Cathy Day
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P.O. Box 7718 / 129 Bliss Hall Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 (609) 771-2918 dayc at tcnj.edu |
Education_______________________________________________________________________
1995 M.F.A in Creative Writing/Fiction, University of Alabama
1991 B.A. in English, DePauw University, Magna Cum Laude
Publications___________________________________________________________________
Books
The Circus in Winter. forthcoming from Harcourt, July 2004.
Fiction in Anthologies
“The Circus House.” New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2000. Ed. Shannon Ravenel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000.
“Boss Man.” American Fiction, Volume Ten. Ed. Alan Davis and Michael White. Judges. Robert Boswell and Antonya Nelson. New Rivers Press, 1999.
“Mississinewa.” Walking on Water. Ed. Allen Wier. University of Alabama Press, 1996.
Fiction in Periodicals
"The King and His Court." River Styx. Vol. 66 2003.
“The Last Member of the Boela Tribe.” The Antioch Review. 64.3 Fall 2003.
“Jennie Dixianna and the Spin of Death.” Shenandoah. 52:1 Spring 2002.
“Wallace Porter Sees the Elephant.” The Southern Review. 37:1 Winter 2001.
“Boats.” The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South. 7:1 Winter 2000.
“Strike Stew.” The Cream City Review. 23.2 (1999).
“The Girl with Big Hair.” The Gettysburg Review. 12:2 Summer (1999).
“The Circus House.” Story. Winter (1999).
“Leon’s Daughter.” The Florida Review. 21:2 (1996).
“Hospice.” Quarterly West. 41 (1995).
Non-fiction in Periodicals
“Slogging Through the Muck of the American Id.” (essay/review) The Gettysburg Review. 12:4 Winter (1999).
How I Came West and Why I Stayed by Alison Baker. (review) The Black Warrior Review. 21:1 Fall/Winter (1994).
Fellowships & Awards________________________________________________________
2002 Best American Short Stories 2002, (Distinguished Story), “Wallace Porter Sees the Elephant"
2001 Pushcart Prize XXV (Special Mention), “Boss Man”
2001 Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
1999 Bush Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation
1998 Faculty Research Grant, Minnesota State University
1998 American Fiction, Volume Ten, third place, “Boss Man”
1994 Playboy Fiction Contest, second place, “Leon’s Daughter”
1994 Graduate Council Fellowship, University of Alabama
1994 Teaching/Writing Fellowship, University of Alabama
1991 Phi Beta Kappa, DePauw University
Advising__________________________________________________________________________
Public Readings________________________________________________________________
July 2001 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN
Nov. 2000 Women’s Center, The College of New Jersey
April 2000 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
April 2000 Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO
Jan. 1999 Good Thunder Reading Series, Minnesota State University, Mankato
April 1998 Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN
April 1998 Marshall Festival 5, Southwest State University, Marshall, MN
Oct. 1997 Writer's Bloc, Featured Reader, Maggie's Restaurant, Mankato, MN
Oct. 1997 Weekly Reader, KMSU, Mankato, MN
April 1996 Little Professor Bookstore, Birmingham, AL
Dec. 1995 WUAL/WQPR, Tuscaloosa, AL
April 1995 DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Professional Activities______________________________________________________
March 2004 How and Why We Make the Grade: roundtable discussion on grading creative writing with Anna Leahy (North Central College), Mary Cantrell (Tulsa Community College), Mary Swander (Iowa State), Janet Sylvester (Harvard), and Stephanie Vanderslice (University of Central Arkansas).
April 2001 Teachable Metaphors and Other Innovations in the Creative Writing Classroom, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Palm Springs, CA (with Debra Marquart and Michael Martone)
March 2000 Authority in the Creative Writing Classroom: Issues and Methods, AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO (with Mary Cantrell, Lucia Cordell Getsi, Rachel Hall, Anna Leahy, Evie Miller, Audrey Petty, and Mary Swander)
April 1998 Technology and Reading and Writing in the 21st Century, Marshall Festival 5, Southwest State University, Marshall, MN (with Marjorie Dorner)