CLAIRE DONATO [digital CV: mailing address omitted] [email protected]

EDUCATION Brown University Providence, RI M.F.A. Literary Arts Thesis: Off to the Nervous Museum (Advisor: C.D. Wright) Independent Study Advisors: John Cayley & Keith Waldrop

University of Pittsburgh, PA B.A. English Writing Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduated Summa Cum Laude

BOOKS Full-Length Titles Burial. Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013, Fiction. • Starred Review in Publishers Weekly and chosen for Publishers Weekly ‘Best Summer Books 2013’ list; other reviews published or forthcoming in The Minneapolis Star- Tribune, HTMLGiant, Big Other, Matrix Publishing, Zing Magazine, Frontier Psychiatrist, and Pittsburgh Magazine Get Him Chromogenic. Poetry manuscript. (Under consideration.) • Finalist for over ten national prizes, including the National Poetry Series Noël. Fiction novel. (In progress.)

Chapbooks To Hell, with Boundaries. Poetry. (Under consideration.) Grief Ecology. The Cultural Society, 2010, Poetry. Someone Else’s Body. Cannibal Books, 2009, Poetry. (Out-of-Print: Edition of 300.)

ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS Anthology Publications “So: A Baroque.” The Sonnets: Rewriting Shakespeare. Eds. Paul Legault & Sharmila Cohen. Callahoon: Nightboat Books, 2012. Print. Excerpt from Burial. [C.] an MLP Stamp Stories Anthology. Eds. Andrew Borgstrom & J.A. Tyler. Mud Luscious Press, 2010. Print. “Catalogue Entry for Aging” and “There are apologies I am too.” Harp & Altar. Eds. Eugene Lim & Keith Newton. New York: Ellipsis, 2010. Print. “ptarmigan-beluga song.” Visions of Joanna Newsom. Ed. Brad Buchanan. Sacramento: Roan Press, 2010. Print.

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Writing for Programmable Media “Eat Your Tits and Puppets.” With Ian Hatcher (programmer).

Fiction in Print “Check-In” from Burial. The Organism for Poetic Research (Graduate Program, Department of English, New York University)’s PELT. “Friends” from Burial. LIT 21 (2012). “Martian Sequence.” Dewclaw 01 (2009). “The Gate.” Gustaf 02: Oslo, Norway (2009).

Fiction Online Excerpt from Noël. Wigleaf (2012).

Poems in Print “Cannonball in Blue, B-Flat Minor.” EDNA (2013). In press. “The Second Body Is a Shield.” Aufgabe 12 (2013). “Manifesto Lightens / Lightness,” “Manifesto Lingua / Papyrus,” “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death,” “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death [2],” and “Poem.” Dandelion: Calgary, Canada (2012). “Credo for Clairvoyance.” Gulf Coast (2011). “Manifesto La Terre / Mori” and “Bind Hysteria.” Denver Quarterly (2010). Excerpts from Grief Ecology. Dewclaw 02 (2010). “Two Nights Later the Quick Return...” and “In the Slats the Roadblock Read Like Backwards Cursive.” Gustaf 02: Oslo, Norway (2010). “Devoid of amorousness did I attempt…” and excerpts from Vortices. Holly White: Cambridge, U.K (2010). “Bed.” Cannibal 04 (2009). “Foreplay Heart. Black Warrior Review 35.2 (2009). “Scotch Taped Against the World,” “An Empty Barn,” “She is seed in the small of her pocket, what senses deliver,” and “Its Bones.” Calaveras 01 (2009). “The Entropy of Organization.” LIT 17 (2009). “Introduction to a Visibly Heterosexual Relationship.” Columbia Poetry Review 23 (2009). “I have some things to tell you.” Caketrain 04 (2006).

