DYLAN NICE Iowa City, IA

DYLAN NICE

Iowa City, IA 52245

dylan-nice@uiowa.edu

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University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA MFA, Nonfiction, 2011

Teaching Fellow

University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, PA BA, English Writing, 2008

Summa cum laude

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA

 Fall 2014 – Spring 2015

 Designed and taught “Readings in Nonfiction,” a discussion-based course for Nonfiction Writing Program Graduate MFA students which focuses on contemporary and canonical prose stylists.

 Designed and taught “Creative Writing Track: Influence and the Essay,” a discussion-based course for creative writing majors focusing on the history and contemporary state of literary nonfiction, including new journalism, personal essay, lyric essay, and multimodal forms of the essay. Students produce their own creative work which is discussed by their peers in a workshop setting.

 Designed and taught “Personal Writing,” a discussion-based course for creative writing majors and non-majors focusing the art of the personal essay. Students read a survey of 20th century and contemporary literary nonfiction, memoirs, and lyric essays and submitted their own personal writing for discussion in a workshop setting.

Literature Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg Greensburg, PA

 Fall 2013 – Spring 2014

 Designed and taught “Reading Poetry,” a discussion-based course for first-semester freshmen which focuses on ways of analyzing classic anthologized poems. Students learn to develop thesis-driven critical papers which identify textual nuance and craft an interpretative argument grounded in close reading.

 Designed and am currently teaching “Introduction to Creative Nonfiction,” a discussion-based course for writing majors and non-majors which focuses on the cannon and contemporary state of literary nonfiction, including new journalism, personal essay, lyric essay, and multimodal forms of the essay. Students produce their own creative work which is discussed by their peers in a workshop setting.

Creative Writing Instructor, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA

Fall 2011 – Spring 2013

 Designed and taught four undergraduate creative writing courses for the university’s Certificate in Writing program, including “Essay and the City,” an introductory course on crafting essays about place, “Flash Fiction,” a course that focuses on concise, brief, and evocative prose, and “The Situation and the

Story” a fiction and personal essay writing studio. Students draft and revise creative works, participate in workshop discussions about their classmates’ writing, and prepare manuscripts for publication in national literary magazines.

Thesis Board Reader, Chatham University’s Creative Writing MFA Program Pittsburgh, PA  Fall 2012 – Spring 2013 – Fall 2013—Spring 2014

 Designed and led Mentorship I and Mentorship II, a remote course focusing on one student and consisting of an 8 to 10 book reading list, a critical paper, and regular submission and critique of new creative work.

 Read and critique MFA in fiction candidates’ creative dissertations for completion of their degree. Graduate Nonfiction Instructor, Southern New Hampshire University

Online Fall 2013 – Spring 2014

 Administer Nonfiction Thesis Completion Course via the Blackboard Learning System. Duties include moderation of the discussion boards, approval of student-generated course reading lists, posting weekly announcements, grading critical and creative work, and responding to all student correspondence within 24 hours,

The Examined Life Conference: Writing, Humanities, and the Art of Medicine Iowa City, IA  April 2013

 Designed and led “Get In and Get Out,” a six-hour flash fiction workshop designed to introduce

members of the medical community to the principals of the flash essay and story and then critique in-class generated work.

Continuing Education Instructor, Lifetime Enrichment Adult Program, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA  Summer 2012 – Fall 2012 – Spring 2013

 Developed and led workshops and seminars for extended learning students, typically age 55 and above, including “The American Short Story” and “The Personal Essay,” both of which explore the history and boundary of form through guided readings, discussion of craft, and creative writing workshops.

Nonfiction Writing and Literature Instructor, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA  Fall 2008 – Spring 2011

 Designed and taught “Introduction to Creative Nonfiction” and “Intermediate Nonfiction Writing,” two advanced nonfiction workshops that emphasize advanced discussion of form through discussion of canonical essays and student generated work.

 Designed and led “Interpretation of Literature,” a discussion-based course for first-semester freshmen which focuses on ways of analyzing classic anthologized short stories, poems, essays and plays. Students learn to develop thesis-driven critical papers which identify textual nuance and craft an interpretative argument grounded in close reading.

Visiting Writer, Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids, IA  Spring 2012

 Discussed my essay, “Teeth,” published in Brevity magazine, and answered student questions concerning writing, publishing, and teaching.

Pittsburgh, PA  Fall 2007 – Spring 2008

 Instructed staff writers in AP style, story format, and structure, made assignments, edited copy with staff writers.

Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA  Fall 2007

 Assisted Professor Richard Blevins for the entirety of the semester-long course.

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Fellow, MacDowell Colony, May-July 2013

Recipient, Travel Grant Award, Word Riot Press, May 2013

Book of the Week selection for Other Kinds, Fiction Writers’ Review, February 2013 Judge, Hobart Magazine’s inaugural Buffalo Prize for Fiction, 2012

Offered Admission, University of Wyoming’s MFA in Fiction, 2012 Recipient, Pushcart Prize Nomination, Nominated by Jen Percy, 2012 Recipient, Pushcart Prize Nomination, Brevity, 2011

Recipient, Pushcart Prize Nomination, Quick Fiction, 2009

Recipient, Scott Turow Fiction Prize, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 2008 Recipient, Joan Didion Nonfiction Prize, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 2007

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Other Kinds, short stories, Short Flight/Long Drive Books, Fall 2012

Book of Uncommon Prayer, contributor, forthcoming

Essays

“Mushroom Boys,” The Indiana Review, Summer 2013 “Truth in Nonfiction,” The Rumpus, Summer 2012 “Ashes,” Fourth Genre, Spring 2012

