Curriculum Vitae

Thomas E. Kennedy, MFA, PhD Strandboulevarden 118 DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark info@thomasekennedy.com American citizen: Resident in USA until 1974 Resident in France, 1974-76 Resident in Denmark, 1976-present

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Contents:

Distinctions, Grants, Awards Education Editorial Appointments Teaching Experience In Manuscript

Publications Books Columns Essays and Other Nonfiction Other: Documentary Film Poetry Short Fiction Translations: Books Translations: Short Works

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Publications: Books

NOTE: Books are listed by release date, in reverse chronological order. For more information about these books, please see Book Details.

• Writers on the Job: Tales of the Nonwriting Life (essays, Co-editor with Walter Cummins). Titusville, NJ: Hopewell Publications, July 2008.
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• Riding the Dog: A Look Back at America (essays). Fort Collins, CO: New American Press, October 2008.
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• Cast Upon the Day (stories). Titusville, NJ: Hopewell Publications, August 2007.
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• A Passion in the Desert (novel). LaGrande: Wordcraft of Oregon, April 2007.
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• The Literary Traveler (nonfiction, Co-author with Walter Cummins). Washington, DC: Del Sol Press, 2005.
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• The Copenhagen Quartet, a four-novel cycle consisting of:
  • Danish Fall. Galway: Wynkin de Worde, 2005
  • Greene’s Summer. Galway: Wynkin de Worde, 2004
  • Bluett’s Blue Hours. Galway: Wynkin de Worde, 2003
  • Kerrigan’s Copenhagen, A Love Story. Galway: Wynkin de Worde, 2002
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• Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction (nonfiction). LaGrande, Oregon: Wordcraft, 2002.
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• Stories and Sources (nonfiction, 1998) and Poems and Sources (nonfiction, 2000) are companion volumes of interest for the teaching of creative writing, both of which Kennedy guest-edited as special anthology issues of The Literary Review (Fairleigh Dickinson University). The Secret Life of Writers (nonfiction, 2002), co-edited with Walter Cummins, is something of a third volume in this creative writing series.
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• Drive, Dive, Dance & Fight (stories). Kansas City: University of Missouri, BkMk Press, 1997.
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• The Book of Angels (novel). LaGrande, Oregon: Wordcraft, 1997.
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• A Weather of the Eye (novel). Prairie Village, KS: Potpourri Publications, 1996.
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• Unreal City (stories). LaGrande, Oregon: Wordcraft, 1996.
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• Robert Coover: A Study of the Short Fiction (nonfiction). New York: Macmillan, 1992.
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• The American Short Story Today (nonfiction, Editor). Copenhagen: United States Information Service, 1991.
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• Crossing Borders (novel). Wichita, KS: Watermark Press, 1990.
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• Andre Dubus: A Study of the Short Fiction (nonfiction). Boston/New York: Twayne/G.K.Hall/Macmillan, 1988.
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• Other titles include an index to American short story award collections (Macmillan, 1993) and anthologies of new Danish fiction (1995) and new Irish writing (1997) published as special issues of The Review of Contemporary Fiction and The Literary Review.
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• In addition, as International Editor of Cimarron Review for a decade (1990-2000), Kennedy compiled mini-dossiers and selections of writing translated into English from Denmark, France, Norway, Ireland, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, South Africa, the Netherlands, Portugal, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the former Czecheslovakia, Italy, Spain, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Syria, Australia, and India. A retrospective issue of this work was published in Cimarron Review, number 128, Fall 1999.

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Publications: Columns

• “The Literary Explorer” (Co-author with Walter Cummins), online travel column published by Web Del Sol since 2001; column formerly named “The Literary Traveler.”
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• “Writers on the Job” (Co-editor with Walter Cummins), online column about other writers. Commenced publication by Web Del Sol in 2005.

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Publications: Essays and Other Nonfiction

• One of Kennedy’s personal essays, “I Am Joe’s Prostate,” appears in New Letters quarterly magazine, Volume 73, Issue Number 4, and shared top billing for New Letters Readers Award for the Essay, 2006-2007.
  
  “I Am Joe’s Prostate,” then won a National Magazine Award in the Essay category for 2008. Finalists also included essays by Walter Kim, Stephen King, Katrina Onstad, Tim Page, and Sallie Tisdale. Winners of the National Magazine Awards were announced on the first of May.
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• Several excerpts from Kennedy’s essays on writing appear in the Glimmer Train Guide to Writing Fiction, Volume I, Building Blocks, Writer’s Digest Books (2006).
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• Kennedy has interviewed many outstanding contemporary writers — including Andre Dubus II, James Carroll, William Stafford, Duff Brenna, Gladys Swan, Gordon Weaver, and others — and interviews with Kennedy himself have been published in many magazines and aired on television and radio, including Glimmer Train, Frank, PIF, The Literary Review, New Letters on the Air, New Letters TV, Danish Television DR2 and TV2, and elsewhere.
  
  An in-depth interview with Kennedy about his experience as an expatriate writer, conducted as a Harvard senior project by Melanie Tortoroli, appears in the fall 2007 issue of South Carolina Review.
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• Essays, craft-articles (i.e., the craft of writing), travel writing, interviews, and essay-reviews also appear in the following:

Agni American Book Review American Poetry Review AWP Chronicle Bedford Introduction to Literature Best Writing on Writing Chariton Review Cimarron Review Contemporary Literary Criticism Current Authors Dictionary of Literary Biography Green Mountains Review Hollins Critic Iowa Review Kenyon Review Literary Review of Canada New Letters PMLA Forum

Quarterly West San Francisco Review of Books Seattle Review Sewanee Review Short Story Criticism The Literary Review The Midwest Quarterly The Review of Contemporary Fiction The Writer Tiferet Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Web del Sol Western Humanities Review Writers Chronicle Writers Forum Writers Handbook   ...and many others.

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Publications: Other: Documentary Film

DVD Documentary Film (29 minutes) on the making of “Thomas E. Kennedy’s Copenhagen Quartet.” Written and directed by Professor Greg Herriges, and produced by Tom Knoff (Harper College, Illinois, 2004).

For details, please see About the Film.

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Publications: Poetry

Great River Review Gulf Stream Review Hollins Critic Isis Passages North

Potpourri Slipstream South Carolina Review The Contemporary Review   ...and elsewhere.

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Publications: Short Fiction

Agni American Fiction Arts and Letters Beloit Fiction Journal Black Warrior Review Boulevard Central Park Chariton Review Confrontation Crosscurrents Four Quarters Frank Gettysburg Review Glimmer Train Great River Review Gulf Coast Missouri Review New Delta Review New Letters

New Novel Review North American Review O. Henry Prize Stories Other Voices Paris Transcontinental Passages North Passport Prism International Pushcart Prize Rosebud Short Story Southwest Review StoryQuarterly The European Magazine The Literary Review Virginia Quarterly Review Writers Forum Writers Notes Magazine   ...and many others.

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Publications: Translations: Books

• Guldbrandsen, Alice Maud. Silence Was My Song (Tavshed Blev Min Sang). Copenhagen: Documentas, 2005. English translation completed in 2007.
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• For more information about Ms. Guldbrandsen, her book, and Kennedy’s translation, please see New Translations: Silence Was My Song: The Bombing of the French School.
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• Larsen, Thomas. The Meeting with Evil: Inge Genefke’s Fight against Torture (Inge Genefke, Portæt af en Ildsjæl.) Copenhagen: Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2005. English translation completed in 2007.
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• New Letters magazine of the University of Missouri Kansas City will run a three-part series carved from Kennedy’s translation of Larsen’s book. The three parts will run consecutively in the Fall 2007, Spring 2008, and Summer 2009 issues: Volume 74, numbers 1, 2, and 3.
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• For more information about Inge Genefke, Thomas Larsen’s book, and Kennedy’s translation, please see New Books: In Manuscript: The Meeting with Evil.

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Publications: Translations: Short Works

• In December 2006, four of Kennedy’s translations of Henrik Nordbrandt poems were accepted for publication by American Poetry Review.
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• Kennedy has been translating poems by Pia Tafdrup for the past twenty years — one or two every so often. In the course of that time Pia Tafdrup has become one of the leading Danish poets of her generation and widely recognized as such throughout Europe. Kennedy’s translations of her work appear in many American literary magazines, most recently in The Literary Review, New Letters, and Tiferet.
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• As International Editor of Cimarron Review for a decade (1990-2000), Kennedy compiled mini-dossiers and selections of writing translated into English from Denmark, France, Norway, Ireland, the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, South Africa, the Netherlands, Portugal, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the former Czecheslovakia, Italy, Spain, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Syria, Australia, and India. A retrospective issue of this work was published in Cimarron Review, number 128, Fall 1999.
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• Kennedy’s translations also appear in:

Asylum Blue Unicorn Cimarron Review Colorado Review Danish Literary Magazine Frank Heksering Literary Olympians New Letters Paintbrush Pequod

Rohwedder Stone Country TelAviv Review The Contemporary Review The Literary Review The Review of Contemporary Fiction This Same Sky Tiferet Visions International   ...and others.

