​Ellen Boyette
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EDUCATION
2025. Non-Matriculating, Philosophy, Yale University
2024 PhD Coursework, English and Creative Writing, Concentration in Film Studies, University of Georgia
2019 MFA Poetry, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Teaching Writing Fellow, Alberta Kelley Fellow
2017 BA English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Magna Cum Laude. Distinction in English. Highest Honors in Creative Writing
2015 Sewanee: University of the South, General Education
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2025. Instructor, Disfiguring Autobiography, Writing Workshops
2025. Instructor, A Perusable Feast, Iowa Young Writers Studio
2024 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Creative Writing, University of Georgia
2024. Instructor, A Perusable Feast, Iowa Young Writers' Studio
2022-2024 Instructor, First Year Writing, University of Georgia
2021 Instructor, Philosophy, NC Governor's School East
2019 . Instructor, Poetry Writing, Department of Creative Writing, University of Iowa
2018 Instructor, Undergraduate Poetry Workshop, Department of Creative Writing, University of Iowa
2018 Instructor, General Education- Literature (Honors Program), Department of English, University of Iowa
2017 Instructor, General Education- Literature, Department of English, University of Iowa
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Survey of the Poetic Coquette: 1500 to Present
Disfiguring Autobiography: Writing Into, Around, and Out of Yourself
Psychic Data and Technological Obsession in Contemporary Literature
A Perusable Feast: Introduction to Craft and Genre Bending
The Art of Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to Internet Prowess
The Architecture of Anxiety: Creative Scaffolding in Creative Writing
Hypnotic Texts
Precious Shreds: Poetry and Collage
Obsession and Possession in the Modern American Landscape
Hybrid and Experimental Literature
Whereof I Cannot Speak: Introduction to Philosophy
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EDITIORIAL POSITIONS
2024 Founder and Editor in Chief, CAPGRAS
2020 Editorial Assistant, Nonfiction, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
2019 Editorial Assistant and Social Media Manager at Rescue Press
2019 Editorial Assistant, Nonfiction, Iowa Review
2017- 2019 Editorial Assistant, Poetry, Iowa Review
2014- 2015 Layout Editor of The Mountain Goat
2012- 2013 Poetry Editorial Staff of Cellar Door
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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2025 “Abjection as Ecstasy” panel at New Orleans Poetry Festival
2025 “Disjunction and Contradiction” panel at New Orleans Poetry Festival
2019-2024 Admissions assistant and counselor, Iowa Young Writers Studio
2019 “Wall Sized Fish” A play with Bernadette Meyer, Nora Claire Miller, Stephen, Ira, Peter Myers
2019 International Writing Program admissions committee and counselor
2014-2015 Admissions committee and counselor, Sewanee Young Writers Program
AWARDS/ HONORS
2024. A Year in Reading feature, Nitrous or My Velvet Knife, Annulet Editions
2024. Finalist for Open Reading Period at Inside the Castle
2023 Recipient of an Action Fokus Feature (Action Books)
2021 Puschcart Prize Nomination for "I A Mere Spade" by Afternoon Visitor
2021 Finalist for the CSU Lighthouse Series Poetry Book Prize, judged by Shane McCrae
2019 Nomination for Best of the Net for "Evangeline" by pulpmouth
2019 Finalist for Slope Editions 2019 Book Prize, judged by Solmaz Sharif
2019 Alberta Kelley Fellowship at The Iowa Writers' Workshop
2018 Teaching-Writing Fellow at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop
2017 Ann Burrus Williams Academy of American Poets College Prize
2017 Wanda Chappell Random House Scholarship
2017 University of North Carolina Honors Thesis in Poetry
