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1 Matthew Batt 1096 Ryde Street St. Paul, MN EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Utah Literature and Creative Writing (Fiction and Nonfiction), May 2006 Dissertation: Calling Home, directed by Melanie Rae Thon M.F.A. The Ohio State University Fiction and Nonfiction, June 2000 M.A. Boston College British and American Literature, May 1997 B.A. Marquette University English and Philosophy, May 1995 PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS BOOKS THE ENTHUSIAST: From Babies to Bread to Biking and Beyond, Obsessive Essays on Reckless Endeavors, Complete Manuscript, under consideration at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, containing essays previously published in Tin House, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. SUGARHOUSE: Turning The Neighborhood Crack House into our Home Sweet Home, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 19, 2012 (memoir). Reviewed and/or featured by The New York Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Martha Stewart Living, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Pioneer Press, The Oregonian and others. Excerpts featured in Boston College Magazine and St. Thomas Magazine. ESSAYS Hello. My Name Is... Ongoing serial column, including interviews with Cheryl Strayed, Paisley Rekdal, Myfanwy Collins, Pinckney Benedict, Steve Almond and others; TheNervousBreakdown.com Work, Exemplars, Forthcoming September 2013 A Box of Stars, Sweet, May 2013 The Long Run, Poets & Writers, Forthcoming 2013

2 The Opposite of Imagination, Humid, Spring 2012 One Hundred Stories, Cimarron Review, Winter 2012 An Ode to Chrome, Badlands, Fall 2011 Tabernacle, The Huffington Post, October 7, 2010 The New Marshal, REAL Regarding Arts and Letters, Summer 2010 In Front of The Black Sea, On Earth As It Is, Spring 2010 The Power Ballad of West Allis, Mid-American Review, Spring 2008 Sherwood Anderson Prize Finalist Editor s Choice Selection The Path of Righteousness, Tin House, Fall 2005 Best Food Writing 2005 Nominee Vanishing Breeds, Salt Lake Magazine, June 2003 Lessons from Lockdown, The Isthmus, October 2002 Anthologized in Discovering a Voice, Fountainhead Press, 2008 Still Life, Salt Lake Magazine, November 2002 Anthologized in Discovering a Voice, Fountainhead Press, 2008 SHORT STORIES Archealogy, Mule Tales Anthology, Summer 2012 China, Booth, Summer 2012 Regarding the Test You Are About to Fail, Fifth Wednesday, Spring 2009 Morning, Noon, Night, Western Humanities Review, Spring 2006 Utah Writer s Contest, First Runner Up This Is The Body, This Is The Blood, Soundings East, February 2005 Close, Marquette Journal, 1995 Matthew Batt 2

3 BOOK REVIEWS About Grace, Quarterly West, December 2004 The Lost Garden, San Francisco Chronicle, 2003 The Metal Shredders, Another Chicago Magazine, 2002 The Shell Collector, Another Chicago Magazine, 2002 Esther Stories, Another Chicago Magazine, 2002 Sweet Hearts, Another Chicago Magazine, 2001 PRESENTATIONS Florida Literary Arts Council Visiting Writer, (Edison State College, Valencia Community College, College of Central Florida, Flagler College), January 2014 Florida Literary Arts Council Visiting Writer, (Eckert College, University of Tampa, St. Leo University, University of South Florida), September 2013 Month-long Writer in Residence, The Aspen Writers Foundation, July 2013 Featured Author via Skype Conferencing, Whitworth University, April 2013 Guest Writer, Bridgewater State University, March 2013 Featured Author, City Arts Lake Effect Writers Conference, Salt Lake City, March 2013 Guest Writer, High Point University, February 2013 The Literary Legacy of Andre Dubus, Panel Presentation, Chair and event organizer, including panelists Andre Dubus III, Melanie Rae Thon, Bruce Machart, and Nancy Zafris; AWP Conference, Boston, 2013 A Reading by Matthew Batt, Jacob Paul, and Ron Currie, Jr., event organizer, AWP Conference, Boston, 2013 How Collaboration Changes Our Practice, Panel Presentation, Chair, Nonfiction Now Conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, November 23, 2012 Featured Author, Twin Cities Book Festival, Minneapolis, MN, October 13, 2012 Special Guest Speaker, by invitation, Brigham Young University, October 5, 2012 Using Graphic Novel Architecture in Prose, Pedagogy Panel Presentation, AWP Conference, Washington, D.C The Mayor of Crazytown, Panel Presentation, University of Iowa NonfictioNow Conference, November 6, 2010 (panelist) Shooting the Truth, Special Guest Speaker Presentation, Lone Star College, Houston, Matthew Batt 3

4 Texas, September 2009 (invited speaker) Creating Drama When There Is No Drama, University of Iowa NonfictioNow Conference, November 2, 2007 (panelist) AWARDS, HONORS, ANTHOLOGIES McDowell Foundation, $25,000 Artist Fellowship Grant in Prose, National Endowment for the Arts, $25,000 Individual Artist Grant in Nonfiction, 2010, 2011, 2010, 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize, Mid-American Review Prose Contest, Finalist, 2008 Lessons from Lockdown anthologized in Discovering a Voice, Fountainhead Press, 2008, 2008 Still Life anthologized in Discovering a Voice, Fountainhead Press, 2008, 2007 The Path of Righteousness anthologized in Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast, 2006, 2006 Utah Writer s Contest, First Runner Up, 2005, three times, 2005 Iowa Review Nonfiction Contest, Finalist, 2005 Sherwood Anderson Prize, Mid-American Review Prose Contest, Finalist, 2005 City Arts Reading Series, Featured Reader, Salt Lake City, 2005 Helen Earnhart Harley Award, Finalist, Ohio State University, 1998 Mae F. Gales Fiction Prize, Winner, Marquette University, 1995 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of English University of St. Thomas St. Paul, Minnesota, 2007-present Assistant Professor, Department of English and Philosophy Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas, Graduate Teaching Fellow University of Utah, Instructor, Continuing Education University of Utah, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin at Baraboo Matthew Batt 4

