Cameron Kelsall
M.A. Candidate
Creative Writing: Poetry
Poetry Editor, Quarter After Eight
Office: Ellis 08
Office Phone: 593-2743
Office Hours: M 10:00-11:00; W 2:30-4:00; and by appointment
Email: ck358810@ohio.edu
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Degrees
BA in English, cum laude, Marymount Manhattan College (2010)
Publications
“Reflecting on a Picture of John Berryman.” (Poem). Foothill: A Journal of Poetry, 2011-2012 (Volume 1, Issue 1).
“Daylight Savings Time.” (Poem). Forthcoming in Octave Magazine, 2011.
Review of Caroline Bergvall’s Meddle English. Forthcoming in Drunken Boat, 2011.
“On a Dying Planet, A Human Finds Robot Love.” (Review of Jeannette Winterson’s The Stone Gods). On the Issues Magazine, Summer 2009.
Curriculum Vitae
AWARDS:
Gold Key in Creative Writing, Marymount Manhattan College, 2010.
Silver M Award for Outstanding Student Leadership, Marymount Manhattan College, 2010.
Joseph P. Clancy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, Marymount Manhattan College, 2009. (Judged by Alison Hawthorne Deming)
Nominee in Poetry, AWP Intro Journals Project, 2009 and 2010.
PRESENTATIONS:
With Courtney Zehnder. “The Growing Population: Fat Phobia, Ubanization, and Public Space.” 2012 National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (Fat Studies Area), Boston, MA, April 11-14, 2012 (Abstract Accepted).
“Battle Scenes, Battle Scars: The Malleable Front Line in Stop-Loss.” Battlegrounds: Sites and Sights of Conflict, University of Pittsburgh, October 15, 2011.
Poetry Reading, “Defining the New: Innovations in English Studies,” Ohio University (October 23, 2010).
Poetry Reading at Marymount Manhattan College (April 2010).
Poetry Reading at the AWP Intro Journals Project Nomination Party, Marymount Manhattan College (April 2009).
“Deliberate Souls: A Poetry Portfolio” at the 32nd Annual Honors Day Colloquium, Marymount Manhattan College (March 2009).
POSITIONS HELD:
Poetry Editor, Quarter After Eight, 2011-present.
Reader, New Ohio Review, 2010-present.
Editor-in-Chief, Marymount Manhattan Review, 2008-2010.
President, Alpha Mu Chapter (Marymount Manhattan College), Sigma Tau Delta, 2009-2010.
President, Marymount Manhattan Literary Society, 2008-2010.
Courses
English 151: Writing & Rhetoric
English 251: Survey of English Literature, Beginnings to 1688 (TA)
English 306J: Women & Writing (Race and Women's Literature)
English 308J: Writing & Rhetoric II (Understanding Genre in Film)