Faculty & Staff : Wendy Mai Rawlings
Associate Professor Wendy Rawlings received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah in 2000. She also completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Colorado State University in 1996. The recipient of residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo, Rawlings was awarded the John Farrar Fellowship in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. Rawlings' teaching interests include: form and theory of fiction, short fiction by women, narrative voice in the American short story, and the comic novel. A collection of her short stories, Come Back Irish, won the 2000 Sandstone Prize for Short Fiction and was published in December 2001 by Ohio State University Press.
Books Authored
The Agnostics, a novel, forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fall 2007.
Come Back Irish. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2001.
Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
"The Skeleton," forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review.
"Ye Olde 20th Century," Indiana Review, Summer 2007.
"Again," The Cincinnati Review, Winter 2007.
"Spectacular Mistakes," AGNI (#64), Fall, 2006.
"Berries on the Vine,” Tin House (Vol 6, No. 1), Fall 2004.
"Outlandish Plot,” Sonora Review 47, Fall 2004.
"Portrait of My Mother's Head on a Plate.” Mid-American Review 24: 2 (2004).
"Ode to the Industrial Suburbs.” Colorado Review (Summer 2002).
“Virtually Romance.” Fourth Genre 4:1 (2002).
“Batcatching.” The Bellingham Review (Fall 2000).
“I’m From Ballymullet.” The Atlantic Monthly (May 2000).
“Heteroworld.” Colorado Review (Winter 1999).
“Notes on ‘Blood and Guts in High School,’” Smashing Icons 1:1 (1998). Ed. Christine Japely.
“Holiday.” Western Humanities Review 52:3 (1998).
“Come Back Irish.” The Atlantic Monthly (September 1998).
Awards
Winner, Michigan Literary Fiction Award for the Novel, 2007
Fellow, Wesleyan Writers' Conference, 2006
John Farrar Fellow in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2002
Winner, The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction, 2000