Teresa Carmody
- Assistant Professor
- Writer's Workshop
Additional Information
Biography
Teresa Carmody’s writing includes fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. She is the author of The Reconception of Marie (2020), Maison Femme: a fiction (2015), Requiem (2005), and A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others, a collection of autofictions forthcoming in 2024. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Water-Stone Review, Autofocus Lit, Burrow Review, LitHub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Collagist, WHR, and more.
Carmody is co-founding editor of Les Figues Press, now an imprint of punctum books. She is the co-editor of I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, and trenchart monographs: hurry up please its time. At Les Figues, Carmody worked with writers and artists on a wide range of projects, from developmental editing and manuscript design, to community collaborations and site-specific installations. More recently, she has collaborated with textile artist Madison Creech on DeLand, a viewmaster book, and they are currently working on a children’s book.
She has taught fiction, creative nonfiction, and literature at California Institute of the Arts, UC San Diego, Stetson University (where she also directed the low-residency MFA of the Americas program), and University of Denver.
Research and Creative Activity Interests
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Autofiction / Autotheory
Writing in the Expanded Field
Writing and the Archive
Hybrid & Cross-Genre Writing
Queer Literature
Feminist Literature
Education
Ph.D., English and Creative Writing, University of Denver
MFA, Creative Writing - Creative Nonfiction, Antioch University
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies – Cultural Anthropology, Evergreen State College
Additional Information
Biography
Teresa Carmody’s writing includes fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. She is the author of The Reconception of Marie (2020), Maison Femme: a fiction (2015), Requiem (2005), and A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others, a collection of autofictions forthcoming in 2024. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Water-Stone Review, Autofocus Lit, Burrow Review, LitHub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Collagist, WHR, and more.
Carmody is co-founding editor of Les Figues Press, now an imprint of punctum books. She is the co-editor of I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, and trenchart monographs: hurry up please its time. At Les Figues, Carmody worked with writers and artists on a wide range of projects, from developmental editing and manuscript design, to community collaborations and site-specific installations. More recently, she has collaborated with textile artist Madison Creech on DeLand, a viewmaster book, and they are currently working on a children’s book.
She has taught fiction, creative nonfiction, and literature at California Institute of the Arts, UC San Diego, Stetson University (where she also directed the low-residency MFA of the Americas program), and University of Denver.
Research and Creative Activity Interests
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Autofiction / Autotheory
Writing in the Expanded Field
Writing and the Archive
Hybrid & Cross-Genre Writing
Queer Literature
Feminist Literature
Education
Ph.D., English and Creative Writing, University of Denver
MFA, Creative Writing - Creative Nonfiction, Antioch University
BA, Interdisciplinary Studies – Cultural Anthropology, Evergreen State College