Education



EducationPhD University of Louisville, Humanities. Coursework in Comparative Humanities with certificates in Public History and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. University Fellowship Recipient. Expected 2022.MFANaropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Creative Writing & Poetics. Coursework in Pedagogy, Poetics, Literature, and Creative Writing. Graduate Commencement Speaker. kari edwards Scholarship Recipient. 3.97/4.0 GPA. June 2018.Master’s Thesis: “The Untranslatability of ‘Translation’,” a paper synthesizing translation theory towards a new paradigm, and “Rural Triptych,” a compilation of essays and original translations of Federico García Lorca’s “Rural Trilogy”: “Yerma,” “Bodas de sangre,” and “La casa de Bernarda Alba”BAUniversity of Chicago. Theatre & Performance Studies. Minors in English & Creative Writing and Cinema & Media Studies. 3.8/4.0 GPA. June 2014.Undergraduate Thesis: “How Lorca: The Performance of Recontextualization with the Poet-Playwright”, including a critical essay, performance art piece, poetry and stage play translations, and translator’s noteHonors & AwardsMaddox Prize Winner, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Louisville“After After Lorca: Homage, Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and Garcia Lorca,” Doctoral Student Writing AwardInaugural Orinda Award for Best New TranslationWorkshop and staged reading awarded to “Barrens”, translated from Lorca’s “YermaNaropa University Commencement 2018 Graduate Speakerkari edwards scholarship for experimental & gender-based activist writing, Naropa University Summer Writing ProgramGraduate Student Leader of the Year Award, Naropa University Student Engagement AwardsArtistic Community Student Group Award for “BEATS”, Naropa University Student Engagement AwardsHenderson Area Arts Alliance GrantTowards poetry workshops at the Henderson Public LibraryAwesome Foundation: Boulder Grant Project: Producer of “HOWL: A Ginsberg Birthday Party” at the Fox Theatre, including over 20 actsDCASE Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of ChicagoProject: “Lorca in America” involving the production of 2 new Lorca plays by the recipient’s company Poetry Is Productions201920182018201820182018201720172015Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Best New PlayAwarded to “PLATH/HUGHES”2014University of Chicago Student Marshal2014Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Campus Consortium GrantProject: “Venetian Artisanship and Climate Change”Grant to travel to Venice, Italy and report on the ground about climate change and the artsSelections: “State of Glass”, “Venetian Artisanship and Climate Change Podcast Parts 1 -4”University of Chicago Arts Council Grants2014-152012, 2013PublicationsBooksWe Knew No Mortality with Acta PublicationsFull-length Poetry & Prose Collection30 Days Dry with Thought Collection PublishingDebut Chapbook-length Poetry CollectionPrint, 2018Print & E-Book, 2015Ca’Venezia and other tales with Partial PressLimited Edition Artist’s Book (Poetry/Prose/Hybrid Writing) & Web ContentPrint & Online, expected ScholarshipSigns and Society, University of Chicago Press“After After Lorca: Anamnesis and Magic between Jack Spicer and García Lorca”Gender ForumBook Review: Nepantla AnthologyJacket2“Spelling for Humanity” Book Review of Spells 2019 Plath Profiles, Indiana University Press“Animal Trapping Exercise” and selections from original musical “PLATH/HUGHES”Print & Online, Fall 2019Expected Online,Spring 2020Online,Fall 2019Online,Summer 2019 TranslationAsymptote Journal of Translation“Barrens, from Lorca’s ‘Yerma’”, selected by Caridad SvichExchanges Journal of Translation at the University of IowaPoetry by Giuseppe Gioachino BelliColumbia JournalPoem: “A Mistranslation of