Curriculum Vitae
Nora Bonner
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Creative Writing (Fiction), Georgia State University, 2020
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Fiction), Florida State University, 2013
M.A., English, Miami University, 2010
B.F.A., Theater Performance, University of Michigan, 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Creative Writing Course Instructor, Georgia State University, Fall 2017 to Present
ENG 3150b: Introduction to Creative Writing
Lower Division English Course Instructor, Georgia State University, Fall 2016 to Present
ENC 1102: College Composition: Writing About Mass Incarceration
ENC:1101: College Compostion: Writing About Social Justice
English Instructor, Life University’s Chillon Project at Arrendale State Prison, Fall 2017 to Present
ENG 212: Novels About Identity and Otherness
COMP 101: Introduction to College Composition
COMP 102: College Composition
Writing Instructor at Clark Atlanta University, Fall 2018
CENG 105: Introduction to Composition
CENG 106: Writing and Research
Composition Instructor, Tallahassee Community College, Fall 2014-Spring 2016
ENC 1101: College Composition
ENC 1102: Argument and Persuasion
Upper Level English Course Instructor, Florida State University, Fall 2013-Fall 2015
CRW 4120: Advanced Fiction Workshop
LIT 2020: Introduction to the Short Story in America
LIT 3383: Women in Literature
Composition Instructor, Florida State University, 2010-2013
ENC 1102: Global Perspectives—Writing, Reading, and Research
ENC 1142: Personal Narratives and Researched Essays
Graduate Instructor, Miami University 2008-2009
English 111: “Writing and Place”
English 112: Composition and Literature “Stories of Native America”
English 226: Intro to Creative Writing
PUBLICATIONS Click here for Author Site
Fiction:
“On Naming” CheapPop, October 2019
“A Hand for Scale,” Fiction Southeast, Summer 2019
“This Way, If You Dare,” Third Coast, Fall 2018
“Some Deep Place,” Apalachee Review, 2018
“Miss Thailand Country Band,” American Literary Review, Summer 2018
“Public Statement”. Agnes Scott Writers Festival Magazine, 2018
“Trespassers”. Sequestrum, Summer 2017
“Next to Godliness” Redivider, Summer 2017
“New Translations” . Quarterly West. Spring 2017
“As Though She Could Actually Do Something”. Potomac Review, January 2017
“Theresa Scott”. Sinking City Magazine (University of Miami). Fall 2016
“We Like”. Corium Magazine, Winter 2015
“Come Go With Me”. Indiana Review, Summer 2015
Runner-up in 2014 Fiction Contest, Judged by Roxane Gay
“The Last Attempt”. Oxmag, Spring 2015
“Final Warning”. Hobart, June 2014
“The Release”. Extract(s), January 2014
“Uncle Sam City”. Amsterdamned If You Do. Anthology, edited by Traci Kim. Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, August 2011
“Devil’s Night”. North American Review, Summer 2011
“What You Are Doing on This Side of Town”. Juked, Ed. John W. Wang. June 2011
“Walk Out”. The Bellingham Review. Ed. Brenda Miller, Spring 2011
“Burying Jeremy Green” Best American Non-Required Reading, 2010
“At the Opera”. Fogged Clarity, May 2010
"Burying Jeremy Green." Shenandoah: Washington and Lee University Review. Ed. R.T. Smith. Winter 2009.
Creative Non-Fiction:
“Variables,” Cahoodaloodaling, Summer 2018
“Coup de Thai.” Eclectica Magazine. January/February 2007
“Minority of a Minority,” Winner of the Hopwood Award for Non Fiction, 2001
Critical Work:
Bonner, Nora and Elham Shayegh. “Adam Bede Revisited: Social Stigma and the Formation of Deviant Identity.” Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies. Issue 8: 1/2015, pp 4-10.
PAPERS/PANELS PRESENTED
“Teaching Literature in the Prison”. National Conference for Higher Ed in Prison, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2018. Panelist and Scholarship Recipient.
“Paulo Freire’s ‘Revolutionary Praxis’ in David Park’s The Truth Commissioner.” American Conference for Irish Studies. University of Missouri, Kansas City. April 2017. Panelist.
“Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera in Conversation with Walter Mignolo’s ‘decolonial option.’”New Voices Conference, Georgia State University, February 2017
"Revolutionary Praxis: Octavia Butler and Paulo Freire” South Atlanta Modern Language Association. Jacksonville, Florida. November 2016. Panelist.
Paulo Freire’s “Dialogical Action” in Octavia Butler’s Parable Series" African American Arts: Activism and Aesthetics, Griot Institute for Africana Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, October 2016. Panelist.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS
Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, Scholarship, 2019
Marianne Webster Memorial Award, 2019
For Georgia State University English majors active in the community
Advanced Teaching Fellowship, 2019-2020
Georgia State University Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2016-2021
Atlanta Writer’s Conference Scholarship, Georgia State University, Nov 2018
Writer in Residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, May 2017
Third Coast Fiction Contest (First Runner Up), Fall 2018
Judged by Danielle Evans
Whitefish Review Fiction Contest (Finalist), 2015
Judged by Rick Bass
Indiana Review Fiction Award, (First Runner-Up), 2015
Judged by Roxane Gay
Fine Arts Work Center , Provincetown, MA, Summer 2015
Tuition Scholarship for fiction workshop with Hanna Pylväinen
Florida State University Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2013
Academic Achievement Award, Miami University, 2008-2009
($5000) as top-ranked creative writing graduate student in my admitted class.
Graduate Assistantship, Miami University, 2008-2010
Wade McCree Jr. Scholarship, 2000-2004
Four years of tuition for the University of Michigan
James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan, March 2004
Avery Hopwood Award in Non-Fiction, 2001
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES/RELATED EXPERIENCE
Host and creator of the New South Reading Series in Atlanta, Spring 2017 to present
I coordinate monthly readings in order to connect local writers with authors promoting their debut books.
Host for the Warehouse Reading Series in Tallahassee, Summer 2013
I introduced readers for six weeks during the Summer C Session.
Communications Director, Bread and Roses Food Co/op, 2012-2013
I coordinated the monthly newsletter and designate other members to accomplish related tasks, including writing weekly email updates.
Student Coordinator for Writer’s Harvest, Fall 2012
I solicited local business to donate to our silent action
Fiction Reader, Southeast Review, Florida State University, 2010-2013
I read through fiction submissions for the University’s Literary Journal
Fiction Editor, Oxford Magazine, Oxford, Ohio, 2008-2010
I read and edited manuscripts for this annual literary journal. Other responsibilities included publicity, organizing public readings, and call for submissions.
Reader, Chicago Calling Arts Festival, 2007 & 2008
I read with my cousin from the poetry braid project .
Research Assistant, ABAC Poll, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006-Present
I worked at the center from 2006-2008, editing English translations of research. I also assisted the director at meetings for the United Nations, the Japanese and American embassies, as well as seminars for Police Reform and International Drug Policies.
Workshop Director, Hannan House, Detroit, Michigan, 2005-2006
Hannan House is a non-profit operating foundation serving the needs and improving the quality of life of older adults who live in the Detroit
Metropolitan Area. I taught two workshops in reader’s theater, where we recorded a play for the local public radio station for the blind. I also assisted a local poet in teaching a poetry workshop.