Joan Connor
Professor
Director, Creative Writing
Creative Writing: Fiction
Office: 327
Office Phone: 593-2754
Email: connor@ohio.edu
Homepage
Degrees
M.F.A., Vermont College, 1995
M.A., Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1984
B.A., cum laude, Mount Holyoke College, 1976
Publications
Books:
The World Before Mirrors, River Teeth Award Series in Nonfiction, University of Nebraska, 2005, (in press)
History Lessons, University of Massachusetts Press, AWP Award Series in Short Fiction, 2003; Frederick Busch, Judge
We Who Live Apart, University of Missouri Press, 2910 Le Mone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201, August, 2000
Here On Old Route 7, University of Missouri Press, 2910 LeMone Boulevard, Columbia, MO 65201, August, 1997
Anthologies:
“Tolstoy’s Daughter,” essay, Women and Transitions Anthology (in press)
“In My Booth,” Censored: The Best of What We Couldn’t Publish, Spire Press, NYNY, 2005
“Sea Change,” Blueline Anthology: 1981-2001, spring, 2004
“Forsaken Places,” Ohio Connections, the Literary Homecoming Project, Ohioana Library & Thurber House, fall, 2003
“What It Is,” Pushcart Anthology XXVIII, October, 2003
Selected Journals:
Stories:
“Short Shorts,” The Idaho Review, winter, 2005
“The Folly of Being Comforted,” TriQuarterly, fall, 2005
“Summer Nights,” The Village Rambler, spring, 2005
“Funeral,” The Village Rambler, spring, 2005
“Wheather,” Branches Quarterly, issue 4, (www.branchesquarterly.com) spring, 2005
“Men in Brown,” Glimmer Train, spring, 2005
“Finding Carla,” Lake Effect, spring, 2005
“How We Say Goodbye,” Harpur Palate, spring, 2005
“Palimpsest,” The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2005
“The Three Minute Love Story,” The Big Muddy, fall, 2004
“When the Boys Come Out to Play,” Colere, summer, 2004
“Old-Timers’ Night,” BlueLine, spring, 2004
“Abandoned Shoe,” Terra Incognita, fall, 2004
“The Night Cafe,” 580 Split, spring, 2004
“Creative Writing,” Inkwell, summer, 2004
“If It Is Bad, It Happens To Me,” Hunger Mountain, Vermont Writers Issue, spring, 2004
“The Painbroker,” Chautauqua Literary Arts Journal, spring, 2004
“Outlander,” Branches Quarterly, (www.branchesquarterly.com) April, 2003
“The Locked Room,” from Vermont Trilogy, Full Circle, A Journal of Poetry and Prose, April, 2003, www.fullcirclejml.com
“Under the Rainbow,” Chelsea Magazine, spring, 2003
“The Year of No Weather,” Green Mountain Journal, fall, 2003
Essays:
“The World Before Mirrors,” The Gettysburg Review, spring, 2005
“Abandoned Shoe,” Terra Incognita, winter, 2005
‘An Open Door,” The Ohio Writer, fall, 2004
“For Geraldine,” The Redwood Coast Review, fall, 2004
“Masque,” Under the Sun, spring, 2004
“The Waiting Room,” River Teeth, spring, 2004
“Bone Key,” Black Warrior, fall, 2003
“Forsaken Places,” Mid-American Review, spring, 2003
“Writing and Telepathy,” The Journal of Arts & Letters, spring, 2003
Poetry:
“Watching A Lover Apply Warpaint,” poem, Small Pond Review, spring, 1995
“Driving Through Provence,” poem, Small Pond Review, spring, 1994
Book Reviews:
The Body of Brooklyn, Fourth Genre, fall, 2003
Evening Will Find Me, Katie Estill, The Ohio Writer, fall, 2000
Milltown Natural, Richard Hague, The Ohio Writer, winter, 1998
The Nature of Longing, Alyce Miller, Chelsea Magazine, fall, 1995
The Circles I Move In, Diane Lefer, Chelsea Magazine, fall, 1995
Readings:
Gettysburg College, September, 2005
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2005
Annie’s Book Stop, Rutland, Vermont, August, 2005
Frostburg State University, April, 2005
Hotel Amerika Benefit Reading, fall, 2004
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2004
Mount Holly Historical Association, Belmont, Vermont, August, 2004
Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont, August, 2004
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI., March, 2004
Summerfest, Killington, Vermont, August, 2003
Green Mountain Writers Conference, August, 2003
Wired for Books, November, 2003
The Writers’ Harvest, October, 2003
West Virginia Writers Workshop, July, 2003
Book King, Green Mountain Journal Reading, March 3, 2003
Courses
Graduate and Undergraduate fiction workshops
Form and Theory, Nonfiction
Classes on Minimalism
Critical Approaches to the Fairy Tale
The Erotics of Literature
Evil and Literature
The Rhetoric of Point-of-View
and others