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Ellen Boyette
721 Brown St. #2
Iowa City, IA 52245
EDUCATION
2019 MFA Poetry, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
2017 BA English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Magna Cum Laude. Distinction in English. Highest Honors in Creative Writing
2015 Sewanee: University of the South, General Education
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2021 Instructor of Philosophy, NC Governor's School East
2019 . Teaching Assistant, Poetry Writing, Department of Creative Writing, University of Iowa
2018 Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Poetry Workshop, Department of Creative Writing, University of Iowa
2018 Teaching Assistant, General Education- Literature (Honors Program), Department of English, University of Iowa
2017 Teaching Assistant, General Education- Literature, Department of English, University of Iowa
EDITIORIAL POSITIONS
2020 Editorial Assistant, Nonfiction, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
2019 Editorial Assistant at Rescue Press
2019 Freelance Copyeditor at Catapult Books
2019 Editorial Assistant, Nonfiction, Iowa Review
2017- 2019 Editorial Assistant, Poetry, Iowa Review
2014- 2015 Layout Editor of The Mountain Goat
2012- 2013 Poetry Editorial Staff of Cellar Door
AWARDS/ HONORS
2021 Finalist for the CSU Lighthouse Series Poetry Book Prize, judged by Shane McCrae
2019 Finalist for Slope Editions 2019 Book Prize, judged by Solmaz Sharif
2019 Alberta Kelley Fellowship at The Iowa Writers' Workshop ($8000)
2018 Teaching-Writing Fellow at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop
2017 Ann Burrus Williams Academy of American Poets College Prize ($750)
2017 Wanda Chappell Random House Scholarship (over $6000)
2017 University of North Carolina Honors Thesis in Poetry
2016 University of North Carolina Blanche Armfield Prize for Poetry ($500)
2015 University of the South Walter E. Dakin Scholarship for Creative Writing
2012 Beverly Russell Award for Creative Writing
2009 Carl Sandburg Poetry Contest’s People’s Choice Award for “Man of Glory”
PUBLICATIONS
2021 I A Mere Spade at Afternoon Visitor
2021 Hand In A Glass at Afternoon Visitor
2021 Answer Me Does the Crow and Likens at Blazing Stadium
2021 I Hiss Hearing the Fade at Blazing Stadium
2021 Five of Pentacles at Blazing Stadium
2020 [In this one macabre is pronounced mackabray and abruptly the large party leaves their uneaten plates to go clubbing] at jubilat
2020 [In this one I have made for the function the dawn dress down and the nematodes lithe like an anklet or an ankle or Febreze] at jubilat
2020 [In this one the word blue remained off limits and blue was the sole limit though whispers were worth little as currency] at jubilat
2020 [In this one I play my voice back to me in the crowded café so no one may see me behind this expensive and garish mink hat] at jubilat
2020 [In this one the prognosis was clamorous movement about the cage to invoke regret in those who refused my request to waltz] at jubilat
2020 Review of Annelyse Gelman and Jason Grier's About Repulsion EP in Rain Taxi
2019 [In this one the townspeople in their strokable hat mitten and scarf sets admit my shovel was stolen and I need to plant garlic] at The Columbia Review
2019 [In this one of a severed twig in water rim I place to frond from voodoo doll dropped in ice the doll now grown I hibernate maligned] in The Columbia Review
2019 [In this one pistachios fall from my mouth-- woodchips into the abyss-- bullshit circus critics pick lint from my back at half-mast] at Denver Quarterly
2019 Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark at The Iowa Review
2019 In This One Evangeline (1-31) at Pulpmouth
2019 [In this one the nurse takes my height and weight only to find I hold controversial beliefs about sunsets causing seizures] at Bennington Review
2019 [In this one the obituary is a necklace with lettered beads reading SHE ALWAYS LOVED THOSE LETTERED BEADS] at Ninth Letter
2019 [In this one the young men say the translucent mask is the instrument of ecstasy but my pleasure source is arbitrary] at Prelude
2019 [In this one the derision is milk staggered with soil and I am in question as intelligentsia bewildered in dust and frayed velour] at Prelude
2019 [ In this one lasik eye surgery is considered as well as lingerie but ultimately the decision is futile and I am corrupted by a number of needles] at Prelude
2018 [In this one the duvet is woven with gelatin and static and I am its concubine with too many caretakers] at New Delta Review
2018 "Oregon Trail (1992) Anthologized by Poetry Daily
2018 "Still Life with Holofernes at Cover Mag
2018 Interview with Amanda Nadelberg at The Iowa Review
2018 “Oregon Trail (1992)” at Flag + Void
2018 Small Talk at TAGVVERK
2018 Double Take at TAGVVERK
2018 Dilated at TAGVVERK
2018 Self Portrait as Glitched Sky at TAGVVERK
2018 Interviewed by Bella Volfson at KRUI Online
2017 “Reverse Evolution of Various Non-Mammals” at Leveler
2017 “Whelm” at poets.org
2017 “Sonar” at Miscellany
2017 “Reverse Calenture” at Miscellany
2017 “How to Dig While Walking Up a Hill” at Cellar Door
2016 “Intravenous Fly Trap” at HHIVE
2016 “Uncycle” at Cellar Door
2016 “Helvetica” at THE WHALE
2016 “<Icon>ography” at THE WHALE
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