GREGORY EMILIO, PHD
curriculum vitae
gemilio87@gmail.com ·https://gregemilio.com/ ·(909) 518-2528
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Literature with Creative Dissertation (Poetry), Georgia State University, 2020
Dissertation: Whenever You Eat This
Committee: David Bottoms, Beth Gylys (Chair), Josh Russell
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), University of California, Riverside, 2013 Thesis: The Book of Bodies
Committee: Chris Abani (Chair), Chris Buckley, Juan Felipe Herrera
B.A., English. Cum Laude. California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, 2009.
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present Lecturer of English, Kennesaw State University
ENGL 1101, 1102: Beginning and Advanced Composition
2020-2021 Instructor of Core Studies, Oglethorpe University
CORE 101, 102: Narratives of the Self I and II
2015-2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia State University
ENGL 3180: Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 3150: Introduction to Poetry Workshop
ENGL 1102: Advanced Composition
ENGL 1101: Beginning Composition
2013-2015 Part-time Instructor, Chaffey Community College
ENGL 1A, 1B: Beginning and Advanced Composition
2012-2013 Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of California, Riverside
CRWT 57: Beginning Poetry Workshop
CRWT 56: Intro to Creative Writing: Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction
RELATED ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2019-2020 Writing Tutor, Georgia State University Writing Studio
2014-2015 Faculty Advisor, Language Success Center at Chaffey College
2011-2014 Academic Mentor, Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College
2010-2011 Writing Tutor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University, 2010-2011.
EDITORIAL/PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
2017-2020 Creative Nonfiction Editor, New South
2015-2019 Assistant Editor, Five Points
2011-2013 Assistant Editor, Crate
2009-2010 Copy Editor, Plastic Water
BOOKS
Kitchen Apocrypha, Able Muse Press, forthcoming in 2022 (poetry collection)
Finalist for the Able Muse Book Award, judged by Mark Jarman
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Able Muse, “Diminishing Sestina,” forthcoming
Southern Humanities Review, “After the Last Supper,” forthcoming
Cumberland River Review, “St. Prodigal,” Spring 2021
North American Review, “Hymn to Fennel (Máratho),” Spring 2021
Mid-American Review, “Meditation at Waffle House,” Spring 2021
Permafrost, “Reckoning,” Winter 2021
Rock & Sling, “Butter Thief,” Fall 2020
Georgia Poetry Society’s Reach of Song, “The Book of Salt” and “For Everything in Paradise,” Summer 2020
[PANK], “Omophagia,” Summer 2020
North American Review, “Prayer to Garlic,” Spring 2020
Tahoma Literary Review, “Renunciation,” Spring 2020
White Oak Kitchen and Cocktail’s Website, Winter 2020
Cumberland River Review, “Mushrooms in a Tennessee Graveyard,” Winter 2020
Green Briar Review, “A Farmers Market in GA,” “My Mother and My Father in the Kitchen,” and “Whetstone Sapphics,” Fall 2019
F(r)iction, “First Food,” Summer 2019
The Ekphrastic Review, “Varieties of Communion,” Summer 2019
Tinderbox Poetry Journal, “Sparagmos,” “Jesus as a Jaded Lover,” Summer 2019
Valparaiso Poetry Review, “Rapture,” Summer 2019
Miramar, “Corazon de Tierra,” Summer 2019
Nashville Review, “Saying Grace in a Time of Too Much,” Spring 2019
The Windhover, “Saying Grace Without Grace,” Spring 2019
Best New Poets, “High on the Hog,” Winter 2018
MUSE/A, “No Love Like Fugitives,” “Unabashed Sapphics on Hot and Heavy,” “The Amateur Cook and His Lover,” Summer 2018
