Education:
* MFA in creative writing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2005
* MA in English and creative writing, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, 2001
* BA in English, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, 1999
Honors:
* Honorable Mention, Loft-Jerome Emerging Writers Grant, Summer 2016
* Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Grant, Spring 2016
* Finalist, Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open, Winter 2014
* Finalist, Mary C. Mohr Editor’s Award, Southern Indiana Review, January 2014
* Finalist, Glimmer Train Stories Fiction Open, Summer 2013
* Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant, July 2012
* 2nd-year Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Oct. 2010-May 2011
* Nomination by Cerise Press for Best American Short Stories, December 2009
* Semi-finalist, Iowa Short Fiction Awards, December 2008
* Nomination for Pushcart Prize, by The Emprise Review, December 2008
* Semi-finalist, Black River Chapbook Competition, Black Lawrence Press, Spring 2008
* Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, Oct. 2007-May 2008
* Nomination for Pushcart Prize, by Glimmer Train Stories, November 2007
* Loft/McKnight Fellowship, fiction, Minneapolis, MN, May 2007-May 2008
* Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2007
* First place in Glimmer Train Stories Summer Fiction Open, 2006
* Bush Artist Fellowship in fiction, Archibald Bush Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
* Loft Mentorship Series, Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2004-2005
* Nomination, Best New American Voices, Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
* Gesell Award for fiction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2003 & 2005
* Gesell Award Honorable Mention, poetry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2003
* Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, 2001
* Andrew James Purdy Prize for short fiction, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, 2001
* The John Engman Literary Prize, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, 1996, 1998
Selected Publications, Public Presentations of Work, & Community Work:
* Crocus Hill Ghost Story, a performance project based on my new short story "Crocus Hill," in collaboration with composer/performer Julie Johnson, actor/director D.J. Mendel, and the St. Paul-MN new music ensemble Zeitgeist.
*Urban Legends and Whodunits series for Full Tilt Press, to be released fall 2017 under the name C.M. Johnson
* Writer/Collaborator on Scenes from Crocus Hill, with Julie Johnson,Zeitgeist Composer Workshop Showcase, June 7-June 11, 2014
* Dramaturg, Aaron Gabriel’s The End of September, Theater Latte Da’s NEXT: New Musicals in the Making, April 21-May 4, 2014
* Volunteer facilitator, Minnesota Book Awards, Creative Nonfiction category, January 2014
* Review of The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman, Provincetown Arts, Summer 2011
* Excerpt from Winter’s Charm, a novel, in Cerise Press, November 2009
* Chapbook of poems, Fun & Games, with Finishing Line Press, July 2009
* Volunteer in Fringe Theater Festival, Minneapolis, MN, August 2008
* Volunteer in voter education project for Minnesota’s “Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment,” 2008
* Member of Provincetown Players Playwriting Lab, Provincetown, MA, October 2007-May 2008
* Fiction in New South, Fall/winter 2008
* Fiction in The Emprise Review, November 2008
* Fiction in Puerto Del Sol, Summer 2008
* Poetry review in Pleiades (Spring 2008)
* Reading at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, December 8, 2007
* Staged reading of a play, Act I of "Who Wears a Gold Ring," at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, November 2007
* Play in Phantasmagoria (spring/summer issue, 2007)
* Reading at the Celebrate Fiction Series, The Happy Gnome, St. Paul, March 2007
* Fiction in Glimmer Train Stories (August 2007)
* Reading at the Loft Literary Center, Loft Mentor Series Program, Minneapolis, October 2004
* Poetry in The Rio Grande Review, 2003
* Fiction in Nidus, 2003
* Fiction in Claire, 2003
* Fiction in Touchstone, 2003
* Fiction in Pif, 2002
* Book reviews in The Hollins Critic, 2000, 2001
* Nonfiction in The Minnesota Women’s Press, 2000
* Theater reviews in Siren, 2000
* Poetry in Gypsy Cab, 1996
* Fiction in Dust and Fire, 1995
Bibliography:
* Profile & interview in Grist, The Journal For Writers, “Emerging Writers” Series, 2011
* “Close to the Bone,” profile by Sue Harrison for Provincetown Banner, December 6, 2007
Selected Professional Writing Experience:
* Literary biography, Tess Gallagher, American Writers Supplement Volume XXIV, 2012-2013
* Literary biography, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, American Writers Supplement Volume XXIII, 2011-2012
* Fiction reader/editor, Our Stories, online literary magazine, fall 2009-present
* Grant-writing for private clients, Minneapolis, MN, September 2008-present
* Publicity for musicians, June 2008-present
* Manuscript critiques for private clients, online work, August 2008-present
* Critical biographies of poets for the Greenwood Poetry Encyclopedia, 2004
* Program notes for music ensembles, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, 1998-2000
* Collaborator with composer Aaron Gabriel on song cycle, 1999-2000
Selected Teaching & Adjudication:
* Instructor, English 321 (Fiction Two), Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2014
* Teaching artist,Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN, winter 2012
* First round judge, Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Sarabande Books, winter 2012
* Fiction jury, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, spring 2011
* Instructor of composition class, Augsburg College, spring 2009
* Judge for National Scholastic Writing Awards, MCTC, January 2009
* Instructor in creative writing, International Music Camp, June 22-28, 2008
* Instructor of Intro to Fiction, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, fall 2004
* Writing mentor, SASE Wings Young Authors Program for youth, summer-fall 2004
* Instructor of Intro to Poetry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, spring 2004
* Instructor of Intro to Creative Writing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, fall 2002
* Judge for National PTA Reflections Program in Roanoke, VA, 2000-2001