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Claudette Cohen

CURRICULUM VITAE

Academic Background

Poetry and fiction, women and nature, war and the Humanities, survey courses in the Humanities, natural history, film, modern British literature, Chaucer, Romanticism, Shakespeare, American studies, publication design, postmodern narrative, art and music appreciation.

Work and Research on Combat Trauma and the Humanities

A Field Guide to Under-Sung Veteran Writers, Blog, Summer 2013 

ArtReach Foundation: Project America Workshop, Atlanta, GA, June 2013

The Warrior’s Experience – Civilian to Soldier, Soldier to Citizen: training in military culture and experience for helping professionals, Fort Benning, GA, September 2012

Traveling the Warrior’s Journey, a seminar with Drs. Ed Tick and Sarah Lopez, hosted by Veteran’s Heart of Georgia, February 2012

Aftershock: Humanities perspectives on trauma conference, on scholarship, Washington, DC, November 2010

Summer Arts Leadership Institute, on scholarship, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, June 2009

Homeless veterans' stand-down volunteer, VFW, Wilmington, NC, 2010-2011

Anthony’s Plot, an intentional community for social justice; conducted outreach to homeless veterans, Winston-Salem, NC, 2011

Online bibliography on PTS, TBI, art therapy, writing therapy (ongoing)

Veterans Writing Collective co-founder, Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC

Professional Experience -  Teaching

Instructor, Creative Writing, Cape Fear Community College, Fall 2006

Instructor, Writing 2010: Academic Argument, University of Utah, Fall 2001

Instructor, Laramie County Community College, 2001

Instructor, Microsoft Office, MLC, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1999

Instructor, Composition, Reading, and Business Writing, Cape Fear Community College, 1993

Instructor, Marine Science and Special Activities, North Carolina Aquarium, Fort Fisher, 1991

Instructor, Freshman Composition, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1988–1990

Teaching assistant, The Creative Impulse, survey course on the fine arts from Middle Ages through Enlightenment, University of Wyoming, 1989

Professional Experience -  NonProfit and Graduate Work

HR Technical Support, South East Area Health Education Center (SEAHEC), 2010

Program Coordinator, Cape Fear Literacy Council, 2008

Web designer, University of North Carolina Creative Writing Department, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1999

Information systems manager, NC Coastal Land Trust, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1993–1996

Professional Experience -  Editing and Technical Writing

Technical Writer, Randstad, 2012-3

Technical Writer, Strategic Staffing Solutions, 2011

Editor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Winter 2001 to Spring 2004

Technical Writer, IDES, Laramie, Wyoming, 2000

Technical Writer, Micah Technology Services, Dallas, Texas, 1998

Information Systems Consultant, Metro Information Services, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1997

Documentation Specialist, Applied Analytical Industries, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1996–1997

Editor, Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1992

Editor and Writer, Imaginations Advertising, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1991

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2000

Master of Arts, English, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, 1991

Bachelor of Arts, English and Creative Writing, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, 1987

Associate in Liberal Arts, General Studies, DeKalb Community College, Dunwoody, Georgia, 1985

Doctoral courses in Creative Writing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001

Doctoral courses in American Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1992

Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, Squaw Valley, California, 2000

Honors and Awards

Doris Betts Fiction Prize, 2013

Semifinalist, James Applewhite Poetry Prize, 2013

First Place, Fiction, Page Crafters Prize, On the Same Page Writers Competition, 2013

Blonnie Bunn Wyche Memorial Scholarship, Fiction, 2013

Second Place, Treehouse Literary Loot Contest for Unusual Prose, 2013

First Place in Fiction, Southern Writers Symposium, 2012

Honorable Mention in Poetry, Southern Writers Symposium, 2012

First Honorable Mention in Fiction, Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Contest, 2012

Third Place, McIntyre Light Verse Award, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2012

Third Place, Caldwell Nixon, Jr., Award, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2012

Finalist, North Carolina Humanities Council Linda Flowers Literary Award, 2011

First Place in Fiction, Winston-Salem Writers Anthology Contest, 2010

First Place in Poetry, Winston-Salem Writers Anthology Contest, 2010

Second Place in Poetry, Winston-Salem Writers Anthology Contest, 2010

Honorable Mention in Poetry, Winston-Salem Writers Anthology Contest, 2010

Honorable Mention in Fiction, Winston-Salem Writers Anthology Contest, 2010

First Place, Encore Magazine Fiction Contest, 2009

Winner, Summer Arts Leadership Scholarship Essay, 2009

Writer's residency, Ucross Foundation, Spring 2002

Teaching Fellowship, University of Utah, 2001

Elsie Rohrbough Scholarship, University of Utah, 2001

Semifinalist, Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, 2001

Scholarship, Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, 2000

Outstanding Thesis Award, Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2000