Poems Online “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death,” “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death [2],” “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death [3],” and “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death [4].” BOMBlog (2012): www.bombsite.com. “Order and Kinetics.” Boston Review (2012): www.bostonreview.net. “Mint Fetish,” “Mimesis Abyss,” and “Bird Wool Must-Buy.” Action, Yes! (Winter 2011): www.actionyes.org. “Chopping with Blue Down” and “Say Valley Maker.” Coldfront (Summer 2010): www.coldfrontmag.com. “Off to the Nervous Museum.” Octopus 13 (2010): www.octopusmagazine.com. “The poet said those years she felt depressed” and “Morning Sadness.” Fou 03 (2009). “He is a rare one, is she not?” (with Leslie Patron). OCHO 25 (2009): www.mipoesias.com. “Get Him Chromogenic,” “A Better Ant Trap,” “Laughing Sideways,” “Temporary Insanity,” and “Walrus Live-In.” Raleigh Quarterly (2009): www.raleighquarterly.com. 3

“Catalogue Entry for Aging” and “There are apologies I am too.” Harp & Altar 04 (2008): www.harpandaltar.com. “The Pleasure of Tearing Down the Forest.” Typo 12 (2008): www.typomag.com. “Dermatographism,” “Address to California,” and “You Left Photographs.” Coconut 13 (2007): www.coconutpoetry.org. “Red painted attic.” Lamination Colony (2007): www.laminationcolony.com. “2 Narwhals Wrestling,” “Narwhal Ring Toss Poem,” “Harpooner’s Poem,” and “On Finding a Dead Narwhal Perched in a Heap on the Shore.” Shampoo 32 (2007): www.shampoopoetry.com. Creative Non-Fiction/Lyric Essays Online “Signed With Love From: On Meg Baird’s Seasons on Earth.” The Rumpus (October 2012): www.therumpus.net/2012/10/rumpus-sound-takes-share/ “What I Learned from Discipline.” Evening Will Come (July 2012): www.eveningwillcome.com. “Whilst Straddling a Speaker Who Has ‘Located Her Voice.’” Les Figues Blog (Give a Fig) for the Feminaissance Blog Project (Fall 2010): www.lesfigues.com. “Address to the Long Road.” Coldfront’s “Poets Off Poetry” (August 2010): www.coldfrontmag.com.

Magazine and News Writing (Online and In Print) “Enough, enough, enough, enough, enough: Perfume Genius’ Unlearning.” Fanzine (September 2010): www.thefanzine.com. “It's a Hard Knock (This American) Life: An Interview with Starlee Kine.” The New (Spring 2008): www.newyinzer.com. “Good Dirty Fun with Jeremy Tinder.” The New Yinzer (Winter 2007): www.newyinzer.com. “Independent, female-run presses are getting the word out.” Venus Zine (June 2008). www.venuszine.com. Front matter, short articles, and blog posts. ReadyMade Magazine’s “Green” & “Getaway” Issues (Spring 2008): www.readymade.com and in print. “Acclaimed young poet Ben Lerner relocates to Pittsburgh.” (Winter 2008): www.pghcitypaper.com. Various pinions columns and music reviews for The Pitt News (2004-2005): www.pittnews.com and in print.

Other Publications “Poet in Residence: Germantown High School.” Barn Swallow, Millay Colony Newsletter (Summer/Fall 2012): www.millaycolony.org/newsletter. Excerpt from Burial. Mud Luscious Press Stamp Story Project (Fall 2010). Stamp Story Meta Self-Review. We Who Are About to Die (Fall 2010): www.wewhoareabouttodie.com.

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS 2013 Finalist, Colorado Prize for Poetry

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2012 Finalist, Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest Finalist, Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Competition Finalist, Fulbright Creative Arts Fellowship, France Finalist, Futurepoem Books Open Reading Period Finalist, 1913 Open Reading Period Grand Finalist, Coconut Books Open Reading Period 2011 Selected Manuscript, Tarpaulin Sky Press Open Reading Period Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship, Fiction Finalist, The National Poetry Series Finalist, Switchback Books Gatewood Prize Finalist, Futurepoem Books Open Reading Period Finalist, Octopus Books Open Reading Period Semifinalist, Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Ahsahta Sawtooth Poetry Prize

