CURRICULUM VITAE

C o u r t n e y M a n dr y k

born 1979 in Kingston, New York courtneymandryk@gmail.com

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

EMPLOYMENT:

* Preschool Assistant, Free Union Country School, 2024

* Substitute teacher and Club teacher, Free Union Country School, 2023
* Art teacher, Free Union Country School, 2021-2023
* Graphic design, David Wax Museum, 2021-present
* Founder, Editorial Director, Root & Star magazine (rootandstar.com), 2015-

2020
* Book designer, Essay Press (essaypress.org), 2014-2016
* Director, teacher, Write After Breakfast (low-income writing workshop), Ann

Arbor, MI, 2008-2012
* Thesis Advisor, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI,

2010-2012
* Guest Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Michigan, 2010
* Lecturer, English Composition, University of Michigan Language & Literature,

2005
* Copy Editor, Oxford University Press, 2005
* Graduate Student Instructor, Creative Writing, University of Michigan

Language & Literature, 2003-2005
* Assistant to the Director, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-

2003

* Art teacher, Shiloh Quaker Camp, 2000-2001

SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS:
(group shows unless otherwise noted)

* Numerous visual contributions to Root & Star, 2015-2020
* “You Are Where You Live,” photographs to accompany poems by Megan

Levad, publication info TBA
* “Mothers of Fine Art,” Gravity Building, Bloomington, IN, October 2015
* solo show, 671 W. Johnson St, Philadelphia, PA, "The Longest Uninterrupted

Residential Block," August 2014
* Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA, “Gesturing into Consciousness,” April 2013 * Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, “Spinning Yarns,” August 2012
* Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, “6×6×2008,” June 2008 * Vintage 2 Vogue, Ann Arbor, MI, “Transatlantic,” 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 halves of two stories" two-

person show, 2000

SELECTED LITERARY PUBLICATIONS:

* “A Sea of Silk” in Mudfish issue 23
* Numerous literary contributions to Root & Star, 2015-2020 * “Condensation Early Morning” in Hayden’s Ferry Review
* “Containers that Hold Prayer” in Poydras

* “Our Bones Like Stars Like Milk” and “To Get Inside Something” in

Appalachian Heritage

* "The Looped Pauses" in Epiphany, Summer 2014
* “On This Sharp Planet with My Water-Balloon Heart” in boxofjars.com, Spring

2014
* “Write After Breakfast,” essay in PRISM Magazine, Winter 2013
* “Scrim” Literary Mama, October 2013
* “Dark (40 Weeks)” the Adirondack Review, June 2013
* “Folding Space to Bring You Back: three poems” in conjunction with Christina

P. Day’s exhibit in Napoleon Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April

2013
* “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

AWARDS AND HONORS:
* Parents’ Choice Gold Award, Root & Star, 2019
* Vermont Studio Center residency, poetry, 2009
* Merit Scholarship, 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 / Valedictorian, School of Visual Arts, PSU, 2001 * Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, 2001