Scholarships and Graduate Assistantship, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1999–2000

Finalist in Heekin Group Foundation Fellowship, 1999

First Place, Charles A. Shull Category, North Carolina Poetry Council Competition, 1997

Second Place, Thomas H. McDill Award, North Carolina Poetry Society Competition, 1997

Nominated by students for Golden Apple Teaching Award, 1990

Teaching Assistantship, University of Wyoming, 1988

Dean's List and Dean's Honors List, Agnes Scott College, 3.6 GPA, 1987

Graduate with High Honors, DeKalb Community College, Dean's List, 3.7 GPA, 1985

Poetry

Prime Number Magazine, 2013, “Mole Crab”

Old Mountain Press, 2012, “Bison”

Testing the Waters, 2012, “Venus”

Pirene’s Fountain, 2011, “Chinese Sculpture at Innisfree, 1998”

Taking Flight-Winston-Salem in Prose and Poetry, 2011, “The Trunk”

Taking Flight-Winston-Salem in Prose and Poetry, 2011, “The Rock I Haven’t Found”

Taking Flight-Winston-Salem in Prose and Poetry, 2011, “Into Now”

storySOUTH, Spring 2010, “The Lightning Rod Salesman”

ditch, the poetry that matters, 2009, “Unfolding the labia”

ditch, the poetry that matters, 2009, “My Space”

ditch, the poetry that matters, 2009, “Einstein at the bus stop”

ditch, the poetry that matters, 2009, “email to God”

UWYO Magazine, 2002, "Not Dark Enough"

Lyric, 2002, "At the Threshold of Stillness"

Lyric, 2002, "Little boy waking up on the shore of a Louisiana Lake"

Squaw Valley Review, 2001, "If I could have a beard"

Mississippi Review, 2001, "How the Water Rolls"

Oklahoma Review, 2001, "Intelligent Observers"

Oklahoma Review, 2001, "Funeral Poem"

Fireweed, 2001, "On Judges 19:22-27 and an article about bog mummies"

Fireweed, 2001, “The Levite’s Concubine”

Mainstreet Rag, 2000, "Kure Pier"

The Southern Anthology, 1997-1998, "Propriety"

Earth's Daughters, 1996, "Menagerie"

Owen Wister Review, 1990, "Night Music"

Owen Wister Review, 1990, "Keats"

Owen Wister Review, 1990, "The Mall"

Aurora, 1987, "Keats"

Short Stories

Treehouse, 2013, “Ode on a Stick”

Cream City Review, Summer 2011, “Stepping into the Flood”

Taking Flight-Winston-Salem in Prose and Poetry, 2011, “The Face of the Earth”

Taking Flight-Winston-Salem in Prose and Poetry, 2011, “The Iron Rose”

Encore Magazine, “An Involuntary Intimate,” series throughout 2010.

Readings, Presentations, and Theatre

Deployed, Touring Theatre of North Carolina production, “The Mayor of Biscoe,” 2013

Poetry Scope, NC Natural Science Museum, Poetry Reading, “Into the Non-Human-Hearted,” 2013

Southern Writers Symposium, Short Story Reading, “The Mayor of Biscoe,” 2012

From Navel to Novel: How Interdisciplinary Study Can Help Your Writing, presented at the University of Utah's Graduate Conference, Fall of 2001

Professional Organizations and Meetings

Summer Arts Leadership Conference, ECU, Greenville, NC, 2009

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society since 1985

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society since 1991

Modern Language Association

Associated Writing Programs

North Carolina Writer's Network

North Carolina Poetry Society

North Carolina Writer's Network Conference, Fall 1998

Writer’s Round Table, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1998

Nature Writing Conference, Missoula, Montana, 1990

Association of Earth Science Editors

English Conference, University of Wyoming, 1989, Session Chair

Agnes Scott Writer's Festival, Decatur, Georgia, 1987

References

Available upon request