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Angela Merta Brandt

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • M.F.A., creative writing, University of Minnesota
  • B.A., English, College of St. Catherine

Credentials

  • Professor, liberal arts, 2011–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Instructor, 1998–2000, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
    • Writing for Organization
    • Writing for the Arts – Composition
    • Freshman Seminar – Diane Arbus
    • Research Assistant to Professor Ray Gonzalez, 1998–1999
    • Assistant Editor, Luna Poetry Anthology, 1998–1999
    • Instructor, Intermediate Poetry Writing, Spring 1999
    • Instructor, Intermediate Poetry Writing, Winter 1999
    • Instructor, Beginning Creative Writing, Spring 1998
    • Research Assistant to Madelon Sprengnether, Winter 1998
  • Instructor, Introduction to Poetry Writing, Fall 1997
    Instructor, Beginning Creative Writing, Spring 1997
    Instructor, Beginning Creative Writing, Fall 1996, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  • Internship, Coffee House Press, Winter 1996, Minneapolis, MN
  • Editor, Ariston Student Literary Magazine, 1991–1992, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
  • Assistant Editor, Ariston Student Literary Magazine, 1990–1991, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Short-listing, Copper Canyon Press, 2016
  • Semi-finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Persea Books, 2016
  • Gesell Writers Fellowship at the Anderson Center, 1999
  • AWP Intro Journal Award Nomination, 1998
  • Ruth Lilly Poetry Contest Finalist, 1998
  • Artwords Contest, Winner, 1998
  • Gesell Poetry Prize, 1998
  • Loft Mentorship Finalist, 1997
  • Edelstein Keller Fellowship, 1997
  • Loft Mentorship, Honorable Mention, 1996

Publications and presentations

  • "The Generous Poetry of Jim Moore," American Literature Association, San Francisco, 2016
  • "The Poet John Engman; the Kafka of Minneapolis, the Charlie Chaplin of Hennepin Avenue," American Literature Association, Boston, 2015
  • "Teaching Landscape in Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River'; a Writing Paradigm," Hemingway Society Conference, Venice, 2014
  • "The Killing," The Nebraska Review, 2001
  • "The Body," The Louisiana Review, 2001
  • "The Figure and Sea," One Trick Pony, 2001
  • "The Knowledge," The Texas Observer, 1998
  • "Nadine in the Dark," The Southern Anthology, 1997