KIERAN MUNDY
Honors, Awards, and Support:
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Awarded Whittaker Writing Fellowship for residency at Ragdale for December, 2025.
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Awarded Writing Residency at the Marble House Project for May, 2024.
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Selected as an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow, Winter, 2024.
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Tin House Summer Workshop in short fiction, Summer 2023.
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Residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Winter, 2023.
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Residency at Craigardan Summer, 2022.
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2022 Best of the Net Nomination for “The Way Other People Believe in Heaven.”
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Awarded Gulf Coast’s 2020 Bartheleme Prize for Short Prose judged by Jenny Offill for short story “Like Yourself.” Spring, 2021.
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Semi-finalist in the American Short(er) Fiction Contest for “As Human as Possible,” May, 2020.
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Awarded Artist’s Grant from The Vermont Studio Center for writing residency. 2020.
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Longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions for “Melon.” 2019.
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Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions for “Homonyms.” 2017.
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Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest for “Sign Language,” a short story, March/April, 2017.
Education:
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University of Oregon, Eugene, OR MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction, awarded June, 2019.
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The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH. BA in English Literature, awarded May, 2016. Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, English Departmental honors, Undergraduate thesis honors.
Teaching Experience:
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Fall 2108 – Spring 2019 Composition Instructor for WR121 and WR122
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR.
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Fall 2017— Spring 2018 Fiction Instructor for the Kidd Writing Workshops
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR.