
Shena McAuliffe
Research interests
Creative Writing (Fiction and Nonfiction, especially multi-genre forms, the lyric essay, and historical fiction), 20th and 21st Century Fiction and Nonfiction, Literature of Medicine/Narrative Medicine, Literature of Walking, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Magazine and Small Press Publishing, and Book Arts.
Publications
Books:
We Are a Teeming Wilderness. (Press 53, 2023)
Glass, Light. Electricity. (University of Alaska Press, 2020)
The Good Echo: a novel (Black Lawrence Press, 2018)
Short Fiction and Essays:
"Tricycle," Ocean State Review, 13.1 (2024)
"The Course to the Horizon,”Geist (Feb, 2021) [Winner of the 16th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.]
“The Other Matter,” Miracle Monocle (Dec. 2020)
“Of Glass, Light, & Electricity,” Copper Nickel 27 (Fall 2018)
“The Skin of a Rabbit,” North American Review 303.3 (Summer 2018)
“Overgrown Stairway: Richmond, Indiana,” Cincinnati Review 15.1 (Summer 2018)
“Blight: Disambiguation,” Halophyte Collective: Walking/Mapping 1.0 (Spring 2018)
“Pietà: Richmond, Indiana,” AGNI Online (Feb. 2018)
“The Horse Latitudes,” Gulf Coast 30.1 (Winter/Spring 2018): 198-203
“Until We See Signs & Wonders,” Southern Humanities Review 52.1 (Fall 2017): 53-78
“Eleven on Poison,” Bellingham Review 74 (Spring 2017): 71-77
“Dispatches from Abandoned Architecture,” Matchbook (September 2016)
“By Soot, By Flour, By Beetle Track,” Gulf Coast 28.1 (Winter/Spring 2016): 271-273
“A Perfect Time to Think Silver,” Eleven Eleven 19, (August 2015): 159-163
“The Leopard Frog,” Memorious 22, (Spring 2014)
“Light is a Well-Shot Arrow,” Western Humanities Review 68.1 (Winter 2014): 16-24
“This Human Skin,” Better: Culture and Lit 4, (Spring 2014)
“Will Rogers Ranch,” Dispatches from Abandoned Architecture, OPO Books and Objects, (March, 2014)
“We Are a Teeming Wilderness,” Pacifica Review 3, (Spring 2014): 61-63
“This Precarious Hive” Sou’wester (Fall 2013): 66-72
“The Distance Between is an Unbroken Line,” Mapping Salt Lake City. (September 2013).
“The Mugged Body,” Versal 11, (Spring 2013): 43-45
“Endnotes to a Seizure,” Black Warrior Review 39.2 (Spring/Summer 2013): 37-72
“The Healing Machine,” Conjunctions 58, (Spring/Summer 2012): 316-331
“Endnotes: The Anthroposphere,” Western Humanities Review 66.1, (Winter 2012): 26-39
“As a Bitch Paces Round Her Tender Whelps, So Growls [My] Heart,” The Collagist 40 (November 2012).
“Real Silk,” The Tusculum Review 8 (2012): 101-120
“Papyrus of the Yellow-Throated Warbler,” PANK 6, (2012): 46-51
“Two Birds,” Alaska Quarterly Review 26, (Spring/Summer 2009): 255-268
“Anatomy of the Eye,” Black Warrior Review, (Fall/Winter 2007): 15-27
“Shelter,” Land-Grant College Review 4, (Fall 2007): 88-115
“Benevolence,” Conjunctions 48, (Spring-Summer 2007): 153-168
“Husbanding,” CutBank, (Fall/Winter 2006): 103-115
Journal Articles:
“A Widely Applicable Model: Teaching Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay Across Institutions" in Journal of Medical Humanities, 44 (2023): 431-453, co-authored with Sarah Boykin Hardy, Elizabeth Starr, Cindie Aaen Maagaard, Erin McConnell and Krista Quesenberry.
Additional media
Distinctions
Nominee, Stillman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2024
Winner of Donald C. Brate Distinguished Advising Award, 2023
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professorship, 2021-22
Academic credentials
B.A., Colorado State University; M.F.A., Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D., The University of Utah
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