Resume

• 2016

  Dawn

  Davies

  Appomattox Regional Governor's School

  Gulf Stream Literary Magazine

  St. Mark's School of Texas

  Writers in Paradise

  University of South Carolina Upstate

  Florida International University - Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

  The Center for Writing and Literature

  Self-employed

  FLORIDA LITERARY ARTS COALITION

  INC.

  Florida International University

  Miami

  Taught Intro to Lit for undergraduates.

  2018 – Instructor

  “Introduction to Literature\"

  Florida International University

  Spartanbuurg

  SC

  Instructor

  University of South Carolina Upstate

  Dallas

  Texas

  United States

  Visiting lecturer for the 2019 St. Mark's School Literary Festival.

  Visiting Lecturer

  St. Mark's School of Texas

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  Staff Reader

  Gulf Stream Literary Magazine

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  2016 – Instructor

  “Analytical Writing and Presentation”

  Florida International University - Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  Assistant Fiction Editor

  Gulf Stream Literary Magazine

  St. Augustine

  Forida

  Conference Presenter

  Flagler College “Humor in Creative Nonfiction” Workshop

  FLORIDA LITERARY ARTS COALITION

  INC.

  Fort Lauderdale

  Florida

  United States

  I help people ready their manuscripts for publication. I started with self-help and business in 2004. I added literary/creative work in 2015.

  Manuscript Editor

  Self-employed

  Tampa/St. Petersburg

  Florida Area

  Craft talk on creating persona in nonfiction writing.

  Visiting Lecturer

  Writers in Paradise

  Miami

  Florida

  Course Instructor

  Florida International University

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  Workshop Instructor

  The Center for Writing and Literature

  Petesburg

  VA

  Workshop Instructor

  Appomattox Regional Governor's School

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  Fiction Editor

  Gulf Stream Literary Magazine

  “Three Places” – Won the Kentucky Women Writers Conference Gabehart Award for Nonfiction

  Essay “Disquiet and the Lyrics Essay” – Finalist in the 2105 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest

  Fourth Genre

  Essay “Keeping the Faith” – Best American Essays “Notable Essay

  ” 2017

  Best American Essay Notable

  Best American Essays

  Essay “King of the World” – Best American Essays “Notable Essay\"

  Notable

  Best American Essays

  “Giver of Life” – Finalist for the Arcadia Fiction Chapbook Contest

  “Mothers of Sparta” (essay) – Finalist for SLS Disquiet Literary Contest

  March 2015 – scholarship to writer’s conference in Lisbon

  Portugal

  Essay

  \"Mothers of Sparta\" Winner of the 2016 Arts and Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction

  Georgia College Arts and Letters Magazine

  “Birayshul” – voted “Most Notable Essay” by Hippocampus Magazine

  The Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Nonfiction

  The Great Lakes Colleges Association

  Short Story “Something Merciful” – Finalist for the New Millennium Writing Contest

  Memoir Mothers of Sparta – Won Florida International University Provost Award for Graduate Student Outstanding Creative Project – 2015

  Florida International University

  “How to Be a Crappy Mother” – Finalist the Tucson Festival of Books Fiction

  Essay “Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Mom

  ” – Pushcart Prize Special Mention

  Special Mention

  The Pushart Prize

  The Florida Book Award

  Winner of The a Florida Book Award in a General Nonfiction

  “Games I Play” (essay) – Won Florida International University’s Graduate Student Literature Award for Nonfiction – 2015

  Florida International University

  Essay “Don’t Like It Too Much” – Best American Essays “Notable Essay\"

  Best American Essays

  Writer in Residence

  Petersburg

  VA

  Appomattox Regional Governor's School

• 2012

  Master of Fine Arts - MFA

  Studied fiction

  creative nonfiction and digital publishing.

  Creative Writing

  Florida International University

• 1997

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies

  Vermont College of Fine Arts

• Creative Writing

  Creative Non-fiction

  Higher Education

  Workshops

  Book Reviews

  Public Speaking

  Book Writing

  Copywriting

  editing

  Social Media

  Blackboard

  Microsoft PowerPoint

  Canvas

  Instructional Design

  Leadership

  Microsoft Office

  Teaching

  Creative Arts

  Moodle

  Editing

  Music to Play If I Fall into a Coma

  Music to Play If I Fall into a Coma

  \"Mothers of Sparta”

  “Disquiet and the Lyric Essay”

  “Centaur”

  Poem in print version of magazine.

  An Awful Estrangement of Parts from the Whole

  “The Dress\"

  My poem \"Mailing a Letter\" was Poem of the Day for Poetry Daily!

  \"Mailing a Letter\"

  “Soccer Mom”

  Academic Creative Nonfiction Anthology

  \"Arrhythmia\"

  \"Anatomy\"

  “Keeping the Faith\"

  Mothers of Sparta

  “Contributors on Craft: Dawn S. Davies on Truth-Seeking and Audience Response”

  “Rejection Wiki: An Amalgam”

  Forthcoming essay \"Sinkhole\" in The Alaska Quarterly Review

  Spring 2020

  \"Sinkhole\"

  “Something Merciful”

  “King of the World\"

  “Above Rubies\"

  “Birayshul\"

  “Arrhythmia”