Curriculum Vitae: Anne Elliott
Books
2019: The Artstars: Stories, (winner, Blue Light Books Prize, Indiana University Press)
Short Stories
2023: “In the Way of a Life Backwards,” Natural Bridge
2023: “The Girl in the Shadow of the Urn,” STORY
2022: “Rooms,” Peauxdunque Review
2021: “The Anatolian Girl,” North by Northeast 2: New Short Fiction by Maine Writers
2020: “Night Watch,” STORY (winner, Story Foundation Prize)
2019: “Black, Black, Red, Black,” A Public Space
2018: "Light Streaming from a Horse's Ass," Fifth Wednesday Journal
2016: "Strays," Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction
2014: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning, Ploughshares Solos
2014: "The Pacific Madrona," Crab Orchard Review
2014: "Their Town," Fugue
2014: "The Anatolian Girl," The Bridport Prize Anthology (highly commended)
2012: "The Flipside of Mercy," The Normal School (winner, The Normal Prize)
2012: "Pink," Witness
2011: "Periscope," Bellevue Literary Review
2011: "The Lemon Method," r.kv.r.y quarterly
2007: "Three Views of My Mother," JMWW
2007: "War," FRiGG
2007: "Read the Goddamn Poem," One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century
2006: "Three Lessons in Firesurfing," Hobart
2006: “Four Stops,” Smokelong Quarterly
2006: “Read the Goddamn Poem,” Pindeldyboz
1997: “I Meet the Gear Named Anya,” WV
Essays
2022: “Radical Empathy Via Free Indirect Style: Luis Alberto Urrea’s ‘Mountains Without Number,’” CRAFT Literary
2022: “Stone Soup,” Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family
2022: “Sanctuary: Rethinking Trouble in Fiction,” AWP: The Writer’s Chronicle
2021: “The Beloved ‘You’: Direct Address in Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend,” TriQuarterly
2011: “A Picture Made of Sound,” Body & Soul: Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica
2009: “Piglet,” 3:AM Magazine
2008: “A Turtle Weighs in on the Republican Nomination,” Opium 6
Poems
2021: “Sixty Found Poems for the New Tower of Babel,” video collaboration, Slippery Elm Journal
2009: “Natives,” New York Quarterly
1998: “When I Returned from My Mother’s Funeral, He Said I Was Too Rebellious,” “Recipes,” “She Thought Starvation Was Somehow Holy,” Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry
1997: “G/EARS,” Lungfull
1996: “something turned over,” “Trojan Love Poems,” “surf the spittle,” “Worm Christ,” Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets
1994: “Sleepwalking, Told in Slow Motion,” Aloud, Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
1993: “She Thought Starvation Was Somehow Holy,” Interview
Recordings
1996: Poemfone: New Word Order (Rhino/Tomato)
1996: State of the Union (Atavistic)
Education
2021: MFA in Fiction, Warren Wilson College
1991: MFA in Visual Art (Intermedia), University of California, San Diego
1988: BFA in Sculpture, Washington University
Teaching/Course Titles
2022, 2023: Harvard Summer School: Proseminar: Elements of the Writer’s Craft
2022: Write on the Sound: Flexing the Sentence
2021-2023: A Public Space: Flexing the Sentence, The Revision Laboratory, Art and Text, Friction and Resistance
2022: Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance: Experimental Revision Methodologies, Friction and Resistance
2021-2022: The Manuscript Academy: Finding a Home (or Homes) for Your Short Story, The Magic of the Sentence, Anatomy of a (Fictional) Confrontation, The Joy (Really!) of Revision, Movement and Momentum
2021: Epic Group Writers: The Magic of the Sentence
2021: Longleaf Writers Conference: Flexing the Sentence
2015-2016: Southern Maine Community College: English Composition
1990-1993: UC San Diego: Composition, The Rhetoric of Schools, The Rhetoric of Growing Up
Honors
2022: Elizabeth George Foundation grant
2021: Press 53 Award for Short Fiction (finalist)
2020: The Story Foundation Prize
2019: The Blue Light Books Prize
2014: The Bridport Prize (highly commended)
2013: Table 4 Writer’s Foundation grant
2013: The Spokane Prize (finalist)
2012: The Normal Prize
Conferences and Residencies
2021: Longleaf Writer’s Conference (fellow)
2017: Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
2014: Tomales Bay Writer’s Conference (fellow)
2014: Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
2013: Vermont Studio Center (fellow)
2012: Tin House Workshops
2011: New York State Summer Writer’s Institute
2007: Tin House Workshops
2001: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts