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Christopher Bundy

Writing professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Georgia State University
  • M.F.A., creative writing, Emerson College
  • B.A., English, Furman University

Credentials

Teaching

  • Professor, writing, 2009–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
  • Fellow, Summer 2009 and Summer 2016, The Hambidge Center, Rabun, GA
  • Instructor, English, 2009, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, English, 2003–2009, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  • Instructor, English, 1996–1997, Maebashi Institute of Foreign Languages, Maebashi, Japan
  • Instructor, English, 1991–1994, Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, Maebashi, Japan

Professional

  • Editor, 2006–2008, New South, Georgia State University’s Journal of Art and Literature, Atlanta, GA
  • Assistant Fiction Editor, 2005–2006, Five Points, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  • Writer/ Editor, 2003–2005, Office of the Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  • Editor/ Technical Writer/ Instructional Designer, 1998–2003, eLearning Group, Bellsouth Telecommunications
  • Prose Reader, 1994, The Beacon Street Review, Emerson College, Boston, MA
  • Editor, 1992–1993, The Japan Experience, Maebashi, Japan
  • Writer, 1985–1988, The Paladin, Furman University, Greenville, SC

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Nominated for 2015 Pushcart Prize, “What I Learned from a Cockfighter,” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Spring 2014
  • Nominated for 2012 Pushcart Prize, “Deep Blue Sea,” Atticus Review, August 2011
  • Distinguished Mystery Story of 2009 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 for “For the Love of Mary Hooks,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 2009
  • The Story South Million Writers Award: Notable Stories of 2008
  • Winner, Atlanta Magazine Short Story Contest, 2008
  • Winner, Agnes Scott College Annual Writer's Festival Literary Competition, 2007
  • Distinguished Service Award, Georgia State University, 2008
  • Distinguished Service Award, Georgia State University, 2007
  • Finalist, Agnes Scott College Annual Writer's Festival Literary Competition, Spring 2006
  • First Runner-up, The 2005 Writers Exchange Contest for Fiction, Sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine, 2005
  • Winner, Agnes Scott College Annual Writer's Festival Literary Competition, Spring 2005
  • Finalist, Agnes Scott College Annual Writer's Festival Literary Competition, 2004
  • Finalist, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Thomas Dunne Novel Competition, 2002
  • Winner, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train Stories, 2000

Organizations

  • The Association of Writers & Writing Programs

Publications and presentations

Books

  • Baby, You’re a Rich Man, C&R Press, 2013.

Short Stories

  • “80,000,000,” Glimmer Train, 2017
  • “Collapse,” Postcard Shorts, April 2014
  • “Danny Dove’s Guide to Method Acting,” Atticus Review, March 2014
  • “Men and Women of the Jury,” J Journal, Fall 2013
  • “Living Is Easy,” Necessary Fiction, Aug. 2013
  • “A Very Wiggly Tooth,” Puerto del Sol, Winter 2012
  • “Spatial Disorientation,” Glimmer Train, Spring 2012
  • “Deep Blue Sea,” Atticus Review, Aug. 2011
  • “50 Views of the Man Who Lives Across the Street, or Lime, Sand, and Water,” DIAGRAM, Issue 10.6/Dec. 2010
  • “I Wanna Be Your Fan,” Storyglossia, Issue 36, Oct. 2009
  • “For the Love of Mary Hooks,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 2009
  • “The Books of Austen and Bronte,” Dots on a Map: Stories from Small Towns, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, Ed. Katey Schultz, May 2009
  • “Soon Will Be the Breath of Day,” XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentric Lives of Women, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, Ed. S. Craig Renfroe, Jr., May 2009
  • “You Can Have It All,” Atlanta Magazine, Dec. 2008
  • “Earthrise,” Smokelong Quarterly, Issue 23, Dec. 2008
  • “Big in Japan: The Short Story,” Thuglit, Issue 28, Oct./Nov. 2008
  • “Walking on the Moon,” Glimmer Train Stories, Spring 2008
  • “Under the Sea,” The Dos Passos Review, Fall 2007
  • “Backtalk, or a Slender Twenty-eight,” The Pedestal Magazine, Aug. 2007
  • “A Safe Place, or When Todd the Security Guard Met His Tuesday Weld,” The News & Observer Sunday Reader, April 2007
  • “When the Water Rose,” The News & Observer Sunday Reader, Feb. 2005
  • “El Mirador,” Creative Loafing, Jan. 2005
  • “The Farthest They'd Ever Been,” The News & Observer Sunday Reader, March 2005
  • “One Hundred Paper Cranes,” Creative Loafing, Jan. 2004
  • “Behaving Ourselves,” Creative Loafing, Jan. 2003
  • “Morning Prayers,” Glimmer Train Stories, Fall 2003
  • “In Which Sadie Runs off to India to Find Out What the Big Deal Is” Creative Loafing, Jan. 2002
  • “Smells Like Rain,” Glimmer Train Stories, Fall 2000
  • “Me & Val, Henri & Pascal,” The Atlanta Press, Nov. 1998
  • “El Mirador,” Alien Magazine, Tokyo, Aug./Sept. 1997
  • “One Hundred Paper Cranes.” Alien Magazine, Tokyo, April 1997
  • “Looking for Escher’s Angels,” The Beacon Street Review, Fall 1994