Dante's Inferno”The Adirondack ReviewPoetry by Lorca: “Narcissus”, “Sleepwalker’s Ballad”, “Nueva York (Office and Denunciation)”, “Adam”Online, Spring 2020Online & Print, 2018Online, 2017Online, 2017PoetryBombay Gin #45SWP Portfolio: Call Me [Brackets]Poem: “forest gash”Cigar City Poetry JournalPoem: “Instructions for Tapered Ribbon”Featured on KRFY 88.5, Songs-Voices-Poems with Jackie HenrionPoem: “Old Kuttawa And The Flood”Gordian ReviewPoem: “If Once You Were German”BEATS: Eco-MagickPoem: “Halloween Night”Kairos Literary JournalPoem: “Body: Domain”Water, Water EverywherePoem: “Sublimation”Beats: A Naropan Periodical: Mental HealthPoem: “Reductive Motions”Verde Que Te Quiero Verde with Open Country PressPoem: “ HYPERLINK "" Impicture”Tooth N’ Nail AnthologyPoems: “Sammie Jo”, “Sammie Jo Speaks”, “Sammie Jo Redux”, “Jo Reborn”Thought Notebook WebzinePoem: “If A Hobo”Mosaic Literary JournalPlay: “Death at a Reading: or, Poetic Justice”Baseball BardPoem: “America’s Game”Roots Student Literary JournalPoems: “Confirmation”, “Creed”, “If Once You Were German”, “Set”Thought NotebookPoem: “I Am/Who Am”Literature Emitting Diodes AnthologyPoem: “I Am Solar”Chicago After Dark AnthologyPoem: “City of Steel”Rollick MagazinePoems: “Sammie Jo”, “Ca’Venezia: Your Voice”, “Pins” Print, Expected 2019 Online & Print, 2019 Online & Print 2019 Radio, 2018 Online, 2018 Online & Print, 2017 Online & Print, 2017 Online, 2017 Print & Online, 2017 Print, 2017Print, 2017 Online, 2016Print, 2017Online, 2016 Online, 2016 Print, 2016Print, 2016 & Installation, 2015Print, 2014Online, 2015Essay/MemoirBarely South ReviewEssay: “Postface as Memory”Mount AnalogueEssay: “Activism and the Beats”Roar: Literature and Revolution by Feminist PeopleEssay: “Activism and the Beats”Punch Drunk PressEssay: “ HYPERLINK "mailto:" Ekphrasis of Sia”Online & Print, 2017Print & Online, 2017Online, 2017Online, 2017JournalismCampus Consortium Fellow, Pulitzer Center on Crisis ReportingFounding Editor, BEATSContributor, “Turnout: A Poetics Journalism Zine”Feature Contributor, Boulder WeeklyContributor to Boulderganic, Arts sectionsSelection: “Eat, Drink, or Shine?”2014-20152016-201820172016Head Arts Writer, Evanston NowLead point of contact for reviews and features on the artsSelections: “Sarah Ruhl – Interview with the Poet-Playwright”, “FBI Agent talks JFK ‘Assassination Theater’”2015-2016Arts Contributor, NewcitySelection: “Go South”Feature Contributor, Fra Noi MagazineArts Contributor, VAM MagazineSelection: “Delia Kropp”Feature Contributor, Artisan Magazine2014-20162015 20162015Productions and Writing/TheatreWriter/Director, “The Enormous Room”Staged Reading produced by Studio Theatre, University of LouisvilleWriter, “Lead Me Into Dark”Staged Reading for PlayDates produced by Pandora Productions, LouisvilleProducer, “2HOWL: The Second Coming”Produced at Naropa University by BEATSWriter, “Terrariums”Produced by Naropa University’s MFA Performance Program for “Embodied Poetics”Producer, “HOWL: A Ginsberg Birthday Party”Produced at Boulder’s Fox Theatre by Beats: A Naropan Periodical, Poetry Is Productions, The Fox, and the Boulder WeeklyWriter, “medea conjures dragons”Reading produced by Poetry Is ProductionsWriter, “PLATH/HUGHES”Produced at: Teatro LATEA in New York; Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, Gorilla Tango, and Rhinofest in ChicagoHighly Recommended by Chicago Stage Standard, Chicago CriticTranslator, “Buster Keaton Passes By” by Federico García LorcaProduced at: Abbie Fest and Skokie Theatre in Chicago 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 20172014-2016 2015Translator, “Bernarda Alba and Her House”Produced at Redtwist Theatre as a guest companyHighly Recommended by Chicago Critic, Windy City Times2015—2016Adaptor, “Wilde’s Salomé” 2016Produced at Gorilla