Midwestern Gothic, “Last Shift at the Purple Turtle,” Winter 2018
Spoon River Poetry Review, “Whenever You Eat This,” “Bethesda,” Winter 2018
Negative Capability, “The Allegory of the Tree,” Summer 2018
Miramar, “An Oil Lamp for James Agee,” Winter 2017
Blue River, “Travel Notes: Mykonos,” Winter 2017
Profane, “Mariner,” “Elegy for Barbecue,” Summer 2016
San Pedro River Review, “American Palimpsest,” Spring 2016
Permafrost,“Jasmine Sends This Message to the Cypress Tree,” Winter 2016
Poet’s Billow, “Bon Vivants Hereafter,” Summer 2015
Into the Teeth of the Wind, “The Beautiful Game,” Summer 2015
Spillway, “To the Cashier at the Independent Video Store,” Spring 2015
Miramar, “For a Recently Deceased Pop Singer,” Summer 2014
Solo Novo, “Regulars, The Married Woman, And The Lives of Strangers,” Fall 2013
Mosaic, “A Sentimental Education,” and “Dear Roger,” Summer 2013
Juan Felipe Herrera’s LoWriter of the Week, “Threnody for a Broken Woman on the Sidewalk,”
and “Autobiographia Literaria,” Spring 2013
Anamesa, “Eating Pho While Felix Jumps from Space,” Spring 2013
Foothill: A Journal of Poetry, “Meeting La Matriarca,” Fall 2012
Crate Literary Magazine, “The Story My Lover Can’t Hear,” and “Pallbearing,” Summer 2012
Foothill: A Journal of Poetry, “Of Orange & Life,” Winter 2012
Verdad Magazine, “A Rubaiyat,” Winter 2011
The Chaffey Review Vol. III, “After We’ve Argued,” Winter 2009
PROSE PUBLICATIONS, CREATIVE AND CRITICAL
Gastronomica, “Drinking to the Wolf in a Time of Pandemic (or War or Peace),” Spring 2021
North American Review, “Risking Praise in Times of Crisis: A Few Notes on the Curtal Sonnet,” Winter 2021
The Chattahoochee Review, “The Presidential Ars Poetica for Our Times: A Review of Railsplitter, by Maurice Manning,” Winter 2021
Sweet, “In the Afterlife Every Night is Wine Wednesday,” Fall 2020
Cleaver, “To Make and Eat Time: Pork Rillettes in a Pandemic,” Fall 2020
The Rumpus, “Still Wouldst Thou Sing: Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale,” Fall 2020
Tupelo Quarterly, “Negroni (and Eros) the Bittersweet: A Fugue in Forty Tasting Notes,” Summer 2020
Duende, “A Recipe for Eating Memory,” Spring 2020
32 Poems, “How to Liken It: A.E. Stallings’ Labyrinthine Archive of Like,” Summer 2019
The Chattahoochee Review, “Review of Jericho Brown’s The New Testament,” Spring 2019
The Southeast Review, “A Recipe for Drinking Life to the Lees,” Spring 2019
The Chattahoochee Review, “Review of Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” Spring 2018
Unbroken, “Quitting,” Winter 2018
Miramar, “Review of Pablo Neruda’s Las Alturas de Macchu Picchu,”trans. David Young,
Spring 2017
Spry, “The Mortician’s Tale,” Fall 2016
5 Points, “Philip Levine: Beyond the Blue Collar,” Fall 2016
Trop Magazine, “Heavier Than Heaven: The Apocryphal Gospel of Jericho Brown,” Fall 2014
Pleiades: “Longing for a Portion of the Sky: Christopher Buckley’s Varieties of Religious
Experience,” Summer 2014
Spry, “Last Night with Aphrodite,” Summer 2013
Trop Magazine, “Crafting The Randomizer: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> (and Autobiography of
Red),” Summer 2013
Trop Magazine, “The Unpronounceable in Oli Hazzard’s Between Two Windows,” Fall 2012
World Literature Today, “Polina Barskova’s The Zoo In Winter,” Summer 2011
Web Del Sol Review of Books, “Christopher Buckley’s Modern History: Prose Poems…And
Beyond,” Winter 2010
AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 Finalist, Able Muse Book Award, judged by Mark Jarman
2021 Finalist, AWP’s Donald Hall Prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky
2020 Finalist, Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, judged by Karl Kirchwey
2020 Winner, Georgia Poetry Society’s Byron Herbert Reece Prize, judged by Jericho Brown
2020 Winner, White Oak Kitchen’s Prize for Southern Poetry, judged by David Smith
2020 Finalist, Brittingham and Felix Pollack Prize
2020 Finalist, Mid-American Review’s James Wright Prize
2020 Nomination, Pushcart Prize, Cumberland River Review
2020 Finalist, North American Review’s James Hearst Prize
2020 Finalist, Orison Book Prize
2019 Finalist, Colorado Book Prize, judged by Kiki Petrosino
2019 Finalist, Best of the Net: Poetry, by Nashville Review
2019 PhD Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of the South
2018 Best New Poets, Meridian Press, ed. Kyle Dargan
2018 Winner, F(r)iction Summer Poetry Contest, judged by Jericho Brown
2017 First Runner Up, Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editor’s Prize
2016 Nomination, Pushcart Prize, The Poet’s Billow
2015 Winner, The Poet’s Billow Pangaea Prize
INTERVIEWS/PODCAST APPEARANCES
The Poets’ Billow, Interview, “Pangea Prize Winner Interview,” Winter 2020
A Small Good Thing, Podcast, “Six Memorable Movies of the Decade with Greg Emilio,”
Winter 2020
A Small Good Thing, Podcast, “Roma: Beauty and the Hero Who Serves, a Film Review with
Greg Emilio,” Fall 2019
Lit & Bruised, Podcast: “MUSE/A Journal,” Guest Poet, October 2018
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Remaking Myths for Modern Chaos.” New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2020.
“No Sympathy for Hollywood: Representation and Screen Memories in Viet Than
Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.” South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, 2017.
“Pedagogy of the Generative Poetry Workshop.” South Atlantic Modern Languages
Association, 2016.
“Notions of Home in an Age of Exile: A Workshop.” New Voices Graduate Conference, 2018.
“Poetry of a Burning World: A Workshop.” New Voices Graduate Conference, 2017.
READINGS
Georgia Poetry Society, Contest Winners’ Reading, 25 July 2020
Java Vino Reading Series, with Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, 2 February 2020
Decatur Book Festival, College Poetry Day, Georgia State University, 6 August 2019
Sewanee Writers Conference, 26 July 2019
Decatur Book Festival, College Poetry Day, Georgia State University, 6 August 2018
New Voices Graduate Student Conference, Georgia State University, 15 January 2018
Decatur Book Festival, College Poetry Day, Georgia State University, 6 August 2017
New Voices Graduate Student Conference, Georgia State University, 13 January 2017
Tipple and Rose, Poetry Reading Series, 10 December 2016
University of California Riverside, Graduate Reading, 8 June 2013
Foothill Poetry Journal, Kingsley Tufts Award Reading, Claremont Graduate College, with
Timothy Donnelly, 12 October 2012
DEPARTAMENTAL/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Honor’s Project Advisor, Georgia Highlands College, 2020-2021.
Faculty Advisor, International University Bible Academy, Georgia State, 2019-2020.
GTA Peer Mentor for Dept of Lower Division Studies, Georgia State, 2017-2018.
Poetry Chair, New Voices Graduate Conference Committee, Georgia State, 2016-2018.
REFERENCES
Dr. Beth Gylys
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Georgia State University
bgylys@gsu.edu
404-944-2900
Josh Russell
Director, Creative Writing Program
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Georgia State University
josh@gsu.edu
404-413-5834
Dr. David Bottoms
Professor Emeritus
Georgia State University
dbottoms@gsu.edu
678-333-8704
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