University of Redlands
Contemporary Poetry
Poetry and Painting
Interdisciplinary Visual/Written Forms
Eastern European and Greek Poetry
Visual Art
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College-Asheville, NC
B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University- Richmond, VA
Joy Manesiotis is the author of They Sing to Her Bones, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Individual poems and essays have appeared in many literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Poetry International, as well as in translation, in the Romanian journal, Scrisul Romanesc. Recently, she has staged A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre—drawn from a book-length hybrid manuscript and comprised of a Speaker and Greek Chorus—at international festivals and universities in the U.S. and Europe. Manesiotis has received fellowships and residencies from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Graves Award, and Ragdale Foundation and her poems were dropped over Nicosia, Cyprus as part of Spring Poetry Rain, an international cultural event to help foster peace in the last divided city in Europe. She is the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing. More information at joymanesiotis.com
MFA, Poetry, Warren Wilson College, 1986
BFA, Sculpture (Honors), Virginia Commonwealth University, 1976
Freelance Film Editor, Boston, MA and New York, NY
Credits include:
"NOVA," WGBH-TV (PBS)
"Frontline," WGBH-TV
"Vietnam: A Television History," WGBH-TV (PBS)
"The Good Fight" (funded by NEH; first prize at American Film Festival and National Educational Film Festival)
Workshops
Poetry Workshop I
Poetry Workshop II
Poetry Workshop III
Advanced Creative Writing/Literary Seminars
The Page, and Beyond
Image/Image
The Last Avant Garde: The New York School of Poets and Painters
Poetry of Exile
Poetry of Necessity
Poetry of Exile by Women
Johnston Seminars
Collaborations Across Artistic Forms
Poetry and Painting
Poetry and Painting II
The Art of the Garden
Twentieth Century Drama
Books
"They Sing to Her Bones," New Issues Prize in Poetry, Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press, Western Michigan University (2000)
Reviewed in : The Harvard Review (Fall, 2000), The Marlboro Review (Summer/Fall 2000), ForeWord Magazine (May, 2000), The National Forum, May (2001)
Anthologies
"O Beautiful Boy," forthcoming, The Eye of the Beholder: A Poets' Gallery, ed., Maurya Simon and Elizabeth Aamot
Poems in Periodicals (partial list)
"Crow" Massachusetts Review, forthcoming
"Stay" Poetry International, forthcoming
"Small" The Colorado Review, (Spring, 2009)
"This"
"Her,"
"Treatment" Ninth Letter, (Spring 2004)
"July 4th" Alaska Quarterly Review, (Fall/Winter 2003)
"Loosestrife" The Colorado Review, (Spring 2000)
Essays in Periodicals
"What I Learned in Art School," Massachusetts Review, forthcoming
Panels
"The Sister Art(s): Toward a Feminist Ekphrasis," Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2009
"On First Books," Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Palm Springs, CA, 2001
Readings (partial list)
Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, CA
Casa Romantica Reading Series, San Clemente, CA
CSS Reading Series, New York City, NY
"Writers' Week," University of California/Riverside, Riverside, CA
Cody's Bookstore, Berkeley, CA
Carthage College, Carthage, WI
California State University/Northridge, Northridge, CA
Faculty Research Grants, University of Redlands
Outstanding Research/Creative Activity Award, University of Redlands
New Issues Prize in Poetry, New Issues Press, Western Michigan University
Nomination, Pushcart Prize XVII: Best of the Small Presses (2000-2001, 2003-04 editions)
The Marlboro Review Prize in Poetry, second place, The Marlboro Review
Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Redlands
Graves Award in the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Artist Resident Fellowships, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Readers' Choice Award, Prairie Schooner
Poetry Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Academy of American Poets
Associated Writing Programs