Tango TheatreWriter, “Phaedra, Released.”Staged Reading at The Old Globe in San Diego; Produced at the Poetry Is Theatre FestivalHighly Recommended by Chicago ReaderAdaptor, “Iron Bridal Feast”Produced at the University of ChicagoTranslator, “Blood Weddin'”Produced at the University of ChicagoWriter, “Tiresias”Staged Reading at the Greenhouse Theatre; Produced at the University of ChicagoAdaptor, “Beowulf”Produced at the University of ChicagoWriter, “The Magic Thread”Staged Reading at Adventure Stage ChicagoAdaptor, “War of the Worlds”Produced at Gorilla Tango TheatreHighly Recommended by Chicago Stage StandardAdaptor, “The Music of Erich Zann”Produced at the Whiskey Rebellion Radio Hour and the Hyde Park Players’ Radio ShowWriter, “#409”Produced at American Theater CompanyWriter, “Box of Wind”Staged Reading at Horizon TheatreWriter, “Five Minute Flamenco”Staged Reading at Horizon TheatreWriter, “Lead Me Into Dark”Workshop Production at Theatre of Western SpringsWriter, “Death at a Reading”Produced at the University of ChicagoWriter, “Transformations: After Ovid”Staged Reading at Gorilla Tango Theatre20162014201320132012201620152015201320132013201520152015Introductions and Interviews Introduction for Lisa JarnotSummer Writing Program at Naropa UniversityIntroduction for Michelle Naka PierceSummer Writing Program at Naropa UniversityIntroduction for Sarah EscueWhat/Where Reading at Naropa UniversityInterviewed by States of the UnionPrintIntroduction for Eugene LimWhat/Where Reading at Naropa UniversityInterview of Sarah RuhlFor Evanston NowInterview of Chuck MeeFor Evanston NowInterviewed by Troy CabidaOnline, for release of “30 Days Dry”Interview by Kat LahrPrint, for Thought Notebook’s Artist to WatchInterviewed by University of ChicagoOnline, for Alumni WebsiteInterviewed by Chicago MagazineOnlineInterviewed by Evansville Courier & PressPrint and OnlineInterviewed by University of ChicagoOnline, for “Uniquely Chicago”2018201820172017201620162015201620162015201520152014Invited Talks/Conferences Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of LouisvillePanel “Unruly Women,” “Lorca’s Yerma”Chair: Mythopoetics; Horror, Affect, and RaceUniversity of Louisville Writing Center, Ethics and Writing PanelLouisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Louisville Creative Panel, “'Guarda L@s Ni?@s' and other poems”; Chair, “Experiments in Disruption”Kentucky Philological Association ConferencePaper: “After After Lorca: Homage, Anamnesis, and Magic between Jack Spicer and García Lorca" American Literary Translators Association Conference Panel presentation: “Transcreating Lorca’s Duende”Thomas R. Watson Conference on Making Future Matters Panel: “Redefining Eco-Pedagogy For the New Weathers”Naropa’s Summer Writing ProgramPanel: “Romancing Lorca”“Faith Quest” Author’s Panel, Holy Name ChurchColorado Translators Association ConferenceTalk: “The Untranslatability of ‘Translation’”Conference on Community WritingPanel presentation: “Eco-Pedagogy Praxis”Naropa’s Summer Writing ProgramPanel presentation: “Activism and the Beats”Colorado Wyoming Writing Center ConferencePanel presentation: “The Journalism Triangle as a Method of Academic Writing”Taking the Next StepUniversity of Chicago career development conference for undergraduates; arts roundtable discussion leader and Entertainment and Creative Arts panel participant2020201920192019201820182018201820182017 201720172017Instructing ExperienceClassroomInstructor, Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP):“Creative Writing”Designed course, instructed 6th-8th gradersInstructor, Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program:BA Writing SeminarInstructor, Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP):“Philosophy in Literature and Film”Designed course, instructed 8th-10th gradersGraduate Instructor, Naropa University:“Writing Seminar 1”Design syllabus, implement, instruction of undergraduate studentsTeaching Assistant, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School: “Writing Pedagogy Seminar”Designed and implemented lesson plans with instructor201820182017Fall 2017 & Spring 2018Spring 2018 & Spring 2017WorkshopsWorkshop Designer and Instructor: Chicago Public Library: “Identity Politics/Poetics: Writing/Reading for Diversity and Inclusion”Designed and implemented workshop at two Chicago branchesWeekend Workshop Designer and Instructor: Henderson County Public Library: “The Poetics of Space: Writers and their Environment”Designed and implemented three workshops and accompanying readings on Eco-Poetics, Contemporary Praxis, and PerformanceWorkshop Designer and Instructor, Boulder Public Library’s BLDG61: “Book Arts”Designed and implemented a workshop for adults on chapbook-makingWorkshop Designer and Instructor, University of Chicago’s Southside Scribblers at Ray Elementary: “For the Fun of It”Designed and implemented a workshop for middle and elementary school students on chapbook-making2017201720172017Workshop Designer and Instructor, Henderson County Public Library: “Writing What You Know”Designed and implemented a poetry workshop for adults on memoir and personal narrative2016Workshop Designer and Instructor: Chicago Public Library Archer Heights Branch: “Poetry As Performance”Designed and implemented a poetry workshop for adults on performance and alternative poetry2016Teaching ArtistTeaching Artist and Stage Manager: Northlight Theatre’s Education ProgramTeaching Artist and Playwright: American Theater Company’s Bridge ProgramWrote a new short play based on high-school students’ writing and led workshops with teaching artists and students20152014ConsultationHead Writing Fellow, Naropa Writing CenterGraduate Fellow position, main coordinator and administrator of the Writing Center and Core Writing Seminars Fall 2017Writing Fellow, Naropa Writing CenterGraduate Assistant position, conducting one-on-one writing sessions with Naropa students.Tutor, Nurturing WisdomTutor, Varsity Tutors2017-20182016-201820152017Administration & ManagementFrazier History Museum, Education InternPlath Profiles, Poetry EditorAcademic and Creative Journal at IU NorthwestStudent Union of Naropa Co-ChairStudent Government Co-PresidentStudent Union of Naropa Communications OfficerPoetry Is: A Sound Experience, Artistic Director and FounderOngoing poetry and music performance collective in LouisvilleVenues including: Frazier History Museum, Portalnd Museum, Writer’s Block Festival, and Surface NoisePoetry Is Productions, Artistic Director and Founder7 Productions in Chicago, New York City, and BoulderIncluding my original works: “PLATH/HUGHES”, “Phaedra, Released.”; and adaptations/translations of “Wilde’s Salomé”, “Bernarda Alba and Her House”, “Buster Keaton Passes By”, “The Enormous Room”Fall 20192019-Present2017-201820172019-Present2015-PresentClassical Entertainment Society, Artistic Director13 Productions in Chicago, including 2 festivals foundedIncluding my original works: “Iron Bridal Feast”, “Tiresias”; and adaptations/translations of “Beowulf”, “Blood Weddin’”2012-2014Ta Pyra Ensemble, Artistic Director and Founder4 Productions in Kentucky and Indiana Including my adaptation: “Upwards to the Sun”Evanston Now, Head Arts WriterLead point of contact articles, coordinated scheduling and editorialUniversity of Chicago Information Center InternCollaborated with News Office to disseminate University information, website building, article writing2009-20122015-20162014Memberships & Professional DevelopmentLouisville Literary Arts Board, MemberSarabande Books Young Professionals Board, MemberAmerican Literary Translators