Madeleine Wattenberg [email protected]

Education

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Graduation: May 2021 (Expected) PhD: English and Comparative Literature (Creative Writing—Poetry Track) Graduate Certificate: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Graduation: May 2017 Masters of Fine Arts: Creative Writing—Poetry

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Graduated: May 2015 Masters of Arts: English and Comparative Literature

Centre College, Danville, KY Graduated: May 2012 Bachelor of Arts: English and Philosophy Minor: Creative Writing

Teaching Experience Graduate Instructor, University of Cincinnati August 2017-Present ENGL1001: Introductory Composition (Fall 2017, Spring 2018) ENGL2089: Intermediate Composition (Summer 2018: Honors, Summer 2020: Online) ENGL/EVST 2030: Literature and the Environment: Women and Nature (Fall 2018) ENGL 2020: Topics in Literature: Science Fiction and Climate Change (Summer 2019: Online) ENGL 2017: Creative Writing: Introduction to Poetry (Spring 2019) Graduate Instructor, George Mason University August 2015-May 2016 Introductory Composition (Fall 2015, Spring 2016) Teaching Assistant, George Mason University Spring 2016 ENGH 202: Early Modern Literature (Spring 2016) Graduate Instructor, University of Cincinnati August 2013-May 2015 Introductory Composition (Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2014)

Additional Experience Assistant Editor, Cincinnati Review August 2019-Present Duties include reading and selecting submissions to pass on to genre editors, selecting work for publication for an online series, writing and uploading web and blog content, social media outreach, tracking and fulfilling subscriptions, copyediting, supervising volunteers, and collaborating with fellow editors to produce two print journals per year. Staff Writer, The Bind May 2017 - Present As a staff writer, I write both traditional and creative reviews of recent poetry collections. Assistant Blog Editor, So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art May 2016-May 2017 Duties include soliciting online content, including interviews, essays, and creative work on feminist topics; writing book reviews; and assisting the editor with formatting and website maintenance. In addition, I worked closely with the entire So to Speak staff to produce the print journal. General Assistant, Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth Summer 2016 As a GA, I worked in the office as a point of contact for parents and instructors. Responsibilities included fulfilling and recording supply requests, creating weekly newsletters, answering phones, and working with all staff to ensure a safe learning environment for our students. Intern, Chautauqua Writer’s Center June 2015-August 2015 As the Chautauqua Writer’s Center intern, I worked on marketing projects and served as point of contact for the writers-in-residence. Duties included poster design and distribution, book sales, event organization, and administrative tasks. I also partook in writers’ workshops with Susan Choi, Rick Hilles, Tim Seibles, and Danielle Legros Georges. Writing Tutor, College of Allied Health-Social Work, University of Cincinnati August 2013-May 2015 I provided writing assistance to masters and undergraduate students of social work. I worked with students to improve their written work, including reflection and personal narrative essays, field reports, interviews, application materials, and thesis papers.

Publications

Anthologies • “Ars Mythos,” Best New Poets 2017: 50 Peoms from Emerging Writers. University of Press, eds. Natalie Diaz and Jeb Livingood, 2017. Poetry. Poetry • “If Tomorrow Never Comes, Lunch Is the Entire Future,” Hobart, March, 2019 • “I Decided I Would Fail at Everything,” Salamander Magazine, Issue 49: Fall/Winter, 2019 • “Like a Ship,” Salamander Magazine, Issue 49: Fall/Winter, 2019 • “Poem at the Edge of a Circle,” Salamander Magazine, Issue 49: Fall/Winter, 2019 • “James River, Virginia,” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets Prize: Graduate, August 2019 • “In Which the Trojan Horse Burns Blue,” The Rumpus, August 2019 • “In This Weekend’s Myth,” The Rumpus, August 2019 • “Ars Poetica as Horse Girl,” The Rumpus, August 2019 • “Imprint” Puerto del Sol, Issue 54, Spring 2019 • “Ode to Bedbugs,” cream city review, Issue 42.2, Spring 2019 • “Osteoclasts” sixth finch, Fall 2018 • “IO” Seattle Review, Volume 10, Issue 1 & 2, Summer 2018 • “Ecdysis” Bone Bouquet, Issue 8.2, Winter 2018 • “Pantoum with a Penny Underneath” DIAGRAM, Issue 18.2, Spring 2017 • “Reconfiguration” Review, October 2017 • “An Inventory of Margaret Cavendish’s Laboratory” Glass Poetry Journal, guest edited by Rosebud Ben-Oni, November 2017 • “In the Interest of Time” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 13, October 2017 • “One Thing Always Leads to Another” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 13, October 2017 • “Pantoum for When the Skies Clear and We’ll Know” Fairy Tale Review, Charcoal Issue, March 2018, Nominated for The Pushcart Prize • “Ars Mythos” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, September 2017 • “Ballad of the Witches’ Tree” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, September 2017 • “Poem in Which the Sphinx Moth is Again Mistaken for a Hummingbird” Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, May 2017 • “Invocation to Flame” Muzzle Magazine, Fall 2016 • “Echeneis or Six Ways of Letting Go” Muzzle Magazine, Fall 2016 • “Matilde at the Starboard Window” Mid-American Review, Fall 2016 • “Graf Zeppelin Over Siberia” Mid-American Review, Fall 2016 • “Aperture” Whiskey Island, Fall 2016 • “[if not for the space between]” Minola Review, July 2016 • “Elegy for Escaped Aerostat” Devil’s Lake, Spring 2016 • “Elegy” Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer 2016 • “Transubstantiation” Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer 2016 • “Charon’s Obol” Guernica, November 2015 (Nominated for Best New Poets) • “The Permanent Eclipse Apocalypse” Gingerbread House, June 2015 (Nominated for Best of the Net) • “Ariel in the Bar Parking Lot at 4am” Cactus Heart, Spring 2015 • “Australia in Beginning Syllables” The Louisville Review, Fall 2013, Louisville,