2010 Brown University John Hawkes Prize in Fiction Finalist, &Now/Lake Forest College Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize Finalist, Alice James Books Kinereth Gensler Award Finalist, Octopus Books Open Reading Period Finalist, Switchback Books Gatewood Prize Finalist, Bordighera Bilingual Book Poetry Prize Finalist, Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest Semifinalist, Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Competition Nominee, Brown University Teaching with Technology Award Support Stipend Recipient, Can Serrat International Artist Residency (Spain) Support Stipend Recipient, Vermont Studio Center

2009 Brown University Graduate International Colloquia Grant—$3,500 Brown University Teaching Assistantship Brown University Salomon Grant

2008 Brown University Peter Kaplan Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing

PRESENTATIONS: INVITED TALKS 2013 Parent’s University: A Classroom Experience (Nominated by Students), Fordham University. Electronic Writing Workshop (Dr. Andrew Klobukar), New Jersey Institute of Technology. Fiction Writing (Prof. Azareen Van der Vliet), The University of Notre Dame. Making Text (Prof. Jeff T. Johnson), The New School.

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PRESENTATIONS: INVITED LITERARY READINGS 2014 Emory University Reading. Atlanta, GA. 2013 Publicly Complex with Matthew Klane. Ada Books: Providence, RI. BASH Reading Series with Gracie Leavitt. Brookline Booksmith: Boston, NY. Reading with Stephanie Strickland, et al. Unnameable Books: Brooklyn, NY. Negotiations and Burials. Culturefix: New York, NY. Hatchet Job XVII with Amy King, et al. Suburbia: Brooklyn, NY. Poetic Research Bureau with Amina Cain. Los Angeles, CA. Litmus Book Party. Accola Griefen Gallery: New York, NY. The Organism for Poetic Research’s PELT Release Party. Proteus Gowanus: Brooklyn, NY. Literary Salon with Joyelle McSweeney, et al. South Bend, IN. Tri-Lengua with Anselm Berrigan, et al. La Cantina: Brooklyn, NY. The New School Presents LIT and 12th Street. AWP On-Site Reading: Boston, MA. Get LIT Reading with Cara Benson, et al. Club Café: Boston, MA. 2012 The Sonnets: The Book Launch. Charles Bank Gallery: New York, NY. Interrupt ii Studio. Brown University: Providence, RI. LIT 21 Launch Reading. School of the Art Institute: Chicago, IL. Literary Salon with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi. Providence, RI. Polestar Poetry Series (The Major Arcana). Cake Shop: New York, NY. Boog City Festival. Unnameable Books: Brooklyn, NY. Stain of Poetry at the New York Poetry Festival. Governor’s Island: New York, NY. Tri-Lengua Poetry Series. Botanica: New York, NY. Electronic Literature Organization Conference. West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV. Red Rover Series with Ronaldo V. Wilson, et al. Chicago, IL. LIT and Mental Marginalia. The Double Door: Chicago, IL.

2011

E-Poetry 2011. University of Buffalo: Buffalo, NY. 1913: a journal of forms. ACA Gallery: New York, NY. LOOT IV. Flying Object: Northampton, MA. Mental Marginalia. The West Café: Brooklyn, NY. Soda Reading Series. Soda Bar: Brooklyn, NY. Reading with Gracie Leavitt et al. at Unnameable Books: Brooklyn, NY. Fiona Templeton and the Relationship’s “The Dust.” The Poetry Project: New York, NY. Fou Magazine at New York Poetry Festival, et al. New York, NY. Monkeybicycle Lightning Round. Cake Shop: New York, NY. Reading with Susan Scarlata et al. at Unnameable Books: Brooklyn, NY. Stain of Poetry. Goodbye Blue Monday: Brooklyn, NY. Cornelia Street Reading Series. The Cornelia Street Café: New York, NY. Special Guest for Blake Butler. Word Bookstore: Brooklyn, NY.

2010

Electronic Literature Organization Conference. Brown University: Providence, RI. Special Guest for Jennifer Karmin. The Poetry Project: New York, NY. 6

Friday Late Night Series. The Poetry Project: New York, NY. Crowd Reading Series. Café Orwell: Brooklyn, NY. MFA Thesis Reading. Brown University: Providence, RI. Dewclaw. Stella’s: Denver, CO. Pete’s Big Poetry Series. Pete’s Candy Shop: Brooklyn, NY. Cousins Reading Series. Abe’s Bar: Providence, RI.

