Meghan Dowling

 MeghanL. Dowling

Meghan L. Dowling

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  • Reviews7

Biography

Husson University - English


Resume

  • 2014

    The Norumbega Collective

    Husson University

    Bangor

    Maine Area

    Co Director

    The Norumbega Collective

    Bangor

    ME

    Adjunct Instructor

    Writing and Literature

    Husson University

    Orono

    Maine

    Adjunct Faculty

    University of Maine

  • 2013

    Self-Employed

    University of Maine

    I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember

    and a large part of my academic and professional career has been spent helping other writers achieve their goals.\n\nHiring a professional to edit your book can be incredibly helpful. We tend to become “blind” to things that are familiar and commonplace

    and for a writer this can mean missing simple typos

    formatting errors

    continuity issues

    and a whole host of other problems. A fresh set of eyes can do wonders for a manuscript. My role as an editor is to help writers identify their needs: What kind of schedule do they hope to keep? Do they want someone to simply make sure there are no glaring errors

    or are they hoping for detailed critical feedback? How invested are they in revising

    rewriting

    or writing new material? Do they prefer to have an editor return work to in smaller installments

    or all at once? Do they require help formatting their manuscript for ePublishing? When do they hope to publish this manuscript? \n\nSetting goals and expectations is essential to the writer-editor relationship. It’s important for each client to get what they want out of the process

    and I’m here to help them figure out what that might be

    and to provide the level of service appropriate to both the client's needs and the project at hand.

    Self-Employed

  • 2010

    University of Denver

    University of Denver

    Instructor of Writing/Literature (graduate student

    Ph.D.)

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

    English/Creative Writing

    University of Denver

  • 2009

    Eighty Percent Magazine

    Eighty Percent Magazine

  • 2008

    University of Maine

    University of Maine

    Writing instructor (graduate student

    M.A.)

  • 2007

    Literary Criticism

    Higher Education

    Publications

    News Writing

    University Teaching

    Academic Writing

    Proofreading

    Research

    Teaching Writing

    Teaching Adults

    Public Speaking

    Literature

    Report Writing

    Interdisciplinary Teaching

    Creative Writing

    Microsoft Word

    Editing

    Copy Editing

    Proposal Writing

    \"The Purple Shells\"

    \"The Purple Shells\"

    \"Where are you when you're pretending to be someone else?\"

    “The Quiet Body\"

    Issue 19

    “1-8

    ” excerpt from Norfolk

    Mothers

    daughters

    and sisters must both protect and betray. They must maintain appearances in order to hide their pain. Winner of the University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab

    A Catalogue of Small Pains tells the stories of three generations of women whose lives are overshadowed by the secret cruelty of the family patriarch. Layering vignettes

    illustrations

    and instructions on womanhood in America

    this fragmented novel exhibits the memories of a family

    its heartbreak and pain

    and stands as a delicate testament to a world where the past comes once again into focus.\n\"Packaged as a novel

    Meghan L. Dowling's debut A Catalogue of Small Pains unwraps into so much more. A quilted collection of lyrical vignettes

    pamphlet excerpts

    images and captions are sewn together into a multigenerational story of mothers

    daughters

    sisters

    their struggle and trauma hidden from the world in a sometimes all too familiar way.\" -- Meghan O'Neill \"Mom Egg Review\"\n\nMeghan L. Dowling is a writer

    artist

    and Boston-area native. She holds a doctorate in English/Creative Writing from the University of Denver

    an MA from the University of Maine

    and a BA from Brandeis University. She teaches at Husson University and the University of Maine

    and is co-director of the Norumbega Collective

    whose mission is to promote the literary arts in the greater Bangor

    Maine area

    A Catalogue of Small Pains

    \"Grotesque: An Illustrated Essay\"

    Finalist

    2013 Innovative Fiction Contest

    “The Birds That Pick the Bones Clean Are Holy”

    \"Readme\"

    “Kenefic

    OK\"

    \"The History of Violence

    In Two Parts\"

    Meghan L.

    Master of Arts (M.A.)

    English

    University of Maine

  • 1998

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    American Studies

    Program Concentration in Journalism

    Minor in English

    Brandeis University

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