Wendy Miles, M.F.A.
Assistant Professor
English Department
Lynchburg College
Carnegie 405
434/544-8275
miles.w@lynchburg.edu
Experience/Background:
August 2009-Present - Lynchburg College, Assistant Professor of English
August 2006 -2009 - Randolph College (founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891), Assistant Professor of English
2004-2006 - Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Instructor
August 1991 - May 1995 - Bowling Green State University, Instructor
Education and Certifications:
M.F.A., Creative Writing-fiction, Bowling Green State University, 1993
B.A., English, Lynchburg College, 1990
Publications:
Southern Poetry Review - poetry
"Swan," 2009, Volume 47:1
"The Thing Itself," 2006, Volume 44:1
Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture - creative nonfiction
"Smoke," Issue Twenty: Fall/Winter 2008
storySouth - poetry
"Proximity," Winter 2008, www.storysouth.com
The Yalobusha Review - poetry
"Regarding the Redbud," Volume XIII, 2008
The Dose Passos Review - poetry
"Family Album: Scenes from Boxes One and Two" & "Mezzo Morto," Spring 2007, Volume 4, Number 1
"One Night, the Rabbits," Spring 2005, volume 2, Number 2
The Pedestal Magazine - short-short fiction
"Allegiance": Issue 38: February-March 2007, www.thepedestalmagazine.com
The Comstock Review - poetry
"You Be the Poet" & "A Note Left," Spring/Summer 2006, Volume 20: Number 1
Image/Word: a book of poems - poetry
"They Have Not," 2005
The Chattahoochee Review - poetry
"Big Deal in Yellow," Spring 1999, Volume XIX, Number 3
Hawaii Review - poetry
"The Miners," Spring/Summer 1997, Issue 48: Volume 20.3
The Heartlands Today - poetry
"The Mother and Daughter" & "Because We Move," 1995, Volume 5
Honors and Awards
Pushcart Prize nominee, poetry, 2009
Semi-finalist, two poetry 1st-book awards, 2008-09: Zone 3 Press and Persea Press
Finalist for Southwest Reviews 2009 Morton Marr Poetry Prize for formal poetry
Poetry Fellowships: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA: May/June
2009, August/September 2008, December 2007/January 2008, May 2007,October 2006 and April 1997
Prairie Schooner poetry scholarship to attend the 2007 Nebraska Summer Writers' Conference
Finalist for Southern Poetry Review's 2007 Guy Owen Prize
Information on Courses Taught:
Advanced Creative Writing (poetry and fiction)
Creative Nonfiction (writing memoir and personal essay)
Introduction to Creative Writing (poetry, fiction and drama)
Poetry in Response to Photography (a yearlong independent study)
Writing in College (composition)
The Literature of Growing Up
Imaginative Writing
All levels of Composition
Professional Associations:
Member, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Third Thursday Planning Committee, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, Va., concerned with selection of writers for its Third Thursday reading series, 2007-2008
Writing Board, Randolph College, concerned with essay-writing proficiency, 2007-2009
Personal Information:
Interests: being outdoors, especially in the fall--preferably walking through a field or pasture or sitting on a porch. I'm keen on travel, though I haven't done much in the past two years. I also read quite a bit. I love finding new poets among small presses, especially new Southern female poets. Right now I'm loving just plowing through one memoir and nonfiction essay after another. Even though my M.F.A. is in fiction, I write mostly poems and essays. One current focus in my poetry is atmosphere--somewhere near the intersection of Southern Gothic and dreamscape.
Favorite smells: black walnut, hay, vine-ripe tomato
Favorite author: Eudora Welty
Four ambitions: making "Mashula's Coconut Cake" (a recipe from Eudora Welty's first novel, Delta Wedding), traveling to southern France, publishing my first collection of poems, remaining off Facebook.