Association, MemberColorado Translators Association, MemberUniversity of Chicago Arts Alumni Board MemberOrganizer and Host: “Poetry and Performance- Protest Reading” at Naropa UniversityNaropa Writing Center Client CommitteeResearch and presentations on how to better serve the writing center’s client basePedagogy Collective at NaropaPedagogy Collective Syllabi CommitteeRe-designed courses “Literary Studies” and “Creative Reading & Writing”2019-present2019-present2018-present2017-20192017-present20162016-17 2016-20182017Performances/Readings/InstallationsKentucky Is: A Sound Experience at the Frazier MuseumProducer and PerformerPoetry Is: A Sound ExperienceHost: Surface Noise Records, Portland Museum, Writer’s Block Festival, Kleinhelter GalleryRiver City RevueFeatured ReaderAlexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series of the American Literary Translators Association ConferenceFeatured Translator/Reader of Giuseppe Gioachino BelliBing Art Books, hosted by the UChicago Arts Alumni NetworkBook Release for “We Knew No Mortality”Innisfree Poetry Café ReadingFeatured Reader for “We Knew No Mortality’Naropa University Art Gallery Installation & PerformanceInstallation: “a Writer’s Notebook”, with opening Performance from “We Knew No Mortality”Punketry Reading/Performance, DenverFeatured PerformerStill Cellars Performance SeriesNaropa University Graduation ReadingNaropa Writing Center ReadingRevolutionary Letters ReadingJoanna Macy Center CabaretBoulder Public Library Lunchtime Concert SeriesFeatured Performer100,000 Poets for Change, Boulder4x4 Reading Series at University of DenverStudent Representative, Naropa University“30 Days Dry” Release Event at Armadillo’s Pillow, Chicago“30 Days Dry” Release Event at Worsham Hall, KentuckyCHI PRC reading from “30 Days Dry”, ChicagoBook Cellar, ChicagoUniversity of Chicago Alumni ReadingRhino Poetry Featured Reader, Chicago100,000 Poets for Change, BoulderNaropa University Protest Reading, BoulderNaropa Text/Image Symposium Reading, BoulderBoulder Museum of Contemporary Art, “Blackboard/Whiteboard”Performance art and installation produced by Poetry Is/Beats as part of an exhibition“HOWL: A Ginsberg Birthday Party” at the Fox TheatrePerformed selection from “PLATH/HUGHES”201920192019201820182018201820182018201820182018201720172017201820152015201520162016201620162016201720172017InterestsTheatre Production, Playwriting, Directing, and DesignIncluding staged readings of my work with The Old Globe, San Diego; Trellis/Greenhouse Theatre, Chicago; Adventure Stage, Chicago; Also including work with Outcast Productions, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Whiskey Rebellion Radio Hour, Hyde Park Players, Rhinofest, American Theater Company, Horizon Theatre, Theatre of Western Springs, Dandelion Theatre, Steep Theatre, Stage Left, New American Folk Theatre, Tympanic Theatre, Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Redtwist Theatre, Poor Theatre, Opera Ouvert, Redd Opera, and 3 Brothers Theatre.Creative Writing/Literature Instruction; Literary Seminars; Writing Workshops; Pedagogical TheoryLiterary translation, chapbook creation, design, text and image, lyrical essay, activist writing, expository writing, research and analysis, Eco-Pedagogical theory, writing outside the canon Journalism Arts Feature Writing, Interviews, Reviews of Theatrical Productions And EventsTranslation from Spanish and Italian to EnglishLorca, Belli, DanteReferencesJessica SavitzPoet & ProfessorUniversity of Chicago535 Hinman Ave, Apt E3, Evanston IL 60202773.814.7101jessica.ryan.savitz@ Michelle Naka PierceDirector of Writing Center and Writing SeminarsJack Kerouac School of Disembodied PoeticsNaropa UniversityBoulder, CO303-245-4808mnpierce@naropa.edu ................
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