Resume

Steven Sherrill
Penn State Altoona
3000 Ivyside Park
Altoona, PA 16601
814-949-5450
kss15@psu.edu

EDUCATION

  • MFA in Poetry - 1991-1993
    The Iowa Writer’s Workshop, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
  • BA in English Literature - 1986-1991
    University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Vocational Diploma in Welding - 1980
    Mitchell Community College, Statesville, North Carolina.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing & Integrative Arts - July 2006-Present
    Penn State University, Altoona Campus
  • Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing - Fall 2000- July 2006
    Penn State University, Altoona Campus
  • Instructor, “The Novel Process” (a week-long course for beginning novelists) - June 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
    Iowa Summer Writing Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

  • Recommended for Pulitzer Prize, by Random House Publishers, for Visits From the Drowned Girl. - Summer 2004
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Fiction - 2002
  • The MacDowell Colony, Fellowships - September - October 1994; January 2005

PUBLICATIONS

Art Writing
  • “Haunch of Rosenquist: Misremembering Jim.” ArtReview. October 2006
  • “A Day in the Life of Ana Mendieta.” Modern Painters: International Arts and Culture. 138 (Summer 2006).
  • “The Final Visitor: on John Constable.” TATE Etc. 86 (Summer 2006)
  • “Henri & Me.” Modern Painters: International Arts and Culture. 98-100 (Novemer 2005).
  • “Kiki and Me: an Interview with Kiki Smith.” Modern Painters: International Arts & Culture. 74-79 (Summer 2005).
  • “In Search of Ed Kienholz: Expert.” Modern Painters: International Arts and Culture. 72-77 (Summer 2004).
Novels
  • The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. Winston-Salem NC: John F. Blair, Publishers. 2000; NY: Picador USA. 2002; Edinburgh: Canongate, Publishers. 2003; Greece: Dioptra; Holland: Ambo Anthos; Israel: Kinneret-Zmora Bitan-Dvir; Italy: Minimum Fax; Japan: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing; Portugal: Temas e Debates; Russia: Amphora; Spain: Emece. 2004-2005
  • Visits From the Drowned Girl. NY: Random House/Bartlesman. Summer 2004; Edinburgh: Canongate, Publishers. 2004; Germany, Spain, Holland. 2005-2006
  • The Locktender’s House. NY: Random House/Bartlesman. Forthcoming, Spring 2008.