REBECCA COOK
EDUCATION
1999-2001 University of TN at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN
MA, Professional Writing/English Writing and Rhetoric, December 2001
1996-1998 University of TN at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN
BA, English Literature, Minor Art History December 1998
1982 - 1988 Dalton College Dalton, GA
General Liberal Arts Curriculum
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
August 2000--present University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Composition (English 106, English 121, English 122)
Literature of the Humanities (English 113, English 115)
Creative Writing Nonfiction (English 374)
English as a Second Language (Writing, Conversation)
Related Teaching/Tutoring Experience:
Spring Semester, 2001 UTC Writing Center
Graduate Assistant Writing Tutor
2000-2001 UTC English as a Second Language Institute
Graduate Assistant Teaching: ESL Writing and Conversation
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
UTC Writing Center
Interim Director January--June 2002
Acting Coordinator August 2001—January 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Prose
"Stories in the Shapes of Objects" Quarter After Eight forthcoming (2005)
"The Avon Witness" storySouth Winter (2004)
"God Helps Those" Carve 5:1 (2004)
"69ing" Exquisite Corpse Winter (2003)
"Quilted Creek: Chapter 1” Northwest Review 41:2 (2003)
“Wish You Were Here” Northwest Review 41:2 (2003)
“The Misplaced Eye” Northwest Review 41:2 (2003)
“Soaping the Stream” Northwest Review 40.2 (2002), reprinted Rock Salt Plum
2:1(2004)
Poetry
“White Bird” Free Lunch forthcoming (2005)
“Father in Three” Madhatter Review forthcoming (2005)
"Third Person Going Down" Painted Bride Quarterly no. 71 (2004)
"The Outer Limits" Midwest Quarterly 43:1 (2004)
"Spawn" Rock Salt Plum 2:1 (2004)
"Resembling A Mouse" Rock Salt Plum 2:1(2004)
"Exiled" Margie 3:1 (2004)
"Throwing the Dog a Bone" Margie 3:1 (2004)
"What His Thumb Would Say" 3rd Muse (July 2004)
"My Mother and Me" 3rd Muse (July 2004)
"All the Regrets of My Mother's Life" Slipstream (2004)
"Just Put Your Lips Together" Plainsongs 24:3 (2004)
"Full of Fathers" Northwest Review 42:1 (2004)
"What Would Snow White Do?" The Anemone Sidecar (e-book) (April 2004)
"full of voices" Comstock Review 17:2 (2004)
"Full of Fathers" Northwest Review 42:1 (2004)
"The Intellectual Poets" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)
"After We Donated her Body to Science" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)
"Sleek and White" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)
"Aggregate Graves" Poems Niederngasse 65 (2004)
"Just Another Mary Jane Joke" Wicked Alice Winter (2003)
"Kissing" Wicked Alice Winter (2003)
"Dead Mother Behind Glass" Plainsongs 24:2 (2004)
"The Open Family" New Orleans Review 29:2 (2003)
"Our Habit of Holes" The Adirondack Review 4:3 (2003)
"Call Me Grim" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003) (nominated for 2003 Pushcart)
"How I've Worked To Improve My Poetry" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003)
"This Poem About Scars" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003)
"Making Children" Rock Salt Plum 1:1 (Winter 2003)
“The Dark Kitchen” Octavo Fall (2003)
“Testimony” Poems Niederngasse (2003)
“Flying Lessons” Wicked Alice Fall (2003)
“Estrogen Gets Her Kicks on a Saturday Night” Wicked Alice Fall (2003)
“Becoming the Poem” Wicked Alice Fall (2003)
“What You Want” Slow Trains Literary Journal 3:1 (2003)
“Rounding the Tip of the World” The Baltimore Review 7:2 (2003)
“Salvation” The Adirondack Review 4:1 (2003)
“God’s Woman” The Adirondack Review 4:1 (2003)
“Traveling In” Spoon River Poetry Review 28:1 (2003)
“Stuffed Full of Fear” Longshot 26:1 (2003)
“Penis Envy” Longshot 26:1 (2003)
“The Body Illusion” The Adirondack Review 3:4 (2003)
“God Cleans House” Comstock Review 16:1 (2002)
“Dancing Chickens” Breathing The Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology
Knoxville: Celtic Cat Publishing (2001)
“Behind the Revival Tent” Plainsongs 20:3 (2000)
“Little White Hood” Plainsongs 21:1 (2000)
“The Rhythm Eternal” Plainsongs 19:3 (1999)
“Where Do You Keep Your Rifle, Mr. Heston?”
