C LAIRE D ONATO
[digital CV: mailing address omitted]
[email protected]
E DUCATION
Brown University
M.F.A. Literary Arts
Thesis: Off to the Nervous Museum (Advisor: C.D. Wright)
Independent Study Advisors: John Cayley & Keith Waldrop
Providence, RI
University of Pittsburgh
B.A. English Writing
Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Pittsburgh, PA
B OOKS
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 StarTribune, 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.)
A DDITIONAL P UBLICATIONS
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). <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.
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“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.
F ELLOWSHIPS , H ONORS ,
2013
Finalist, Colorado Prize for Poetry
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A WARDS
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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
P RESENTATIONS : I NVITED T ALKS
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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P RESENTATIONS : I NVITED L ITERARY R EADINGS
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.
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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.
P RESENTATIONS : C ONFERENCES
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.
“əә-măn'yo͞o-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. <clearblock.net/projects/puppets/>
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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, University of Pittsburgh: Pittburgh, PA.
P ROFESSIONAL T EACHING
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
Poet in the Schools Artist Resident
Unit Taught: “Poems by Hand”
March 2012 – Present
Austerlitz & Germantown, NY
Hunter College, City University of New York
Instructor, MGI/GEAR UP
Courses Taught: “College Essay Workshop” (collaboratively designed)
“Poetry and Bookmaking Workshop” (collaboratively designed)
Summer 2011
New York, NY
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
Course Instructor
Course Taught: LITR 0110 “Poetry I,” Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
2009 – 2010
Providence, RI
P ROFESSIONAL A DVISING
Hunter College, City University of New York
Temporary Freshman Advisor, MGI/GEAR UP
September – October 2011
New York, NY
P ROFESSIONAL T UTORING
Self-Employed
Freelance Editor and Writing Coach
2011 – Present
New York, NY
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Hunter College, City University of New York
Writing Instructor, MGI/GEAR UP
July – October 2011
New York, NY
EOSeek (formerly BearPaws Tutoring)
Manager
Summer 2009
Providence, RI
V OLUNTEER T EACHING
AND
T UTORING
826 NYC
Workshop Leader
Course Taught: “All in the Family: Documentary Poetry”
2009 – 2010
New York, NY
Alice M. Waddington School
Poetry Night Leader
Spring 2009
Providence, RI
826 Valencia
Tutor
Spring 2008
San Francisco, CA
University of Pittsburgh Honors College
Workshop Leader
Fall 2007
Pittsburgh, PA
O THER E MPLOYMENT
Caliban Used & Rare Bookshop
Sales Clerk & Inventory Specialist
2006 – 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
S ERVICE E XPERIENCE
Rhetorikos, Fordham University
Editorial Assistant
2012 – present
Bronx, NY
Dr. Joshua Knobe, Yale University
Research Assistant
2010 – 2011
New York, NY
Electronic Literature Organization Conference
Accommodations & Publicity Coordinator
2009 – 2010
Providence, RI
Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
Panel Member
2009 – 2010
Boston, MA, Denver, CO, & Philadelphia, PA
Supernova Reading Series
Series Coordinator
C URATORIAL
2006 – 2007
Pittsburgh, PA
AND
E DITORIAL E XPERIENCE
Dewclaw
Co-Editor (with Evelyn Hampton, Ian Hatcher, et al.)
Incuhabitations: [concepts & languages in poetic practice]
2010 – Present
Providence, RI & Brooklyn, NY
2009 – 2010
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Colloquium Co-Curator (with John Cayley and Adam Veal)
Providence, RI
The Intimacies Project
Contributing Blog Editor, intimaciesproject.com
Fall 2009
New York, NY
Open Thread Chapbook Competition
Guest Judge (Pennsylvania)
Summer 2009
Pittsburgh, PA
The New Yinzer
Summer 2009
Guest Editor/Designer, newyinzer.com/archive/summer09
Pittsburgh, PA
Nasturtium Press
Co-Founder (with Cléa Liquard)
2008 – 2010
Brooklyn, NY
McSweeney’s Publishing
Submissions Reader, Editorial Intern
ReadyMade Magazine
Editorial Intern
The New Yinzer
2006 - 2008
Poetry Editor
2007 – 2008
San Francisco, CA
Spring 2008
Berkeley, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
I NTERDISCIPLINARY A RTS C OLLABORATIONS
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
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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. 20092010: www.theintimaciesproject.com
“əә-măn'yo͞o-ĕnʹsĭs.” With Timothy Terhaar. Summer 2012.
P ROFESSIONAL A FFILIATIONS
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Electronic Literature Association (ELO),
Poets & Writers Directory of Writers
P ROFESSIONAL R EFERENCES
Furnished upon request.