KATRINA PROW, phd

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, English

Texas Tech University (2017)

Major: Creative Writing, Fiction

Helen DeVitt Jones Fellow

TEACH Fellow

Dissertation: We Are Always at a Bar (novel)

Master of Fine Arts, English

California State University, Long Beach (2010)

Major: Creative Writing, Fiction

Thesis: Go Bang (short story collection)

Bachelor of Arts, English

California State University, Long Beach (2007)

Major: Creative Writing

PUBLICATIONS

“All That Junk,” March Danceness (2024)

“Roadmap: Listening to Fiona Apple in Santa Maria, California,” Off Assignment (2023)

“Notes on Endurance,” March Fadness (2023)

“Reverse Fuck,” an excerpt, 86 Logic (2022) *

“Half-Moon Teeth,” Boston Review (2022)

“Patent Pieces,” (series of five shorts) OWN Zine (2022)

“Stray,” Emerald City Literary Magazine (2022)

“January 2020,” Sledgehammer Lit (2021)

“No Sauce,” Taco Bell Quarterly (2021)

“You Know That Pussy Good,” decomP (2019)

"What Jeanie Won't Tell," The Journal (2017)

"Prep," Pithead Chapel (2017) ^+

"Not With a Bang," Redivider (2017)

“The Stars at Night Are Big and Bright,” Passages North (2017)

“Patent Pieces,” (series of three shorts) Nano Fiction (2016)

“Hands Come In From Every Direction,” Juked (2015)

“Speak Easy So We Can Hear You,” WhiskeyPaper (2015)

“Arnold Has The Blues.” scissors & spackle (2015)

“Sit Pretty,” CHEAP POP (2014)

“Other Than Holding,” Literary Orphans (2014)

“Prelude to Disease,” Passages North (2013)

“Making the Bed,” Pearl 44 (2010)

“Mutilation,” Pearl 43 (2009)

“Portrait of My Parents, 1980,” Spot Lit Mag (2009)

“Paper Mache,”RipRap 30 (2008)

“Fiber Optics,” RipRap 30 (2008)

* Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2022)

^ Nominated for Best Small Fictions (2018)

+ Nominated for Best of the Net (2017)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

“Behind the Essay,” Interview with Off Assignment (2023)

“Character Building Flashback,” Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom (2021)

“Family Story,” Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom (2021)

“Putting in Work,” Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom (2021)

Review of In the Not Quite Dark by Dana Johnson, Arcadia (2016)

Review of Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler, Arcadia (2016)

Review of Every Kiss A War by Leesa Cross-Smith, Arcadia (2015)

Review of Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston, Prime Number Magazine (2013)

Interview with Pam Houston, Prime Number Magazine (2013) *

* Selected for a "Best Of" print edition

AWARDS

Semi-Finalist, “Half-Moon Teeth,” Boston Review Aura Estrada Short Fiction Contest, judged by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (2021)

John Hiller Zobel Memorial Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers (2017)

Third Place, "Not With a Bang," Redivider Blurred Genre Contest, judged by Claudia Rankine (2017)

Finalist, “The Stars at Night Are Big and Bright,” Passages North Neutrino Short-Short Prize, judged by Lindsay Hunter (2016)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Texas Tech University (2016)

Outstanding Faculty Award, Texas Tech Lady Raiders (2016)

Graduate Fiction Award, Texas Associate of Creative Writing Teachers (2015)

Emerging Writer, Long Beach Festival of Authors (2010)

William T. Shadden Memorial Scholarship, CSULB (2009)

RESIDENCIES

The Corporation of Yaddo (2019)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2016)

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

Presenter, “Whiplash: Teaching Pandemic Literature During the Pandemic,” Modern Language Association (2023)

Writer, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Fiction Program (2017)

Moderator, “Women Write Los Angeles.” Associated Writing Programs (2016)

ART EXHIBITIONS

OWN: Original Womxn’s Narratives, Stage Presentation. Curated by Cal Poly Gender Equity Center, San Luis Obispo, CA (2022)

Shrill: An Exhibition of Works by Shrill Women. Curated by Victoria Marie Bee, Lubbock, TX (2017)

Patent Pending. Curated by Jon Whitfill, Lubbock, TX (2015)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE