CARLY R. SACHS 533 EARL AVE KENT, OHIO 44240

330.322.0052 csachs@kent.edu EDUCATION Kent State University Kent, OH (July 2014 present) Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow in Rhetoric and Composition. Drisha Institute New York, NY (Sept. 2007 December 2008) Arts Fellow enrolled full time in the Yesodot Program, fully funded as an Arts Fellow for 2007-2008 academic year, and part time for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Academic Studies: Biblical Hebrew and Talmud. Research/Teaching interests: religion and literature; Jewish womens fiction, poetry, and film; Jewish-American literature and culture; ritual studies; women and religion.

New School University New York, NY (Sept. 2001 - June 2003) M.F.A. in Creative Writing (poetry), second year assistantship with David Lehman

Research/Teaching interests: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction writing; contemporary American poetry and poetics; poetry in translation; poetry and performance; flash fiction/prose poetry; ethnic American fiction.

Charles University Prague, Czech Republic (June 2000 - July 2000) Participant, Prague Summer Seminars-Study Abroad Program through the University of New Orleans. Creative Writing Workshops with Mary Doty and Colleen McElroy; Jewish Studies with Roger Kamenentz. Kent State University Kent, OH (Sept. 1997 June 2001) B.A. in English Literature, Summa cum Laude. Honors With Distinction in English. Minors in Creative Writing and Jewish Studies CREATIVE AND CRITICAL WRITING TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Fellow, Kent State University (Kent, Ohio. August 2014-present) ENG 11011, College English I; ENG 21011, College English II Instructor, Kent State University (Kent, Ohio. August 2013-May 2014) ENG 11011, College English I Assistant Professorial Lecturer in English, George Washington University (Washington D.C. Jan. 2005 July 2008) ENGL 81, Introduction to Creative Writing ENGL 81DE, Distance Learning Section of ENGL 81 (proficient in using Blackboard) SERVICE: Site Manager, Washington Writes a Story Day 2006; Reading Coordinator, Walt Whitman Marathon Reading 2005. Creative Arts Specialist, Bnai Brith Youth Organization (Washington D.C. June 2004 - August 2004) Worked with high school students to create public art spaces from their individual and collaborative writing projects at

Bnai Brith Perlman Camp in Starlight, PA. Teaching Artist Intern, Community Word Project (New York, NY Oct. 2002 - June 2003) Participated in a 25 week training program which emphasized multiple intelligence learning, collaboration, and the interpretation of ones own creative process as an artist in order to make creative writing accessible and innovative for public school children. Worked with the teaching artists at P.S. 79 in the Bronx. Literary Arts Counselor, West Side YMCA (New York, NY. July 2002 August 2002) Developed and implemented a creative writing program for the YMCAs summer arts camp. ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teacher, Walton High School (Bronx, NY. Sept. 2003 February 2004) Create and implement curriculum based on NY ELA Standards. Classes taught: Freshmen English, remedial and honors and Regents Prep.

Teacher, Akron Hebrew High School (Akron, Ohio. Oct. 1999 May 2001) Taught classes in Comparative Judaism, Leadership, the Holocaust, and Jewish Literature. AWARDS AND HONORS Writing Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships:

Arts Fellow, Drisha Institute (2007-2008). Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship Workshop; workshop participant, selected by Joyce Hackett (January 2005). Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award Winner, Kent State University; second place (2001). Bengier Thesis Scholarship, Kent State University (May 2000). Stan and Tom Wick Honors Poetry Scholarship, Kent State University (1997).

Poetry Awards: Charlotte Newberger Poetry Contest, Lilith Magazine; chosen by Marcia Falk (August 2012) London School of Jewish Studies Poetry Runner-Up chosen by Eve Grubin (October 2010) Charlotte Newberger Poetry Contest, Lilith Magazine; Honorable Mention chosen by Alicia Ostriker (July 2009) Larry Neal Award in Poetry, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (finalist May 2007). Washington Writers Publishing House First Book Prize (2006). Ekphrasis Prize for Poetry (finalist July 2006). Inclusion in The Best American Poetry (2004) Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry (2004). Vera List Art Collection Writing Award, New School University; second place (May 2002). Zurava Writing Portfolio Award, Kent State University (March 2001). Anna Engleman Creative Writing Award, Kent State University (March 2000).

Fiction Awards: iPhone Fiction Readers Choice Award (November 2013) Stella Kupfenberg Memorial Short Story Award, Symphony Space (May 2011) Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers; honorable mention (July 2009) SLS Summer Literary Seminars; finalist (April 2009)

F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest; honorable mention (October 2007). PUBLICATIONS Books:

the steam sequence (Washington Writers Publishing House, 2006). Winner of the Washington Writers House First Book Prize for Poetry (2006). Reviews of the collection appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Lilith, Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary

Journal, The Montserrat Review, Galatea Ressurects, and other periodicals.

the why and later, an anthology of poems that women have written about rape and sexual assault (Deep Cleveland Press, 2007). Yama/Niyama chapbook inspired by yoga philosophy

Poems in Anthologies:

Berry Bender, Real Butter, and Messages. Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland. North Liberty, Iowa: Ice Cube Press, 2014.