5 Visiting Instructor Oxford Federal Corrections Institute, Oxford, Wisconsin, 2002 Adjunct Instructor The Ohio State University, Marion, Ohio, Graduate Teaching Fellow The Ohio State University, COURSES TAUGHT Creative Writing: Graduate Creative Writing Multi-Genre Workshop (once) Graduate Nonfiction Workshop (twice) Upper-division Multi-Genre Workshop (four times) Upper-division Fiction Workshop (once) Upper-division Nonfiction Workshop (five times) Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction (18 times) Fiction Workshop (five times) Creative Nonfiction Workshop (seven times) Memoir Workshop (twice) Representations of Consciousness: How We Write About What We Think (Service Learning Designated Class working with Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in South Minneapolis) (once) Contemporary Autobiography: The Art of Lying, the Beauty of Truth (a studio/academic upper-division undergraduate class) (once) Elements of Autobiography: Portrait of the Artist as a Portrait (studio/academic class co-taught with an advanced painting seminar) (once) Literary Magazine Practicum (six times) Literature: Graduate Independent Study in Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (three times) Graduate Seminar in 20 th Century American Literature (once) Introduction to American Literature: 1865 to the present (once) Literary History I: Middle Ages to the Renaissance (TA) Literary History II: Enlightenment and Romanticism (TA) American Studies: Wilderness and American Romanticism (twice) Postmodernism Seminar: The American Scene (TA) Narrative Studies: Psychological Realism and the American Short Story (once) Independent Study in the Contemporary Transnational Novel (once) Independent Study in the Graphic Novel (once) Composition: Matthew Batt 5

6 Basic Writing First-Year Writing Critical Reading and Writing: Writers at Work Critical Reading and Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction Critical Reading and Writing: Poetry and Drama Second-Year Writing Business Writing Professional Writing EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Summit Avenue Review, Faculty Advisor, Professor of Literary Magazine Practicum 2010-present COMPAS: State of Minnesota Writers and Artists in the Schools, Annual Anthology Faculty Advisor, 2010-present St. Paul Poetry Chapbook (nonprofit benefitting St. Paul food bank) faculty advisor, 2010-present RE:AL, Nonfiction Editor, Quarterly West, Nonfiction Editor, Quarterly West, Assistant Editor, Another Chicago Magazine, Contributing Editor, The Journal, Assistant Editor, The Ohio State University, The Atlantic Monthly, Editorial Intern, ACADEMIC SERVICE Writer Cheryl Strayed, Fall 2012 Faculty Hiring Committee Member (three positions: creative writing; composition/rhetoric; British modernist), University of St. Thomas, Fall Writer Benjamin Percy, Fall 2011 Sacred Arts Festival Board Member, University of St. Thomas, Spring 2011-present Writer Bruce Machart, Fall 2010 Faculty Co-Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, University of St. Thomas, 2010-present Service Learning Coordinator for English 326, University of St. Thomas, Spring, 2010 Judge, First Year Writing Contest, University of St. Thomas, Spring 2010 Colloquium Co-Coordinator, University of St. Thomas English Dept., Fall 2009-present Final Judge, Brigham Young University Undergraduate Short Story Contest, Spring 2009 Faculty Marshal, University of St. Thomas Undergraduate Commencement, Spring 2009 Ad Hoc First Year Writing Curriculum Member, University of St. Thomas, Spring 2009 Judge, First Annual Undergraduate English Major Essay Contest, Spring 2009 Writer Steve Almond, Fall 2008 Major Curriculum Committee Member, University of St. Thomas, th Century Hiring Committee Member, Stephen F. Austin State University, 2007 Director, Inaugural Visiting Readers Series, Stephen F. Austin State University, Matthew Batt 6

7 Advisor, The Writer s Garrett, Dallas, Texas, Director, Honor Student Independent Study, University of Utah, Fall 2005 Volunteer Instructor, Young Writers Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Baraboo, 2002 Distance Education Committee, University of Wisconsin, Baraboo, 2002 Public Reading Series Organizer, The Ohio State University, Peer Mentor, The Ohio State University, Board Member, The Bridge Theater Company, Boston College, Director, New Student Orientation, Marquette University, 1995 Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, Marquette University, 1995 Phi Sigma Tau, Philosophy Honor Society, Marquette University, 1995 REFERENCES Robin Hemley Professor, Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa, Department of English, 306 EPB, Iowa City, IA (319) Robin-hemley@uiowa.edu. Paisley Rekdal Associate Professor, University of Utah, Department of English, 255 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 3500, Salt Lake City, UT (801) Paisley.rekdal@english.utah.edu. Melanie Rae Thon Professor, University of Utah, Department of English, 255 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 3500, Salt Lake City, UT (801) Melanie.Thon@english.utah.edu. Elizabeth Wilkinson Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas, Department of English, th Ave S., Minneapolis, MN (612) wilk9056@stthomas.edu. Matthew Batt 7

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Bret Nye Contact 4704 Harvest Woods Court, Apartment F Fairfax, VA 22033 Mobile Phone: 419-889-9440 Email: bret.nye1@gmail.com Areas of Interest Creative Writing Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenwriting