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Years at Knox: 2005-present
Education
M.F.A., 2005, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
B.A., 1998, Monmouth College.
Teaching Interests
Creative fiction writing, creative non-fiction, modern and contemporary american literature, graphic novels, dante’s inferno
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2007.
Work-Study ("Waiter") Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2007.
"Estate Sales" nominated for Pushcart Prize.
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose, 2006.
Finalist, Charles Johnson Student Fiction Contest, 2005.
Honorable Mention, Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, 2004.
Publications
All I Have in the World: Stories, Forthcoming.
Moussaoui (chapbook), Forthcoming.
Half a Calendar (novel), Forthcoming.
"Adopting," The Sun Magazine, Forthcoming.
"Moussaoui Remembers Fire," Salt Flats Annual, Forthcoming.
"Rail City." 5_Trope, No. 24, (2008).
"Summer of Skin." The Rambler 5.3 (2008): 57-61.
"Preparation." Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (2008): 38.
"The First Night Game at Wrigley." New South 1.2 (2008): 48-54.
"Let x." Esquire.com, (2008).
"Infidelity, or The Rice Cooker." Opium Magazine 7 (2008): 89.
"White Noise." Titular Journal, (2008).
"Home of the Poor and Unknown." Barrelhouse 5 (2008): 103-108.
Selecting Editor, Wigleaf‘s Top 50 [Very] Short Stories of 2007, (2008).
"The Perseids," Duck & Herring Co. Pocket Field Guide, Summer 2007.
"Risks in Collaboration: Accountability as We Move Beyond the Center's Walls." Co-authored with J. Cogie, D. Janke, and T.J. Kramer. Edited by William J. Macauley and Nicholas Mauriello. Marginal Words, Marginal Work?: Tutoring the Academy in the Work of Writing Centers. Hampton Press (2007): 105-134.
"Glass." Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics, 2007.
"The Real and True Story," Red Wheelbarrow 8 (Spring 2007): 215-223.
"Amtrak," Blue Earth Review Vol. 5 (Spring 2007): 173.
"Tell Everyone I Said Hi," Avery: An Anthology of New Fiction 1 (Spring 2007): 93-104.
"Estate Sales," Juked, Fall 2006.
"Miracle," SmokeLong Quarterly, Summer 2006.
Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly, Summer 2006.
"Quarry," Georgetown Review, Summer 2006.
"Hunger," Versal, Winter 2006.
"Dextermetious at Ephemera Park," Elimae, January 2006.
"No One in the World," Gulf Stream, Spring 2005.
"About to Drop," Sycamore Review, Fall 2004.
"Peloma," McSweeney's Quarterly, Fall 2003.
Contact
309-341-7408
csimpson@knox.edu
Knox College is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation for Fulbright Scholar grants awarded to faculty during 2009-2010. Karen Kampwirth is studying feminism and politics at the University of Buenos Aires, and Jeremy Day O'Connell is conducting musicology and linguistics research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Knox College is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation for Fulbright Scholar grants awarded to faculty during 2009-2010. Karen Kampwirth is studying feminism and politics at the University of Buenos Aires, and Jeremy Day O'Connell is conducting musicology and linguistics research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Knox-Sandburg Community Concert Band, Knox Wind Ensemble, and individual music students perform in concert and recital, November 13 through 17 at Knox College.
