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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 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. 2 Writing for Programmable Media “Eat Your Tits and Puppets.” With Ian Hatcher (programmer). <clearblock.net/projects/puppets/> 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 Yinzer (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.” Pittsburgh City Paper (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 4 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. 5 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,