Mother Earth International Journal 6:2 (1999)
“Splinter” America 178:19 (1998)
“Not One For Fairy Tales” Southern Humanities Review 31:3 (1997)
“God-thing” Spoon River Poetry Review 22:2 (1997)
“On the Phone” Plainsongs 18:1 (1997)
“Gardner” Voices International 31:1 (1996)
“In the Biblical Sense” Old Red Kimono vol. 25 (1996)
“God” Nomad’s Choir (1996)
“Gin” Plainsongs 17:1 (1996)
“Bath” Plainsongs 17:1 (1996)
“Bluebird” Black Buzzard Review 13:1 (1995), reprinted Rock Salt Plum Fall (2004)
“Living in the Bible Belt” Pumpkinhead 1:1 (1995)
“Streets” In Your Face #11 (1995)
“Picking Corn” Plainsongs 15:2 (1995)
“Dancers” Ariel Springfest Annual Anthology (1995)
“Cousin” Plainsongs 14:2 (1994)
“Beginnings” Catharsis 3:2 (1993)
PUBLICATIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION
Prose
“The Lawnmower Guard” Story Quarterly
“Loose Floorboard” “Jauncy’s Feathers” Carve Magazine
“Inside Herman Inside Irene,” “According to the Girl” Northwest Review
“Down in My Heart” Kenyon Review
“The Terrible Baby” Stirring Literary Magazine
Poetry
The Terrible Baby poetry manuscript under consideration at numerous presses
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Full-length Manuscripts: Life With James, Quilted Creek, Soaping the Stream: a fiction
collection
Numerous short stories and poems
CONFERENCES
Paper Presentation: “Swimming Across the Divide” 2002 Writing Across the
Curriculum Conference Huston, TX
Attendance and Participation in Poetry Reading: 2002 CCCC Conference
Chicago, IL
Attendance: 2002 International Writing Center Association Conference in
Savannah, GA
Paper Presentation: “Exploring Orality: a Life of Words,” Poetry Presentation
2000 Popular Culture/American Studies Annual Conference Nashville, TN
WORKSHOPS
Facilitator:
Creative Writing Workshops: Sequatchie County High School 2003 & 2004
Poetry Workshop: Chattanooga Writers Guild 2001
Publishing Workshop: “Publishing in Literary Journals” Chattanooga Writers Guild Spring 2004
Writing Workshop: “Learning to Write Good Dialogue” Chattanooga Writers Guild Fall 2004
WRITING AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Fiction Editor: Rock Salt Plum (current)
Associate Poetry Editor: Pierian Springs Spring/Summer 2004
OTHER SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Judge: UTC Women’s Studies Poetry Contest Spring 2005
Treasurer: Chattanooga Writers Guild as of January 2005
President: Chattanooga Writers Guild 2002-2004
Facilitator: Barefoot Poetry Reading Series Summer, Fall 2003
Reader: Meacham Writers Workshop Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Fall 2004
Director: Vagina Monologues UTC campus production 2003
Actor: Vagina Monologues UTC campus production 2002
Cofounder: Chattanooga Writers Guild 2002
Cofounder: UTC PoetryMonday poetry readings 2001-2002
Judge: I.H. Patton Essay Contest 2001
Judge: Student Poetry Category, Butch Couch Writers Contest 1997
Reader: Barking Legs Theatre “Poetry Evening with Daniel Moore and Rebecca Cook” 1996
HONORS AND AWARDS
Writing:
Finalist: Flume Press 2004 Fiction Chapbook Contest: Soaping the Stream: A Prose Chapbook
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2003: “Call Me Grim”
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2002: “Soaping the Stream”
Winner: UTC Women’s Studies Annual Poetry Competition 2000
Plainsongs Award Poems: “Cousin” 1994 “Gin” 1995
Butch Couch Writers Contest: Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction Writing Awards 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Other:
Spring 2001 UTC Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in English Writing and Rhetoric
2001 Who’s Who Among American College Graduate Students
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Academy of American Poets www.poets.org/index.cfm
Chattanooga Writers Guild chattanoogawritersguild.org
Zoetrope Virtual Online Studio www.zoetrope.com
REFERENCES
John Witte Northwest Review, Editor
396 PLC, University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-3911
541-346-3911
Jalina Mhyana Rock Salt Plum, Editor
Dr. Verbie Prevost English Department, Acting Head
University of TN at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-425-4238
Dr. Lauren Ingraham English Composition Program, Director
University of TN at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-425-5232
Dr. Eileen Meagher English Department, Graduate English Writing and
Rhetoric Program Director
University of TN at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423-425-4693