Elizabeth Rollins Curriculum Vitae
Education Goddard College Master in Fine Arts, Creative Writing, February 2001 Seeing Voices (Short story collection)
Washington College Bachelor in Arts, English, May 1990 Honors, Writers Union Award
Teaching Experience Pima Community College August 2009-Current Tucson, AZ Adjunct Faculty. Writing 101,102 Desert Vista Campus, Northwest Campus
University of Arizona Poetry Center September 2010-November 2010 Tucson, AZ Instructor. Curious Beginnings: Introduction to Fiction
Kore Press January 2010-Current Tucson, AZ Mentor and Teacher Grrls Literary Activism Spring Workshops
Naropa University Summer Writing Program Week Three July 2008 Boulder, CO Co-Faculty with Selah Saterstrom: Master Class: Dreaming Language: From the Margins & Across the Borders. Graduate, Undergraduate, SWP Students.
New Jersey Writers Project-Playwrights Theatre September 2001-Summer 2009 Madison, NJ Teaching Artist. Develops and conducts creative writing residencies for various grades in schools around the state. Includes teacher workshops and student anthologies.
Bucks County Community College Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Fall 2005 Newtown, PA Adjunct Faculty. Composition I Creative Writing: Aspects of Fiction. Creative Writing: Prose Writing.
Camden County Community College Fall 2001-Spring 2003 Blackwood, NJ Adjunct Faculty. Composition I Composition II: Literature and Research Creative Writing: Semester long workshop divided between prose and poetry study.
Curious Workshops: See Various Workshops listed Below Spring 2002–Spring 2009 Westmont, NJ POV Creative Writing Workshop: Comprehensive study of points of view through texts, discussion and writing. (Ten weeks) Study achieved through reading, discussion, writing, workshop critiques and final reading performance. Texts included: Charles Baudelaire, Akilah Oliver, William Goyen, Fyodor Doestoyevsky, Laird hunt, Alice Sebold, Albert Camus, Charles Simic. Winter 2009.
Curious Advanced Creative Writing Seminar: Study achieved through reading, discussion, writing and workshop critiques. (Ten weeks) Student chosen texts include excerpts from these authors: James Agee, Jeannette Winterson, Toni Morrison, Kim Addonizio, Jean Valentine, Ruth Stone. Fall 2007.
Dream Creative Writing Workshop: Through examination of Freud, Jung and personal dreams, students learn techniques using dreams or dream symbols in their own texts. September 2007.
Transformation Creative Writing Workshop: Hermaneutic study of transformation using literary texts: from Cuneiform to student’s own writing techniques and styles. Workshop critiques. (Ten weeks) Texts include excerpts from these authors: William Goyen, Jamaica Kincaid, Rebecca Brown, Chase Twichell, Don Delillo, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Millhauser. Spring 2007.
Truth Creative Writing Workshop: Hermaneutic study of truth as revealed in literary texts. Workshop critiques. (Ten Weeks) Texts include excerpts from these authors: Primo Levi, Brothers Grimm, Tim O’Brien, Marie Howe, Alexandra Fuller, Rebecca Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright. Fall 2006.
Book Study Creative Writing Workshops In-depth study of a single text for ten weeks, including Creative Writing assignments developed from the text, and workshop critiques.: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Ten Weeks) Spring 2005 To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, (Ten Weeks) Fall 2004 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (Ten Weeks) Spring 2003 The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (Ten weeks) Spring 2002
Writing Workshops Beginner and intermediate Creative Writing workshops. In class writing, revision critiques, workshop critiques. Some authors studied: Anton Chekov, Jose Saramago, Gina Berriault, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jane Kenyon, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wright, Seamus Heaney, Yukio Mishima, Raymond Carver. Spring 2002-Spring 2005
Rutgers-Camden: Center for Arts & Education: Visual Poetry Workshops Spring 2006-Spring 2008 Camden, New Jersey Teaching Artist. Poetry workshops for students taught in collaboration with visual artists.
Arts & Literacy Integration - Camden Public Schools-Third Grade Spring 2008 Camden, New Jersey Teaching Artist. Developed and taught ekphrastic writing workshops in third grade classrooms.
Arts & Literacy Integration - Camden Public Schools-Teacher Development Fall 2007 Camden, New Jersey Teaching Artist. Development workshop for public school teachers on ways of integrating arts into the curriculum. (Single Day Workshops)
Atlantic Center for the Arts May 2006 New Smyrna Beach, Florida Creative Writing Panel Workshop Moderator. Adult workshop on the generation of ideas and honing craft.
Awards Distinguished Teaching Artist-New Jersey Council on the Arts, 2007 Prose Fellowship- New Jersey Council on the Arts, 2003 Special Mention- Pushcart Prize Anthology, 2007 “Joint Custody” Winner- Philadelphia City Paper Fiction Contest, 1999 “The Boy”
Publications Conjunctions, “The First Intifada,” Fall 2009 Flint Hill Review, “Talk of Dreams,” Fall 2009 Fact-Simile Press, “I am the Cimitière de Montmartre,” Fall 2009 Raintaxi, Review of The Haunted House by Rebecca Brown, Summer 2008 Trickhouse, “Collaboration:12 x 2” Spring 2008 Not Enough Night (Naropa), “local: conversations” Fall 2007 Boy Bedlam Review, “My Virginia History” Fall 2007 Green Mountains Review, “The New Plague” Spring 2007 Tarpaulin Sky, “They Say Sillith Wharsh Is Dead” Winter 2006-7 New England Review, “Joint Custody”, Vol 26 #2 House Taken Over, “Photographing the Boys” Issue 2, 2006 Corvid Press, Chapbook, “The Sin Eater” Spring 2004 GW Review, “The Sin Eater” Spring 2004 Bellevue Literary Review, “At the Window” Spring 2004 Storyglossia, “What Raggedy Ann Said” Issue #4 Redwood Coast Review, “I See Her” Vol 5, #3 PMS Journal, “Tail” Spring 2004 Frisk Magazine, “The Appeal of Chaos” Issue # 2 Spring 2002 Washington College Magazine, “The Boy” Spring 2001 Winner- Philadelphia City Paper Fiction Contest,“The Boy” Winter 1999
Reading Series Traveling Reading Series for the Curious January 2007-Current Various locations Curator
The Curiosity Symposium January 2007-Current Westmont, NJ Co-Curator with Ben Johnson
See Hear Now-Fiction and Poetry Readings Fall 2005-Summer 2006 Collingswood, NJ Curator
Residencies Artists & Teachers Institute Summer 2006 Rutgers-Camden NJ Full Scholarship-New Jersey Council on the Arts
Port Townsend Writer’s Conference Summer 2005 Port Townsend, WA Full Scholarship-Centrum
Rittenhouse Writers Group Member 1996-1998 Philadelphia, PA Workshop Critique Sessions
Performed Works “The 2nd Year” Trickhouse Reading, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, NY, August 2008 “The Sin Eater” by Interact Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, October 2005 “The New Plague” by Playwrights Theatre, Madison, NJ, March 2004
Additional Professional Experience Casa Libre en la Solana (Writing Programming and Residencies) Current Tucson, AZ Vice President, Board of Directors
Elsevier Scientific Publications March 2005-Current Philadelphia, PA Freelance Developmental Editor.
Caldera Journal Winter 1992 Jackson Hole, Wyoming Assistant Art Editor.
Beacham Publishing Winter 1987-1988, Summer 1988 Editorial Intern.
Writer’s Union (Washington College) September1988-May 1990 President. Produced broadside poetry series.
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