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Distinctions, Grants, Awards

• National Magazine Award, Essay category (2008).
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• New Letters Readers Award for the Essay (2006-2007).
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• First Annual Expatriate Writer Award, Frank Magazine, Paris (2002).
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• Gulf Coast Short Story Competition, First Prize (2000).
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• The European Magazine Short Story Competition winner, twice in 1995.
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• O. Henry Prize (1994).
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• American Fiction Competition (1990), published finalist.
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• Pushcart Prize (1990).
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• Charles Angoff Award for short story (1988) The Literary Review.
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• Emerging Writer Award for short story (1987), Passages North.
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• Numerous honorable mentions for short fiction in the Pushcart Prize and in the Best American Short Stories, as well as elsewhere.

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Education

• PhD
  American Literature
  Copenhagen University English Department, 1988
  Thesis title: “The Uses of Verisimilitude: Fiction as Realism, Imagination, Craft”
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• MFA
  Fiction writing
  Vermont College of Norwich University, 1985
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• BA
  Language and literature (summa cum laude)
  Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 1974

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Editorial Appointments

• Co-editor: Best New Writing/The Eric Hoffer Award, Hopewell Publications annual (2006-present).
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• Advisory Editor, frequent Guest-Editor, contributing editor: The Literary Review (1996-present).
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• International Editor: StoryQuarterly (2000-present).
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• International Editor: Potpourri (1994-2003).
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• Contributing Editor: The Pushcart Prize (1991-present).
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• International Editor: Cimarron Review (1990-2000).
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• Member of Editorial Board:
  • Absinthe: New European Writing (2004-present)
  • Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature (2004-present)
  • Beacon Street Review (1998)
  • New Letters (short-story prize final judge, 1997)
  • International Quarterly (specific years unavailable)
  • Short Story (founding board, 1988)

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Teaching Experience

• Core Faculty, 2000-present: Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA Program.
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• Workshop Leader, 1998-2008: Geneva Writers Conference (biennial weekend conference at Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland).
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• Workshop Leader, 1998-2004: The College of New Jersey Writers Conference (biennial weekend conference).
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• Distinguished Visiting Writer, January 1999 and January 2003: Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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• Faculty member, 1990 and 1992-1999: Emerson College/Ploughshares International Fiction Writing Seminar, Castle Well, the Netherlands.
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• TA, 1985-86, and Fiction Faculty, 1986-89: Vermont College of Norwich University.
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• Other short-term experience as visiting lecturer and reader at many colleges, universities, and writing centers, including:
  • Aarhus University
  • Academy of Performing Arts (Orleans, MA)
  • Birmingham Midlands Institute
  • California State University, San Marcos
  • Charlotte Country Day School
  • Claflin College
  • Copenhagen University
  • Eastern Oregon State University
  • Emerson College
  • Harvard University MFA Program
  • Kansas State University (Wichita)
  • Leuven University (Belgium)
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Mississippi State University
  • Mississippi University for Women
  • Northeast Missouri State University
  • Odense University
  • Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
  • Royal Danish School of Educational Studies
  • Samuel Adams Institute (Amsterdam)
  • Southern Danish University
  • Southern Methodist University
  • University of Idaho
  • University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
  • University of Missouri, Columbia
  • University of Missouri, Kansas City
  • Washington State University
  • Webster University (Geneva)
  • William Rainey Harper College
  • Women’s Institute of Continuing Education (WICE, Paris)
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• Numerous other university visits and public readings, talks, and radio and television broadcasts at various venues in North America and Europe.

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In Manuscript

The following five manuscripts are available for publication:

• Roaring Boys — a novel set in Queens, New York City, in 1964, about a group of young men about to be drafted into service in the Vietnam War.
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• Mistress of the Sunrise — a collection of stories, all of which have been published in nationally distributed North American literary journals. Most of these stories have received various distinctions.
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• A View of the World — a collection of stories set in various cities in the US and around the world, all of which have been published in nationally distributed North American literary journals. Most of these stories have received distinctions.
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• Silence Was My Song: The Bombing of the French School — Kennedy’s translation from the Danish of the book by Alice Maud Guldbrandsen, Danish painter, photographer, and writer. For details, please see New Books: In Manuscript: Silence Was My Song.
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• The Meeting with Evil: Inge Genefke’s Fight against Torture — Kennedy’s translation from the Danish of the book by distinguished political journalist, Thomas Larsen. For complete details, please see New Books: In Manuscript: The Meeting with Evil.

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