Vita of STEPHEN B



Vita September 2017

STEPHEN B. COYNE, Ph.D.

3226 Laurel Ave.

Sioux City, IA, 51106

712-898-9883

coyne@morningside.edu

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

It Turns Out Like This, New Rivers Press, 2016—a collection of linked stories, winner of the Many Voices Award and 2016 Book Award from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association

Monographs

A Key to John Fenwick’s Handwriting. On file in the library of the Salem

County New Jersey Historical Society, 2011.

A Transcription of ‘A Sabbath Meditation’ from John Fenwick’s Day

Book. On file in the library of the Salem County New Jersey

Historical Society, 1996.

SHORT STORIES

“Game,” Winning Writers. November, 2013

winning-entries/game .

“Ice Boy,” New Millennium Writings. Number 23, 2014.

“How Love Feels,” The North American Review. Volume 296, Number 2, spring 2011.

“Still Life.” The South Carolina Review. Volume 40, Number 1, Fall, 2007.

“Jill’s Story.” The North American Review. Volume 292, Number 2, March-April

2007.

“The Mercy of the World.” The New England Review. Volume 28, Number 2, 2007.

“Hunting Country,” Best of the South, Volume II. New York: Recorded Books, 2006.

“Hunting Country,” Best of the South. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2005.

SHORT STORIES (continued)

“Hollowed Be Thy Name.” The North American Review. Volume 289, Number

2, March-April, 2004.

“The Long Room.” The Greensboro Review. Number 72, Fall 2002.

“The Visitation.” The North American Review. Volume 286, Numbers 3-4.

May-August, 2001.

“Hunting Country.” New Stories from the South, The Year’s Best, 2001.

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: Workman, New York, NY, 2001.

“Hunting Country.” The Southern Review. Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2000.

“Missing in Action.” The Georgia Review. Volume L, Number 4, December

1996.

“Salvage.” American Short Fiction. Volume 5, Number 20, December 1995.

“Leveling.” The South Carolina Review. Volume 24, Number 2, Spring, 1992.

“Everything Important Makes No Sense.” The Robert’s Writing Awards Annual,

1991.

“M.I.A.” The Colorado Review. New Series: Volume 28, Number 1, Spring

1991.

“The Grease Man.” Prairie Schooner. Volume 64, Number 1, Spring 1990.

POETRY

“Living Down Jersey.” The Potomac Review. Issue 37, summer 2004.

“Weeding.” The Southern Review. Volume 39, Number 3. Summer 2003.

“Enlightenment.” The Briar Cliff Review. Volume 15, Spring, 2003.

“Missed.” The North American Review. Volume 287, Number 6, November-

December, 2002.

“That robin making. . .” The Mid-America Poetry Review. Volume III, Number

1, Spring 2002.

“Scrambled Love.” The Literary Review. Volume 44, Number 3. Spring, 2001.

POETRY (continued)

“Old Jazz.” The Southern Review. Volume 36, Number 3, summer 2000.

“Steps.” The Southern Review. Volume 36, Number 3, summer 2000.

“Lost.” The Southern Review. Volume 36, Number 3, summer 2000.

“Dear American Association of Retired Persons.” The Briar Cliff Review.

Volume 10, Spring, 1998.

“Sioux City.” The Greensboro Review. Number 60, Summer, 1996.

AWARDS, GRANTS, & HONORS

2016 Book Award from the Midwest Independent Publishing Association for It

Turns Out Like This.

Many Voices Award in fiction from New Rivers Press for It Turns Out Like This,

2015.

Winning Writers Sports Fiction and Essay Contest honorable mention for “Game,”

2013.

New Millennium Prize for Fiction awarded to “Ice Boy” 2013.

Notable Stories of 2005 form StorySouth for “Hollowed Be Thy Name” -- best online

short stories published during 2005.

“Hunting Country republished in New Stories from the South, the Year’s Best, 2001.

“Hunting Country” republished in Best of the South, Volume II, 2005.

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship to support

fiction writing, 1998.

The Mississippi Review fiction contest, first prize, for “M.I.A. 1996.

Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award for Fiction for “The Grease Man,” 1991.

The Robert’s Writing Award, second prize, 1991.

Writer’s Digest Books award for one of the twelve best stories from a new writer

in 1990.

Playboy Magazine College Fiction Contest, third prize, 1987.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English, 1988

The University of Denver, Denver, Colorado

Emphasis in American Literature and fiction writing, 1988

Additional graduate work, 1981

The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, 1981

M.A. in English, 1976

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

B.A. in English, Cum Laude, 1972

Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1988 to present--Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, English Department, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa

1987-1988--Chair of the Humanities and Fine Arts Department, Isothermal Community College, Spindale, North Carolina

1984-1987--Teaching Fellow, English Department, The University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1984-87.

1978-84--Instructor of English and Journalism, Isothermal Community College, Spindale, North Carolina

TEACHING AWARDS

The Sharon Walker Faculty Excellence Award 2004 at Morningside College for

outstanding teaching, scholarship, advising, and service.

Colorado Fellowship to support fiction writing and the study and teaching of

American literature

TEACHING INTERESTS & EXPERIENCE

Graduate:

▪ American literature

▪ advanced fiction writing

Undergraduate:

• introduction to creative writing

• advanced fiction writing

• advanced poetry writing

• creative nonfiction writing

• American literature

• American minorities literature

• editing and publishing

• freshman composition

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Morningside College

• Coordinator of Passport and Composition & Communications, 2004-2007. Helped guide faculty from across the curriculum as we developed consensus about a new first-year program. Coordinated faculty development activities including consultants and in-house workshops.

• Creator and coordinator of The Sioux City Readings Series, 1998-

present. The series brings regional and national writers to town for

readings.

• Faculty Advisor to The Kiosk, award-winning student literary magazine.

• Acting Chair of the English Department, Morningside College, 1998, 2006, 2013

University of Denver

• Assistant Editor for The Denver Quarterly

Isothermal Community College

• Faculty Advisor to The Patriot, student newspaper, first-

prize winner in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association

Newspaper Contest, 1981, 82, 83.

Journalistic work

• Reporter for The Thermal Belt News Journal, 1976-78

• Freelance reporter for:

The North Carolina Arts Journal

The AWP Writer’s Chronicle

The Journalist

The Rutherford County News

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