Anna Lowe Weber | Curriculum Vitae

Education:

MFA in Poetry: Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Thesis: A Little Task in Which You Crawl Out of the Sea

Director: Donald Platt

BA in English: College of Charleston, Charleston SC

Minor: Creative Writing

Thesis: On the Uses of the Canine

Director: Carol Ann Davis

Teaching: 

University of Alabama in Huntsville: Fall 2011- present

English 101: Freshman Composition

English 102: Freshman Composition

English 211: Introduction to Creative Writing

English 410/510: Fiction Writing

English 411/511: Poetry Writing

English 498: Independent Study

Pennsylvania State University, Altoona: Fall 2009- Spring 2011

English 15: Rhetoric and Composition

English 50: Introduction to Creative Writing

Purdue University: Fall 2005- Spring 2009

English 106: Introductory Composition

English 205: Introduction to Creative Writing

Axia College, University of Phoenix: Fall 2008- 2012

Communication 150: Effective Essay Writing

Communication 155: University Composition and Communication I

Communication 156:  University Composition and Communication II

Publications (chronological):

Poetry:

Black Warrior Review: “The Lecturer” (2004, Issue 31:4)

Dislocate:  “Aviary;” “If Not Latvia, Then What?” (2006)

Cimarron Review: “Night Wash” (2008, Issue 163)

Makeout Creek: “Dwell,” “Autobiography” (2008, Issue 2)

Colorado Review: “Why Don’t You Tell Me How You Feel About It?” (2009 Issue 36:2)

Redivider: “This Winter, I’ve Spent a Considerable Amount of Time Dreaming About Grandmothers”: (2009, Issue 7:1)

Iowa Review: “Onset of Winter” (2009, Issue 39.3)

Bellingham Review: “My Mother’s Final Words,” “Forgive Me” (2009, Issue 61)

Green Mountains Review:  “Tale (2009, Vol. XXII, No.1) ” (also featured on Verse Daily, 2009)

Connotation Press: “Old Hurts,” “Red Bird Poetics” (2010)

2River View: “A Man Dies in the South.  A Widow Mourns.” “Of Course the Dead Are Hungry” (2011, Issue 15:3)

Red River Review: “I Come From a Long Line of Great Southern Jewels” (2011, Issue 39)

The Boxcar Review: “All We Didn’t Know We Didn’t Know” (2011, Issue 29)

Ascent: “Santo Subito” (2011); “Bombs in Springtime” (2013)

Rattle: “Spring Break 2011” (finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize) (2011, Issue 36)

Blue Mesa Review: “Husband, before we married” (2012, Issue 25)

The Florida Review: “Our Skunk,” “In Our New House” (2012, Issue 37.1)

Linebreak: “Inspection” (2012)

Ninth Letter: “Pre-Natal Musings” (2012, Issue 9.1)

Salamander: “Blessing for the Unborn,” “By metaphor you paint a thing” (2012, Issue 18.1)

Palooka: “Domestic Bliss in Four Parts,” “These Among the Things You Gave Me,” “Concerns of the Home and Family,” “This Is No Parable,” “Death Instructions For a Lover” (2013,Issue 3)

The Mom Egg Review: “At the Little Gym” (2014, Vol. 12); “My Daughter’s Mouth” (2015, Vol. 13)

Bluestem Magazine: “Luck,” “American Song” (2014)

Hoot and Hare Review: “Fresh Envy,” “Nine Plant Names…” “Instinct” (2014, Issue 2)

Hermeneutic Chaos: “Conversations” (also chosen as an honorable mention for the 2014 Jane Lumley Prize)

2 Bridges Review: "Return to Indiana,” "After Spending the Summer Watching All Seven Seasons of The Sopranos" (2015, Issue 4)

Reunion: The Dallas Review: “When you ask to hear the story of your birth”; “To My Husband, Now an Atheist but Once an Evangelical Christian” (2015, Issue 5)

The McNeese Review: “The Blood”; “Charleston Lament” (2015, Issue 52)

The Kentucky Review: “Before You Had a Name” (2016)

Anthology: The Sonnets: "On My First Valentine's Day After Giving Birth: A Sonnet For My Husband”

Full: An Anthology of Moon Poems: “Night Wash” (2016)

The Beechwood Review: “Toddler” (Issue 2)

The Boiler: “How Do I Braid It Into My Very Being, Child?”; “You’ve Now Spent the Morning” (2016, Summer Issue)

Blessing for the Unborn, chapbook, Finishing Line Press (January 2017)

Driftwood Press: “When You Left, I tried to Find Homes in Air Pockets” (Vol. Three, Issue 3)

3Elements Review: “Beta” (Issue 13); also nominated for 2017 Best of the Net Anthology

Gargoyle Magazine: “Block Island, 2015” (Summer 2017 40th Anniversary Issue)

Tishman Review: “Years Later” (summer 2017, Vol. 3 Issue 3)

Del Sol Review: “Apiary”; “After Watching the HBO Special, Olive Kitteridge” (Issue 22, 2017)

The West Texas Review: “I’m Not Sure What You Were Thinking” (Issue Three, Summer 2017)

Catamaran: “To My Student…” (Spring/Summer 2019 vol.7 issue 1)

Tar River Poetry Review: “"The Cat, Forever Missing" and "Your Family Members Said Not to Write Poetry about Them”  (Vol. 58, Issue 2)

Twyckenham Notes: “My Daughter Remembers the Dead Shark” and “I felt it coming on”  (Spring 2019, issue 8)

Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulism: “Variations on a Domestic Theme” (2019)

Cimarron Review: “Those things we do not talk about, like” (Issue 208, 2020)

3Elements Review: “When You Asked” (Issue 24, 2020)

Blue Earth Review: “The Last of It” (Issue 24, 2020)

The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal: “For Lila on her seventh birthday” and “My seven year-old wants to hear the story of the green ribbon again” (75th Anniversary issue, 2021)

Poet Lore: “There Must Be a German Word for It,” “I Was a Smoker Once,” “Death Was All Around Us That Spring” (Issue 115.4, Spring 2021)

Nimrod: “Another Fish Has Died” (Spring/Summer 2021)

Passengers: “Eight is the Anniversary” (December 2021)

Josephine Quarterly: “Domestica” (Fall 2021) 

Fiction:

Flock: “You Have Decided to Stop Engaging in Social Media” (Issue 22)

The South Carolina Review: “Fault” (Issue 53.1)

Novel forthcoming from TouchPoint Press: Love, Love (2022)

Awards/Honors: 

2017: Nominee, Best of the Net Anthology

2017: Semi-finalist, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize

2015: 2nd Place, Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest

2014: Honorable Mention, the Jane Lumley Prize in Poetry

2012: Semi-finalist; Idaho Prize for Poetry

2011: Rattle Poetry Prize finalist

2009: Pushcart Prize nominee

2008: Honorable Mention, creative non-fiction, 77th Annual Purdue Literary Awards

2008: Winner, Kneale Award in poetry, 77th Annual Purdue Literary Awards

2007: Nominee, National Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship

2007: Honorable Mention, poetry, 76th Annual Purdue Literary Awards

2007: Winner, Kneale Award in poetry, 76th Annual Purdue Literary Awards

2006: Honorable Mention, poetry, 75th Annual Purdue Literary Awards 

Relevant Coursework:

English 502: Practicum in Teaching Creative Writing

English 505: Approaches to Teaching College English

English 560: Modern American Poetry

English 561: Modern British Poetry

English 594: Contemporary Poetry

English 596: Creative Nonfiction

English 596: Twentieth-Century Long Poem

English 606: Seminar in Poetry Writing

English 607: Craft of Poetry