Chad Simpson

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Contact 309-341-7408 csimpson@knox.edu

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.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
"Adopting" nominated for Best New American Voices 2009 by the Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2007.
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.

Phantoms. Pittsburgh: Origami Zoo Press, April 16, 2010.

"Phantoms." Freight Stories (2010.)

"Bardstown (ii)." Staccato Fiction (2010.)

"Review of the Double Rainbow Video on YouTube." 300 Reviews (2010.)

"American Bulldog." Crab Orchard Review (2010.)

"fourteen." Matchbook (2010.)

"Obnubilate." The Collagist (2010.)

"The Rowan House." Wigleaf (2010.)

"A Postcard to Wigleaf." Wigleaf (2010.)

"Especially Roosevelt" (reprint). You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, ed. B.J. Hollars. Writer‘s Digest Books (May 2009): 202-213.

"Inside 'Especially Roosevelt': Uncovering Meaning in an Anecdote." You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, ed. B.J. Hollars. Writer's Digest Books (May 2009): 213-217.

"Writing Exercise." You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside the Story, ed. B.J. Hollars. Writer's Digest Books (May 2009): 218-219.

"Two Weeks and One Day." Keyhole Digest May 2009.

"House Calls." Hobart November 2009.

"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.