2009

All Small Caps. The Deja Brew Pub: Wendell, MA. Reading at Symposium Books: Providence, RI. Yardmeter Editions. Brooklyn, NY. Earshot. Rose Live Music: Brooklyn, NY. The Deep Moat Reading Series Vol. I. Pierre Menard Gallery: Cambridge, MA. I Could Not See the Sentence. Ada Books: Providence, RI. HTML Giant / Noo Journal Reading. Black Sheep: Amherst, MA. No Thousands (AWP off-site reading). The Empty Bottle: Chicago, IL.

2008

Poems Here and There. Pegasus Downtown: Berkeley, CA.

2007

The New Pittsburgh Poetry. ModernFormations Gallery: Pittsburgh, PA. Love Bites the New Yinzer. Brillobox: Pittsburgh, PA. Woodlab. ModernFormations Gallery: Pittsburgh, PA. Choice Cuts. The Slaughterhouse Gallery: Pittsburgh, PA.

PRESENTATIONS: CONFERENCES 2012 “Alternative Avenues in Digital Poetics and Post-Literary Studies.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV. “Open Discussion on the Future of the ELO.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference, West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV. “ə-măn'yoo͞ -ĕnʹsĭs.” With Timothy Terhaar for the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference, West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV. “The Melancholy of SPECIAL AMERICA.” With Jeff T. Johnson for the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV.

“The Melancholy of SPECIAL AMERICA.” With Jeff T. Johnson for Interrupt ii Studio, Brown University: Providence, RI.

2011

“SPECIAL AMERICA.” With Jeff T. Johnson for E-Poetry 2011, University of Buffalo: Buffalo, NY. 2010

“Eat Your Tits and Puppets.” With Ian Hatcher for the Electronic Literature Organization Conference. Brown University: Providence, RI. 7

2007

“The Proliferation and De-Sexualization of the Sadomasochistic Narrative in Contemporary Media.” The National Popular & American Culture Association Conference: Boston, MA.

“The Proliferation and De-Sexualization of the Sadomasochistic Narrative in Contemporary Media.” Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies’ Brown Bag Lecture Series, : Pittburgh, PA.

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING

Fordham University 2012 – Present Adjunct Instructor Bronx, New York Courses Taught: ENG 1102 “Composition II: Space,” Spring 2012 ENG 1102 “Composition II: I’m New Here,” Fall 2012 ENGL 2000 “Texts & Contexts: Children in Literature,” Fall 2012 ENGL 1102 “Composition II: Love / Reality / Trash,” Spring 2013 ENGL 1102 “Composition II: I’m New Here,” Fall 2013 ENGL 2000 “Texts & Contexts: Poetry at the Millennium,” Fall 2013

Millay Colony for the Arts March 2012 – Present Poet in the Schools Artist Resident Austerlitz & Germantown, NY Unit Taught: “Poems by Hand”

Hunter College, City University of New York Summer 2011 Instructor, MGI/GEAR UP New York, NY Courses Taught: “College Essay Workshop” (collaboratively designed) “Poetry and Bookmaking Workshop” (collaboratively designed)

Eugene Lang College (The New School for Liberal Arts) 2010 – 2011 Part-Time Faculty New York, NY Courses Taught: LEDU 0920 “The Documentary Self,” Summer 2010 LIUE 0920 “Expression as Identity: Writing as Reader,” Fall 2010; LIUE 0930 “Critical Analysis: Topographic Texts: New York, New York, New York...,” Spring 2011

Brown University 2009 – 2010 Course Instructor Providence, RI Course Taught: LITR 0110 “Poetry I,” Fall 2009 & Spring 2010

PROFESSIONAL ADVISING Hunter College, City University of New York September – October 2011 Temporary Freshman Advisor, MGI/GEAR UP New York, NY

PROFESSIONAL TUTORING Self-Employed 2011 – Present Freelance Editor and Writing Coach New York, NY 8

