Courtney Mandryk lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband, Stephen Warrington, his daughter Rosie, sometimes their godson Jack, and always the two dogs and two cats. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and an MFA in visual art from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is seeking a publisher for a stereographic manuscript of creative nonfiction. Contact her this way: courtneymandryk[at]hotmail[dot]com. This is her studio, up there in those top two windows of the Yellow Barn. The Yellow Barn Project is a fantastic community space in the downstairs of the barn. Some cool people turned this former grocery store into an arts community space. She is glad to live just a fifteen-minutes’ walk from her beautiful studio, which serves as a space for making things of all sort, visual and literary.

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curriculum vitae

C o u r t n e y  M a n d r y k
born 1979 in Kingston, New York

Schools and Degrees:

* Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA Visual Art (Fiber) 2005-2007
* University of Michigan, MFA Creative Writing (Poetry) 2003-2005
* Penn State University, BFA Painting/Drawing, BA English, 1997-2002, with honors through the Schreyer Honors College; school marshal of School of Visual Arts, 3.8 GPA
* Yale University, Yale/Norfolk Summer Art Program, 2000

Literary Publications:
[ literary representation: Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Brick House, NY, NY ]

* “Poem to get my brother’s little finger back” and “Poem as My Brother, Gluing the Airplane Back Together,” Listen Up, 2007, guest edited by Peter Markus
* “Twin” in Cream City Review, Fall 2007 Volume 31 Number 2
* “Shift” in Cimarron Review, Summer 2007, issue 160
* “60% of Marriages End in Death” and “Poem to Climb a Mountain Bearing Gifts” in Listen Up, 2006, guest edited by Brian Evenson
* “[When it rains it pours]” in Southeast Review, Winter 2006/07, volume 24 number 1-2
* “[Trees whipped bare]” in Slope online (slope.org), Spring/Summer 2006, issue 23
* “Daydreams with Ex-wife as Destroyed Dressers” The Diagram at www.thediagram.com issue 5.6
*”Flat” in Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology , ed. Laurence Goldstein, University of Michigan Press, Spring 2005
*”Flat” and “Light Burden” in Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005

Art Exhibitions:

* Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, “6×6×2008,” June 2008
* Vintage 2 Vogue, Ann Arbor, MI, “Translatlantic,” December 2007
* Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills, MI, May 2007
* Destination 1111 Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, “…on your remark,” June 2006
* Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, “all the things I should have said,” January 2006
* Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, “Memorable History and Historic Memory,” November 2005
* Adam and Art Gallery, (solo exhibition), “Objects of a Preposition,” 2001
* Yale Art Gallery, Norfolk, Connecticut, Yale/Norfolk Scholarship Exhibition, June 2000
* Zoller Art Gallery, Penn State University, BFA Show 1999-2001
* Zoller Art Gallery, Penn State University, Juried Show, 2000
* Patterson Gallery, Penn State University, two-person show, 2000

Work and Volunteer Experience:

———-Teaching:

* Guest Lecturer, University of Michigan, 2010

* Writing Workshop for the homeless, St. Andrew’s Breakfast Program, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008-present
* Lecturer: English 125 (College Writing), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Summer 2005
* Graduate Student Instructor: English 125 (College Writing), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Winter 2005
* Graduate Student Instructor: English 223 (Creative Writing), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Fall 2004
* Graduate Student Instructor: Grader for three English courses, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Fall 2003-Summer 2004

———-Editing:

* Editor: TriMark Publications (editing medical documents), 2005
* Editor: Oxford University Press (editing ESL textbooks), 2005-present
* Other freelance editing: edited two dissertations and hundreds of student essays, 2003-2005.

———-Other Work and Volunteer Experience:

* Assistant to the Director (grant writing, letter writing, overseer of 300+ literary readings and events), Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2002-2003
* Art Instructor, Mother Bethel Church, Philadelphia, PA 2002
* Art Volunteer Instructor, State College School District, State College, PA 2001
* Art Editor, Kalliope Magazine, Penn State University, 2000-2002
* Art Director, Shiloh Quaker Camp, Stanardsville, VA 1999-2001

Awards and Honors:

* Merit Scholarship, Second Year, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2006
* Gutterman Award for New and Unusual Poetry, U of M, 2005
* Hopwood Creative Writing Poetry Award, U of M, 2004
* Full fellowship to M.F.A. Creative Writing program, U of M, 2003
* School Marshal, School of Visual Arts, PSU, 2001
* Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, 2001
* Creative Achievement Award, PSU, 2001
* Katie Lehman Poetry Award, PSU 2001
* Zoller Art Award, PSU 2001
* Undergraduate Poetry Award, PSU 2000
* Zoller Art Award, PSU 2000
* Penn State Honors Program, 1997-2001

Readings and Performances:

* Mark Webster Poetry Reading, U of M, 2004
* “Decreation: An Opera in Three Parts” with Anne Carson, U of M, 2004
* Guild House Poetry Reading, U of M, 2003
* Poets Against the War Poetry Reading, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2002
* Poetry Reading, Kelly Writers House, Univ of PA, 2001
* Several performance art pieces, PSU 2000, 2001