press Open Book Award in Creative Nonfiction for my manuscript, Run Scream Unbury Save, judge, Michael Martone, August 2016
Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Legacy (Creative) Nonfiction Award, 2016, for My CIA
Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award, 2016, finalist, one of three
2016 Professional Achievement Award, UMUC, for my creative writing
Juried Reading, Gabehart Prize Winners, University of Kentucky Women Writers
Conference, September 12, 2015
Gabehart Prize in Creative Nonfiction; And one more thing about the CIA or The Unusual Handbook or Run, Scream, Unbury, Save; 2015
Asked to read from my memoir, My CIA, as part of the Baltimore Book Festival for winning a Baker Artist Award, September 2014
Maryland Individual Artist Award in Poetry, 2014
My CIA art installation captured and catalogued in b is for baltimore: Baker Artist Awards magazine, along with my writer/artist statement, December 2013
My CIA showcased on Maryland Public Television’s The 2013 Baker Artist Awards: An Artworks Special, May 2, 2013
Merit-based fellowship awarded for my creative nonfiction manuscript, Spring Explains, along with being awarded finalist status and “shortlisted,” Summer Literary Seminars, April 19, 2013
My CIA: A Memoir named one of “Twelve Great Nonfiction Works (an ongoing list)” by the Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy and Humanities, April 2013
My CIA: A Memoir named one of the ten Best Books of 2012 by the Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy and Humanities, January 2013
Baker Artist Award, 2012
Pushcart Prize Nomination for excerpt from My CIA: A Memoir, 2012
Reading, Maryland Individual Artist Award Recipients in Poetry, CityLit Project, Baltimore Book Festival, September 24, 2011
Maryland Individual Artist Award in Poetry, 2011
Asked to read my creative work, My CIA, at Defining the New: Experiments and Innovations in English Studies at Ohio University, sponsored by the English Department and Quarter After Eight, October 22, 2010
Finalist, Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2011 Emerging Writer Fellowship Competition, The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 2010
Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Muse Annie" (ten of my prose poems melded into a story), 2010
Asked to record a podcast, an original series, Fogged Clarity, where the poems are also posted on their website, “I write a book for her” and “In the dream upon,” from Blowback, December 2009
Runner-up, Scholarship Contest, The Bear River Writers’ Conference, 2005
Finalist, 2002 Joaquin Miller Cabin Reading Series, Washington, DC Finalist for Island, Autumn House Press Open Competition, 2001
Fellowship, Great River Art Institute’s Poetry Conference, Spirit & the Letter, Patzcuaro, Mexico, 2000
Invited to be listed in New Mexico Writer’s Roster through TumbleWords, a Project of New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs, March 1999
Semi-Finalist, 1999 “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Contest, judged by Grace Schulman and Phillis Levin
Finalist, 1998 Joaquin Miller Cabin Reading Series, Washington, DC
Finalist for “Over this Bridge,” Poet Lore Narrative Poetry Competition, 1997
Honorable Mention for “In the Emergency Room,” The Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition 1996, judged by John Drury, Marie Ponsot, and Diane Wakoski
Finalist for “Verse for My Brother,” The Maryland Poetry Review Poetry Contest, Spring 1992
Graduate assistantship, New Mexico State University, 1990-92
Graduate assistantship, Middle Tennessee State University, 1989-90
Honorable Mention, Lucidity Poetry Contest, 1988
Homer Pittard Creative Writing Scholarship, Middle Tennessee State University, 1987
Summa Cum Laude Graduate, Middle Tennessee State University, 1987
Gamma Beta Phi National Collegiate Honor Service, Middle Tennessee State University, 1985-87
Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary Society, Middle Tennessee State University, 1985-87
Education Ambassador Nominee, University of Missouri, 1985
Dean’s List, Middle Tennessee State University and University of Missouri, 1983-87
Kappa Delta Pi National Education Honor Society, University of Missouri and Middle Tennessee State University, 1983-87

