Literary / academiaWelcome to the Writing portion of the tri-solar orbit of my life.
Writing has helped untangle this time on Earth. Reading has made me a better witness to myself, others, and the beyond-human world. Editing has made me a better listener. In my literary life, I mostly write what I call "Essay," others call "Lyric Essay," and others call "Poetry." I'm a Songwriter. I dabble in Fiction. I identify as genre-fluid. Writing, for me, is the intersection of play and prayer. I teach Creative Writing for College, Graduate-level, Community, and Hobbiest writers. In my role as Senior Lecturer at Antioch University, I teach Creative Writing and Creativity Research Studies in the Undergraduate Studies program, and have taught as adjunct faculty in the MFA program. I have also served as faculty at the University of Wisconsin Summer Music Clinic and at the International Women's Writing Guild conference. I earned my MFA in Creative Writing at Antioch University, a BA in Psychology at Brandeis University, and post-Bachelors Diploma in Clarinet and Songwriting from Berklee College of Music. While in the Antioch MFA program, I focused primarily on Creative Non-Fiction, and secondarily on Literary Translation (with Dan Bellm) and Fiction (with Peter Nichols and Steve Heller). My CNF mentors were numerous, generous, life-changing, and kind. Thank you, Hope Edelman, Brad Kessler, Bernadette Murphy, Peter Selgin, Sharman Apt Russell, and Christine Hale. While in the MFA program, I served as Editor-in-Chief for three issues of Lunch Ticket, Antioch's MFA-published literary magazine, and previously as section editor in several genres; was two-time winner of the Antioch University Library Research Prize for my work on the Wicked Stepmother narrative and on the intersection of Lyric Essay, Feminist Pedagogy, and Post-Modernism; and completed a post-MFA Certificate in Creative Writing Pedagogy with a Teaching Assistantship to Aimee Bender at USC and Barbara Abercrombie at the UCLA Extension School. My literary essays and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets Anthology, and published as the cover story in Lilith Magazine, and in Moment Magazine, Lit Hub, Brevity, Matador Review, The Poet's Billow, Accolades Anthology (Women Who Submit), Under the Gum Tree, Jet Fuel Review, From Sac, Gulf Stream, Role/Reboot, Duotrope, Roland Magazine, Antioch Alumni Magazine, The Review Review, among others. A highlight in my writing life continues to be the four editorial letters that I wrote during my tenure at Lunch Ticket - Issue 8, Issue 9, Issue 10, Lunch Ticket Special - and my recent writing during and after a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Ongoing is my work on a memoir based around the question of what it means to be a mother, and more manageable things like essays and songs. |
Inquiries: arielle @ ariellesilver dot com
CV available upon request. |
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