2016 University of North Carolina Blanche Armfield Prize for Poetry
2015 University of the South Walter E. Dakin Scholarship for Creative Writing
2012 Beverly Russell Award for Creative Writing
2009 Carl Sandburg Poetry Contest’s People’s Choice Award for “Man of Glory”
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FULL LENGTH BOOK PUBLICATIONS
2025. Local Virgin of Impression at Dead Mall Press (forthcoming)
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CHAPBOOK PUBLICATIONS
2024 Nitrous or My Velvet Knife at Secret Restaurant Press
2022 Cuffing Season at The Creative Writing Department
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
2025. [She says Emily Dickinson mails me] at Rampage Party Press (broadside)
2025. Evangeline (32-60) at mercury firs
2025. Un/Raveled at Send Me Press
2025. Fascicle (56) at Dusie, The Tuesday Poem
2025. Verycose at Creative Writing Department
2025. Happy Hollow at Creative Writing Department
2025. 1.17 at Creative Writing Department
2025. I Wish I Were Snow at Creative Writing Department
2024 [Not one to feel drained in...] at Antiphony
2024. Evil Paradise at River Styx
2024. Goblin Advice at River Styx
2024. Chant Romantique at River Styx
2024. Keats Would Freak at River Styx
2024 In the Brouhaha at River Styx
2024. Gutter Lover at COVER
2023 Anti/Dote (1-3) at Grotto
2023. Study of a Bull at Tyger Quarterly
2023. Points of Diminishing Return at Tyger Quarterly
2023. Clone Song at Annulet
2023. Neck Minus Puncture at Annulet
2023. [permitted by shadow we follow curved walls...] at Guesthouse
2023 [unbroken horses administer in me...] at Guesthouse
2023. [this to which i adhere...] at Guesthouse
2022. Danse Macabre at The Brooklyn Review
2021. "Disheveling the Solid Air...A Review of Justin Wymer's DEED" at EcoTheo
2021 I A Mere Spade at Afternoon Visitor
2021 Hand In A Glass at Afternoon Visitor
2021 Answer Me Does the Crow and Likens at Blazing Stadium
2021 I Hiss Hearing the Fade at Blazing Stadium
2021 Five of Pentacles at Blazing Stadium
2020 [In this one macabre is pronounced...] at jubilat
2020 [In this one I have made for the function...] at jubilat
2020 [In this one the word blue remained...] at jubilat
2020 [In this one I play my voice...] at jubilat
2020 [In this one the prognosis was clamorous...] at jubilat
2020 Review of Annelyse Gelman and Jason Grier's About Repulsion EP in Rain Taxi
2019 [In this one the townspeople in their strokable...] at The Columbia Review
2019 [In this one of a severed twig...] in The Columbia Review
2019 [In this one pistachios fall from my mouth...] at Denver Quarterly
2019 Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark at The Iowa Review
2019 In This One Evangeline (1-31) at Pulpmouth
2019 [In this one the nurse takes my height...] at Bennington Review
2019 [In this one the obituary is a necklace...] at Ninth Letter
2019 [In this one the young men say the translucent...] at Prelude
2019 [In this one the derision is milk...] at Prelude
2019 [ In this one lasik eye surgery is considered...] at Prelude
2018 [In this one the duvet is woven with gelatin...] at New Delta Review
2018 Oregon Trail (1992) Anthologized by Poetry Daily
2018 Still Life with Holofernes at Cover Mag
2018 Interview with Amanda Nadelberg at The Iowa Review
2018 Oregon Trail (1992) at Flag + Void
2018 Small Talk at TAGVVERK
2018 Double Take at TAGVVERK
2018 Dilated at TAGVVERK
2018 Self Portrait as Glitched Sky at TAGVVERK
2018 Interviewed by Bella Volfson at KRUI Online
2017 Reverse Evolution of Various Non-Mammals at Leveler
2017 Whelm at poets.org
2017 Sonar at Miscellany
2017 Reverse Calenture at Miscellany
2017 How to Dig While Walking Up a Hill at Cellar Door
2016 Intravenous Fly Trap at HHIVE
2016 Uncycle at Cellar Door
2016 Helvetica at THE WHALE
2016 <Icon>ography at THE WHALE
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