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching:
Tutor, Wyzant Creative Writing Literature, online and traditionally, 2017 - 2021
Instructor, Story Circle Network; Loft; Women on Writing; The Writer’s Center; Writing Workshops Dallas
Poetry; Found Poetry; The Broadside/Broadsheet; Literary Memoir and other Creative Nonfiction; Fiction, online and traditionally, 2017 to 2021
Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland University College Introduction to Fiction Writing Creative Nonfiction Writing Advanced Poetry Writing Novel Writing Introduction to Creative Writing, 2011 to 2017, all online
Adjunct Professor, Stevenson University Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop Introduction to Creative Writing Writing About Literature Honors Composition Composition and Writing from Sources, 2009 to 2017
Instructor, Carroll Community College Continuing Education Department Writer’s Workshop Lyric Essay Workshop Poetry Writing Workshop Contemporary Short Story, 2009 to 2011
Lecturer, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Community College Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop Poetry Writing Workshop, 2000 to 2004
Lecturer, Western Maryland College Composition and Reading, 1996
Instructor, New Mexico State University Freshman Composition, 1995
Instructor, El Paso Community College Developmental Composition, 1994
Instructor, Dona Ana Branch Community College Introduction to Literature
Technical and Scientific Communication Literature and Culture Freshman Composition, 1992-94
Instructor, University of Texas at El Paso Basic English Composition, 1992
Teacher, Upward Bound, New Mexico State University Language Arts III, 1992
Graduate Teaching Assistant, New Mexico State University Advanced Composition Freshman Honors Composition Freshman Composition Writing Laboratory, 1990-92
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Middle Tennessee State University Freshman Composition, 1989-90
Teacher, Fairview High School Advanced Placement English, twelfth grade Basic Skills English, twelfth grade Standard English, twelfth grade Honors English, tenth grade Standard English, tenth grade, 1988-89
Student Teacher, Oakland High School College Preparatory English, eleventh grade, 1988

Editing/Freelance Writing:
Reviewer, literary memoir, Publishers Weekly, January 2019 to present
Writer, DocRocket Jobsite Project, April 2009
Assistant Poetry Editor, 42opus, January 2007 to 2009
Editor, Consultant, NES Arnold (1996)
Associate Editor (fiction and poetry), Puerto del Sol, New Mexico State University (1991-92)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Book Signing for Run Scream Unbury Save, Autumn House, Associated Writing Conference, February 7, 2017
Professional Member, PEN America, 2015 to the present
Asked to read from my creative nonfiction manuscript, And one more thing about the CIA, New Deal Cafe, May 21, 2015
Taught High School Poetry Writing Workshop for Stevenson University, July 2014 and 2015, June 2016
Reading from My CIA and interview of me done by Aaron Henkin, “The Signal,” WYPR, NPR, January 31, 2014
Asked to record a podcast, an original series, Fogged Clarity, of two of my poems, “I write a book for her” and “In the dream upon,” from Blowback, where the poems are also posted on their website, December 2009
Poetry Workshop, Arts Night, Piney Ridge Elementary School, April 2008
Reading, The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, Maryland, November 4, 2007
Reading, University of New Mexico - Valencia, April 23 and 24, 2003
Reading, Olde Dana Book Store, February 12, 2002
Reading, New Mexico State University, January 24, 2002
“Engineering Poetry” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 22, 2002
Instructor, Poetry Writing Workshop, Ladders in the Dark, Growing through Loss Conference, March 8, 2002
Invited to have my poem, “Bittersweet,” appear on the website of Matchbook in early 2002
Reading from my book, Living Room, and talk, Living Room: When Poetry Takes Up Prose, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, October 17, 2001
Reading, KUNM, 89.9 FM, June 15, 2001
Arrangement for reading by visiting poet, David St. John, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, sponsored by the Humanities Department, April 25, 2001
Arrangements and introductions for open mic poetry readings by students, faculty, and community members; New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2000 to 2002
Reading, National Poetry Month Celebration, April 27, 2000
Member, Poets and Writers, 2000 to the present
Member, Associated Writing Programs, 2000 to the present
Member, The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, Maryland, 1996-97
Reading, Warren Wilson College, January 7, 1996
“Poppies in January”: The drafts of Sylvia Plath’s poppy poems, her writing process, ours, how poems unfurl; graduate class taught at Warren Wilson College, January 5, 1996
Teacher, Healing Through the Arts, New Mexico State University, Spring 1993 and Spring 1995
Teaching Developmental Composition, workshop with Toby Fulwiler, Fall 1993
Teacher, Poetry Workshop, Hillrise Elementary Enrichment Program, Fall 1992
Reading, New Mexico State University, March 26, 1992
Reading, KRUX 91.5 FM, February 12, 1992
Judge, Southwest High School Creative Writing Awards, 1991 and 1992
Member, La Sociedad Para Las Artes, 1990-92
Teaching College Composition, workshop with Ed White, Fall 1991
“The Prairie Woman’s Oppressed Individuality in Hamlin Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads” presented at the Tennessee Philological Conference, February 1990
Teacher, Poetry Workshop, Scholars; Institute, Summer 1988

SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ON PUBLISHED WORK

Review of Run Scream Unbury Save, Split Rock Review, October 2017
Review of Run Scream Unbury Save, storySouth, Fall 2017
Review of Run Scream Unbury Save, Mom Egg Review, August 7, 2017
Review of Run Scream Unbury Save, Emotional Wellness Institute, June 2017
Review of Run Scream Unbury Save, Atticus, May 2017
Review of Run Scream Unbury Save, Brevity, May 2017
Review of My CIA, listed as “starred,” Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH), chosen for list of all-time best books out of 5000 reviewed since 1994, Early Spring, 2017
Review of My CIA, “Indie Book Radar,” “The Beam,” The Spark, March 30, 2016
“My CIA,” by Scott Braden,” News-Post, January 26, 2014
5: Baker Artist Awards, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, 2014
“Writing about the “Unknowable,”” by Scott Braden, Carroll Magazine, April 2, 2013
Review of My CIA, Reviewer’s Choice, Small Press Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review, January 2013
Review of My CIA, “12 Great Nonfiction Works,” 2013 b is for Baltimore, Baker Artist Awards, MICA MFA in Curatorial Practice, 2013
Review of My CIA, by Sarah Fox, Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and Humanities, 2012
Review in South Loop Review, “My CIA,” by Sima Rabinowitz, Newpages.com, February 2010
Review of Living Room, by Jeanie C. Williams, Southwest BookViews, Autumn 2005
Review of Island, by Miriam Sagan, The New Mexican, Sunday, January 18, 2004
“Compelled To Write,” Island, by John Larson,” Mountain Mail, 2004
“In her own words,” by Pepita Ridgeway, El Defensor Chieftain, January 25, 2003
Review of Island, by Sheila Cowing, Southwest BookViews, Autumn 2003

RECOMMENDATIONS

Ms. Marianne Boruch, Poet and Professor of English/Creative Writing, Purdue University and Warren Wilson College
Mr. David St. John, Poet and Professor of English/Creative Writing, University of Southern California
Ms. Dianne Lancaster, Writer
Mr. Kevin McIlvoy, Writer and Professor of Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College

RECOMMENDERS, my past professors from which I have recommendation letters and who were listed as recommenders on my vita before they died:
Roland Flint, was Poet and Professor of English/Creative Writing, Georgetown
University and Warren Wilson College, and Poet Laureate of Maryland
Kathleene West, was Poet and Professor of English/Creative Writing, New Mexico State University, and for whom I was named literary executor, as stated in her will, upon her death
Renate Wood, was Poet and Professor of Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College
Steve Orlen, was Poet and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Arizona and Warren Wilson College