Essays • “Tossing Away the Key, Reading the Locked Poem” Floodmark: poetry beyond the lines, April 2016

Reviews & Interviews

• Review of Jena Osman’s Motion Studies, The Bind, December 2019 • Review of Kristin George Bagdanov’s Fossils in the Making, Cincinnati Review, September 2019 • Review of Kiki Petrosino’s Witch Wife, The Bind, March 2019 • Review of Sally Wen Mao’s OCULUS, The Bind, January 2019 • Review of Kim Yideum’s Cheer Up, Femme Fatale, The Bind, August 2018 • Review of Kim Kyung Ju’s I am a Season That Does Not Exist In The World, The Cincinnati Review, April 2018 • Review of The Bees Make Money in the Lion by Lo Kwa Mei-en, The Bind, October 2017 • Review of In Full Velvet by Jenny Johnson, The Bind, July 2017 • Review of The Wilderness by Sandra Lim, So to Speak: a feminist journal, May 2017 • Review of Wasp Queen by Claudia Cortese, The Bind, May 2017 • Review of In Which I Play the Runaway by Rochelle Hurt, Phoebe Journal, March 2017 • Interviewed Robin Richardson for So to Speak: a feminist journal, December 2016 • Interviewed Oliver Bendorf for So to Speak: a feminist journal, December 2016 • Interviewed Anne Valente for So to Speak: a feminist journal, October 2016 • Review of A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff, So to Speak: a feminist journal, June 2016

Conferences

Reckonings - An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference, University of Cincinnati, March 2020: “Queer Clearings: The Interventions of Oliver Baez Bendorf and jos charles in Pastoral Poetics” (Presenter)

The 33rd MELUS Conference, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, University of Cincinnati, March 2019: “Imagining Ontologically Irreducible Becoming—Feminist Futures Beyond Omnipresent Oppressive Systems: Speculative Poetry and Fiction by Ethnic and Minority Women Writers” (Panelist)

Nourishment: Sustaining Resistance - An Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference, University of Cincinnati, March 2019: “Regurgitating Time: A Creative Reading” (Panelist)

Empathetic Landscapes, Department of English and Comparative Literature Composition Program Graduate Conference, University of Cincinnati, March 2018: “Crafting Connection: Studying Narrative and Technique as In-Roads for Fostering Empathy” (Panelist)

Twelfth ASLE Biannual Conference, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Wayne State University, June 2017: “Rusting Bodies: A Reading and Conversation of Eco-Feminist, Eco- Fabulist Poetry” (Panel Organizer/Chair)

TRANS WRIT LARGE Conference University of Cincinnati, Spring 2015: “Laboring Bodies: The Fabulist Image, Natural Agencies, and Woman as Ecological Solution in Julia Slavin’s “Blighted” (Presenter)

RICE Symposium Centre College, Spring 2012: “Emily Dickinson the Architect: Houses in Poems, Poems as Houses,” (Presenter)

Service

Creative Writing Advisory Committee, The School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati Public Schools, Fall 2019-Present

Honors and Awards • Taft Graduate Summer Fellowship Award for Hypoxia: A Poetry Collection, Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, Summer 2020 • Academy of American Poets Prize: Graduate, Spring 2019 University of Cincinnati • Thesis Fellow in Poetry: 2016-2017, George Mason University • Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Poetry: Spring 2017, George Mason University • Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Centre College • Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Centre College