Hunter College, City University of New York July – October 2011 Writing Instructor, MGI/GEAR UP New York, NY

EOSeek (formerly BearPaws Tutoring) Summer 2009 Manager Providence, RI

VOLUNTEER TEACHING AND TUTORING 826 NYC 2009 – 2010 Workshop Leader New York, NY Course Taught: “All in the Family: Documentary Poetry”

Alice M. Waddington School Spring 2009 Poetry Night Leader Providence, RI

826 Valencia Spring 2008 Tutor San Francisco, CA

University of Pittsburgh Honors College Fall 2007 Workshop Leader Pittsburgh, PA

OTHER EMPLOYMENT Caliban Used & Rare Bookshop 2006 – 2008 Sales Clerk & Inventory Specialist Pittsburgh, PA

SERVICE EXPERIENCE Rhetorikos, Fordham University 2012 – present Editorial Assistant Bronx, NY

Dr. Joshua Knobe, Yale University 2010 – 2011 Research Assistant New York, NY

Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2009 – 2010 Accommodations & Publicity Coordinator Providence, RI

Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute 2009 – 2010 Panel Member Boston, MA, Denver, CO, & Philadelphia, PA

Supernova Reading Series 2006 – 2007 Series Coordinator Pittsburgh, PA

CURATORIAL AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Dewclaw 2010 – Present Co-Editor (with Evelyn Hampton, Ian Hatcher, et al.) Providence, RI & Brooklyn, NY

Incuhabitations: [concepts & languages in poetic practice] 2009 – 2010 9

Colloquium Co-Curator (with John Cayley and Adam Veal) Providence, RI

The Intimacies Project Fall 2009 Contributing Blog Editor, intimaciesproject.com New York, NY

Open Thread Chapbook Competition Summer 2009 Guest Judge (Pennsylvania) Pittsburgh, PA

The New Yinzer Summer 2009 Guest Editor/Designer, newyinzer.com/archive/summer09 Pittsburgh, PA

Nasturtium Press 2008 – 2010 Co-Founder (with Cléa Liquard) Brooklyn, NY

McSweeney’s Publishing 2007 – 2008 Submissions Reader, Editorial Intern San Francisco, CA

ReadyMade Magazine Spring 2008 Editorial Intern Berkeley, CA

The New Yinzer 2006 - 2008 Poetry Editor Pittsburgh, PA

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS COLLABORATIONS Audio

“Order and Kinetics.” With the Ray Talley Dancers (2009). “He is a rare one, is she not?” With Leslie Patron (Fall 2008). Aired on Brown University’s BSR 88.1FM. “Boy’s got a sad sad song,” “regarding skin,” “Harpooner’s Poem” and “On Finding a Dead Narwhal…” With Josh Beyer for Woodlab, Pittsburgh, PA (Spring 2007). Tracks featured on a CD compilation.

Performance

“SPECIAL AMERICA.” With Jeff T. Johnson. Ongoing project: www.specialamerica.us

Video Burial videos with David Jhave Johnston (glia.ca). In progress.

Visual Art “In the Wake of Freezing You to Death,” “The Night, What It Allows,” and “Feigning Self.” Broadsides with artwork by Carl Ferrero. Fall 2011: www.carlferrero.com/Colab.html

Digital Media UnderAcademy College with Talan Memmott, et al. Ongoing project: www.underacademy.org 10

Collaborative Research Art and Literary Language Group (CO:RE ALL) with Judd Morrissey, Talan Memmott, et al. Ongoing project. “Eat Your Tits and Puppets.” With Ian Hatcher (Spring 2010): www.clearblock.net. Poetry digitally rendered using JavaScript.

Hybrid

The Intimacies Project with Red Dress Films, Marinov Dance, Jeff T. Johnson, et al. 2009- 2010: www.theintimaciesproject.com “ə-măn'yoo͞ -ĕnʹsĭs.” With Timothy Terhaar. Summer 2012.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Electronic Literature Association (ELO), Poets & Writers Directory of Writers

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Furnished upon request.