How to Write an Ohio Poem, Another City. Will It Fly: Fallen City Writers Anthology. Youngstown, OH, 2014. Indecent Docent: Sex Deprived Tina. The Incredible Sestina Anthology. Austin, TX: Write Bloody Press, October

2013. Bourbon, Bourbon for Blood: An Anthology of Bourbon Poetry. Toledo, Ohio: Winged City Press, 2013. Love at the Grocery. The Poets Cookbook. New York, NY: Bordighera Press, 2009. Take Back the Night. Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! Ed. Michelle Sewell. Hyattsville, MD: Girl Child Press, 2008. My Fathers Auden. Capital Bookfest Coffee Table Book. Ed. Kwame Alexander. Washington, DC, 2007. Ultra Violet. The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel Second Floor. Eds. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden.

Washington, DC: No Tell Books (2007). Mourners Kaddish, a variation, and Kent, Ohio. Regrets Only. Ed. Martha Manno. Seekonk, MA: Little Pear

Press, 2006.

In Response To Pussy. The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. Eds. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden. Washington, DC: No Tell Books, 2005.

the story. The Best American Poetry. Eds. Lyn Heijinian and David Lehman. New York, NY: Scribner, 2004 Portobello Prince, and Portobello Prince Gets a Make-Over. Literary Lunch. Ed. Jeannette Brown. Knoxville, TN:

Knoxville Writers Guild, 2002. Exorcising Paul. The F U Anthology (Slope Editions, issue 17, online), 2003 Roof Perspectives Up From The Ruins (Sept. 11 Chapbook), 2001.

Poems in Journals: Wabi Sabi: Motel Manager Speaks Flyover Country Review (February 2015). Pomegranate, Pine Hills Review (Winter 2014). Hiraeth, Eleven Eleven. (Summer 2014). Poem for the Man Who Called Me a JewBu, Jewish Journal. Los Angeles, CA: March 8-14, 2013. Talmud Study, Jewish Journal. Los Angeles, CA: March 29-April 4, 2013. Santosha, Moment Magazine (March/April 2013) The Expiration Date, Ilanot Review (Autumn 2011)

Immortal Blueberries, From Plate to Palate (June 2011) Another City, and Date Night, Red Headed Stepchild (Fall 2010) Maine, Split This Rock (July 2010) "Souvenir," "Irish Car Bomb," "Notes on Leaving," "Getting Over It," "Bark/Bite." No Tell Motel (Jan. 2010) Ode to a Tampon, Court Green (Jan. 2010) Reoccuring Vegetables & Faking It, Alimentum (January 2009) Adam and Eve on the Upper East Side Ducts (Winter 2009) Prayer, Hoshana Morning, Like Pig, The New Vilna Review (May 2008) After the Reading in Southeast, Hotel Bartender Attends Her First Bachelor Party,

and A Drinkers Love Poem, The Delaware Poetry Review (September 2008) Because, Presentense (Spring 2008) Postcard from Cristina, Winter, and Clarification, Nextbook (April 2008) Driving, A Fairytale, The Saint Anns Review (March 2008) The Game, Gargoyle (October 2008)) Roof Perspectives, Beltway Poetry Quarterly (October 2007) In the Stars, Rekindling, and Sunday Brownies, OCHO #13 (October 2007). the nature of white, and They Let Certain Women, 27 rue de fleurs (Summer 2007). Donut Philosphy, and My Fathers Auden, Dragon Fire; Drexel University (Spring 2007). The Protest in Aisle Six, Contraband Bananas, and Buddha-Bellied Squash, Alimentum Special Online series of

podcasts from Grocery Store Diva (2007). Scar Tissue, CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual (2006). One, 1 x 1, Krefeld Project, Bedroom #6, MiPOesias (2006). Self-Portrait with Cigarette, Ekphrasis (2006). The Possible Movement, The Art Student, and Synaesthasia, Coconut (Issue 5, 2006). Jack In The Pulpit No. 4, Beltway Poetry Quarterly (2006). Nightmare, 30 Weeks, Indecent Docent, la gallerie dune femme, Wicked Alice (2006) The Beginning of Cubism, Runes Review (2006). Vegetables Arent Immaculately Conceived, The Crisis and Ramonas Mantra Alimentum (Vol. 1, 2006). Indecent Docent, McSweeney (online sestinas 11-21-05). Marriage Ceremony, Kibbutz Nir Am, 1948, The Barn, The Viola, The Glass Blower, The Reading Girl, and

The Conversion of Saint Paul, No Tell Motel (2005). A Poem about Memory and/or Dust Bunnies, Goodfoot (2005). in the tea, and steam rolling off, PMS: Poemmemoirstory (2004). Truths, Another Chicago Magazine (2003). the story, PMS: Poemmemoirstory (2003). The House of Mirrors, The Chiron Review (2003). The Wanting Does Not Stop Here, Artcrimes (issue 20) (2003).