“Teeth,” Brevity, Issue 35

“The Big Water,” MAKE Magazine, Issue 11 “The Plan Tonight,” NOON Annual, Issue 10

Fiction

“She Likes You,” NOON Annual, Issue 14 “Untitled Flash” Altered Scale Quarterly, Issue 2 “Flat Land,” The Collagist, Issue 39

“Thoughts and Feelings at Twenty-Five,” NOON Annual, Issue 13 “Every Blessing,” NOON Annual, Issue 13

“Watery Out to Its End,” NOON Annual, Issue 13 “The Mountain Town,” NOON Annual, Issue 12 “A Short Essay on the War,” NOON Annual, Issue 12

“It’s Never A Little While,” NOON Annual, Issue 11 “Ice Floe,” NOON Annual, Issue 10

“Other Kinds,” NOON Annual, Issue 9

“Thin Enough to Break,” NOON Annual, Issue 9

“The Way It Smelled,” Another Chicago Magazine, Issue 52 “Wet Leaves,” Hobart, Issue 12

“There’s Bugs,” Quick Fiction, Issue 18 “Their Health,” Quick Fiction, Issue 15 “Darker In Places,” Unsaid, Issue 4 “The Same Direction,” Gigantic, Issue 2 “We’ll Both Feel Better,” Dewclaw, Issue 2

“The Silence Itself,” Buffalo Art Voice, Summer 2010 “Some Distance,” Decomp, Winter 2009

“5/24/2010,” The Wag’s Revue, Issue 6

Interviews

With German cartographer and essayist Judith Schalansky, EssayPrize.Org, April 2012 With novelist Sam Lipsyte, The Wag’s Revue, Issue 9, Spring 2011

With fiction writer Gary Lutz, The Wag’s Revue, Issue 6, Fall 2010

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Guest Editor, Hobart Magazine, Web Edition October 2011

 Read and evaluated submissions and worked one-on-one with the author throughout the editorial process.

Editor-in-Chief, Insider, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Fall 2007 – Spring 2008

 Oversaw student staff, led editorial meetings, and edited articles for publication Columnist, The Pitt Chronicle, University of Pittsburgh

Fall 2006

 Contributed a weekly calendar about campus current events

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KRUI Radio’s The Lit Show with Ben Mauk, Fall 2012

 Discussed fiction debut collection Other Kinds, fiction writing, and teaching, on air with host Ben Mauk.

KRUI Radio’s The Lit Show with Ben Mauk, Spring 2012

 Discussed fiction and fiction writing on air with host Ben Mauk and authors Michael Martone, Zachary Tyler Vickers, and Rachel Yoder.

 Led two three-hour discussion of undergraduate student essays during scheduled absence in March 2012.

Nonfiction Writing Program Director Robin Hemley’s Advanced Fiction Workshop, Spring 2012-2103

 Led two three-hour discussion of undergraduate student fiction during scheduled absence in March and April 2012 and February 2013.

Eula Biss Public Q and A, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Fall 2011, Iowa City, IA

 Led a one-hour Q-and-A session with essayist Eula Biss in regard to her National Critics Circle award-winning book Notes from No Man’s Land for a student and public audience at Prairie Lights Bookstore in November 2011.

University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Sections, Fall 2010

 Presented my essay, “The Plan Tonight,” to undergraduate writing students and discussed approaches to writing about the quotidian at the invitation of the section instructor, Annie Nilsson, and led workshop of two student essays in the absence of the regular course instructor, Rachel Yoder.

Pitt-Greensburg Writers’ Festival, Spring 2012

 Presented short fiction with notable alumni in Greensburg NonfictioNow: Addicted to Narrative Panel, Spring 2011

Presented narrative essays with Christ Offut, Ryan Van Meter, and Andre Perry at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City, IA

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KGB, 11/13 in New York, NY

Backspace Coffeehouse, 3/12 in Portland, OR Naked City Brewery, 3/12 in Seattle, WA

Franklin Park Reading Series, 2/13 in Brooklyn, NY Awesome Books, 12/12 in Pittsburgh, PA

Three Tent Reading Series, 11/12 in Washington, DC Prairie Lights Book Store, 11/12 in Iowa City, IA Book Cellar, 11/12 in Chicago, IL

MAKE Magazine Launch Reading, 10/11 in Rational Park, Chicago, IL NOON Launch Reading, 4/10 at the Center for Fiction in Manhattan, NY Anthology Reading Series, 10/11, 5/09, and 9/08 in Iowa City, IA

Iowa City Book Festival, 6/10 at T-Spoon’s Coffee Shop in Iowa City, IA AWP Dewclaw Reading, 4/10 in Denver

Quickies Reading Series, 9/10 in Iowa City and 11/10 in Chicago Nonfiction Reading Series: Speakeasy, 10/11 and 11/10 in Iowa City Literary Death Match, 5/10 in Iowa City

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Guest Volunteer Youth Writing Instructor, Iowa City United Action for Youth, January 2010

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Personal Essays/Memoir Short Stories Flash Prose

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John D’Agata, Professor, Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa 308 English-Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242. (319) 335-0700, john-philip-dagata@uiowa.edu.

Honor Moore, Professor, New School for Graduate Studies, Graduate Writing Program, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY, 10011. (917) 613-5160, honor@honormoore.com.

Daniel Khalastchi, Director, Certificate in Writing Program, University of Iowa 240 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242. (319) 335-2611, daniel-khalastchi@uiowa.edu.