1997: Vermont College, of Norwich University, Montpelier,
VT: M.F.A. in Creative Writing (poetry).
1989: New School for Social Research, New York, NY:
B.A. in Liberal Arts. (Transferred from Carleton College, MN.)
Teaching Experience
2014-present: Barnard College
Instructor: Advanced and Intermediate Poetry
Workshops; Beginning Fiction Workshop in undergraduate program.
2008-present: New York University, Adjunct Professor
Creative Writing. Teach craft of writing, and conduct
workshop for undergraduate students in NYU's undergraduate
degree program.
2005-2012: New School University, Adjunct Professor
of Creative Writing. Teach craft class and workshop, “Poetry
Lab,” to undergraduates and non-credit students in the New
School Writing Program.
2009-present: Zen Mountain Monastery, Brooklyn —
all-day poetry workshop retreats.
2006: Hampshire College Independent supervisor for
6-month tutorial and supervision of creative thesis.
2003: Franklin & Marshall College,
Lancaster, PA — Taught craft classes, conducted workshops, and
gave individual student conferences and readings at
the Emerging Poets Festival.
2002: Bread Loaf Writers'
Conference, Middlebury College, VT — Teaching
Fellow. Co-taught and conducted a workshop for conference
participants with Tom Sleigh. Taught craft class, “The Prose
Poem.”
Prizes, Honors, Awards
Katharine Bakeless Nason Literary Publication Award, 2001, for first collection, SWALLOW.
The Nation / "Discovery" Award, 1999
Pushcart Prize, 2003
The PSA Festival of New American Poets, 2005: included in the festival honoring debut collections.”
National Poetry Series, 2000 Finalist (withdrew entry when notified of Bakeless Prize).
National Poetry Series, 2011 Finalist.
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,
1999 — John Ciardi Scholar in Poetry; 2002.
Library of Congress Fall Series: 2006 Literary Season. Chosen to read at the Library of Congress with Jack Gilbert, in reading series honoring emerging poets’ and established poets’ ‘significant accomplishments.’
Publications
SWALLOW (full length collection of poems), published in 2002 by Houghton Mifflin.
LEGITIMATE DANGERS: American Poets of the New Century (anthology), Sarabande Books; January 2006. Poems.
THE PUSHCART BOOK OF POETRY: The Best Poems from Thirty Years of The Pushcart Prize; ed. Joan Murray; The Pushcart Press, 2006. Poem, “Cock Robin.”
ABOUT WHAT WAS LOST: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, (anthology), Penguin USA, 2006. An essay, “My Others” appears in the anthology.
EFFORTS & AFFECTIONS: New Women Poets on Influence, (anthology), University of Iowa Press, 2008.
NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, (anthology), Fence Books, 2007
Various book reviews have appeared in The Boston Review;
Review of Rachel Zucker’s THE LAST CLEAR NARRATIVE, Xantippe, in 2007
Article on teaching writing to adolescents in Teachers & Writers (Vol. 33, No.3)
Essay “On Influence: Fanny Howe” was published in Lyric Magazine
Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in:
Agni (Spring '01)
Antioch Review (Fall, '99)
Bomb (Fall '03)
Boomerang ('98 issue)
The Boston Review (October/November '98)
The Boston Review – “Poet's Sampler” (with introduction by critic James Longenbach, October/November '00)
Colorado Review (Spring '99, Fall/Winter '02)
Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, issue #39 ('05)
Crossroads (Journal of the Poetry Society of America) ('06)
Denver Quarterly, (Vol. 37, no. 4, '03)
Fence (Fall '00)
Jubilat (Fall, '10)
La Petite Zine (Fall, '10)
The Nation (May 17, '99)
Post Road (Spring '01)
Pleiades (Spring '02)
Ploughshares (Spring '03)
Rivendell (Spring '04)
Triquarterly (Spring / Summer '04)
Washington Square (Fall/Winter '09)
Xantippe ('04)
An audio reading of 8 poems, along with a Q & A discussion of my writing is available on the archival website, fishousepoems.org, in Fall 2008.