The Means of Reproduction, and Portobello Prince, Pavement Saw (no. 7) (2002). Jepthahs Daughter, Queens College of Jewish Studies Journal (2002).

Fiction: Eddie Loves Debbie, Eddie Loves Debbie: The Youngstown Anthology. Youngstown, OH: YSU, 2013. Tender, read by Mary Brienza on NPRs Selected Shorts, December 2011. Midrash, Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women. Arlington, VA: Paycock Press, 2009. Non-Fiction: Headphones, Blue Lyra Review. December 2013. Book Reviews:

Review of Reverse Rapture, by Dara Wier. Cutbank (Issue #65) (April 2006). READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS Selected Poetry Readings:

Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL 2014) The Scarab Club (Detroit, MI 2009/2013) University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK -2008) Kent State University (Kent, OH 2008/2010) KGB Bar (New York, NY 2007/2008) Bluestockings Bookstore (New York, NY 2007) Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago, IL 2007) Emory University (Atlanta, GA - 2007) Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA 2007) George Washington University (Washington, D.C. 2006) Baltimore Book Festival (Baltimore, MD -2006) Library of Congress (Washington, DC -2006)

Conference Papers, Panels, and Lectures:

Panelist, "The Far Flung Tendril: Tracing Womens Literate Practices of Making from the Local to the Global. Feminism and Rhetorics Conference 2015. Tempe, AZ.

Panelist, Touching In: How Kripalu Yoga Mediates Agency. Society for Disability Studies Conference 2015. Atlanta, GA.

Panelist, From Bowie to Baking: Approaches to Publishing Student Writing. CCCC Digital Pedagogy Poster 2015. Tampa, FL.

RNF Presenter, Research in Progress CCCC 2015. Tampa, FL. Panelist, From iBook to Integration: Creating Meaningful Assignments. Kent State University Teaching Council

Conference, 2014. Kent, Ohio. Panelist, Women Write Resistance. Split This Rock Poetry Festival, 2014. Washington, DC. Panelist, Celebrating the Singular Heart: Women Poets Honor June Jordans Poetry on Sexual Assault Split This

Rock Poetry Festival, 2012. Washington, DC. Panelist, Washington Writers Publishing House Poetry Reading Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, 2011. Washington, DC. Panelist, From Survivor to Thriver: Write Yourself Split This Rock Poetry Festival, 2011. Washington, DC.

Panelist, Jewish Poetry vs. Poetry by Jews Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, 2009. Chicago, IL. Chair and Panelist, Speaking Through Silence: Women Writing About Rape and Sexual Assault Associated

Writing Programs Annual Conference, 2008. New York, NY. Workshops: Instructor, Writing What We Love: A Food Writers Workshop, The Place for Words, 2011. Bedford, MA. Instructor, The Intersection Between Life and Fiction, The Place for Words, 2011. Bedford, MA. Co-facilitator, Yoga and Writing in Changing Times, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, 2010. Washington, DC. Instructor, Here and Hearing: A Poetry Workshop National Havurah Institute, 2007. Ringe, NH. Workshop Leader, Poetry F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, 2007. Rockville, MD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant to David Lehman and Joan Larkin (2002-2004) Provide support for individual projects by both writers and work affiliated with The New School and New England College. Intern, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (Feb. 2002 May 2004) Assist Program Director with non-profit arts programming. Generate and edit press releases. Correspond with member presses. Serve as representative at round tables, panels, conferences, and book fairs. Assist with data base management. Intern, Wick Poetry Program (Jan. 2001- May 2001) Assist visiting poets with travel, transportation, and reading/teaching duties. Assist with promotion, development, and publicity. Write articles for English Department newsletter. Intern, Pig Iron Press (Dec. 1998 August 1999) Facilitate writing workshops, poetry readings, and meetings. Established the annual Youngstown Poetry Slam. Assist with book design and promotion. SERVICE Publicity, KGB Monday Night Poetry New York, NY (Sept. 2002 May 2008) Co-Curator, Lolita and Gildas Burlesque Poetry Hour Washington, DC (Jan. 2006 August 2007) Guest Judge, Folio Magazine Poetry Contest, Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT (2007) Reader, Stan and Tom Wick Honors Poetry Scholarship Contest, Kent State University Kent, OH (2001)

Read student portfolios and selected candidates for the scholarship. LANGUAGES Modern Hebrew (basic), Biblical Hebrew (intermediate) MEMBERSHIPS National Council for Teachers of English The Association for the Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Council of Writing Program Administrators Associated Writing Programs REFERENCES (CREATIVE WRITING) David Hassler, Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University, (330) 672-1769, dhassle1@kent.edu David McAleavey, Dept. of English, George Washington University, (202) 994-6180, dmca@gwu.edu Faye Moskowitz, Dept. of English, George Washington University, (202) 994-6180, faymos@gwu.edu David Lehman, Writing Program, New School University, (212) 229-5611, dclehman@mindspring.com Laurie Sheck, Writing Program, New School University, (212) 229-5611, lauriesheck@aol.com