Lauren W. Westerfield - Abridged CV
EDUCATION
MFA Creative Writing, Nonfiction, University of Idaho, 2018.
BA English & American Literatures, Middlebury College, 2007
BOOKS
Depth Control, Unsolicited Press ( forthcoming April 2025)
WRITING
Essays
FENCE - Madonna of the Master Bath, 2021
Seneca Review – A Broom to Remove the Dust, 2021
Denver Quarterly – Cramping at The Bone, 2020
Third Coast – [This Body] Fictions, 2020
Indiana Review – Dark Storage, 2019
Ninth Letter – That Same Summer, 2019
The Pinch – On Shame, 2019
DIAGRAM – Bruxisms, 2018
New Delta Review – Milk Clock, 2018
Sonora Review – Indentations, 2018
The Baltimore Review – The Need to Use Your Teeth, 2018
Phoebe – Depth Control, 2018
[PANK] – Hologram, 2017
Redivider – Cracks, 2015
The Rumpus – Twenty-Seven, 2013
Revolution House – Still Life, 2013
Poetry
Opt West - “Tampa Elegy,” 2022
Willow Springs – “Snow,” 2020
Hobart – “As Killjoy,” “As Block Paragraph,” 2018
Permafrost – “The Color Field,” 2018
Phoebe – “Tumbleweed,” 2017
Noble/Gas Quarterly – “As Saturnine in Spring,” “As Flash Rain in Summer,” 2017
TEACHING
Assistant Professor, English Department, Washington State University, 2018-Present
Courses:
405: Advanced Professional Writing & Editing (1 section/3 credits)
357: Editing & Publishing (6 sections/18 credits)
353: Creative Writing: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction (1 section/3 credits)
251: Creative Writing: Introduction to Genres (3 sections/9 credits)
109: Creative Writing Now (2 section/6 credits)
354: Digital Storytelling (5 sections/15 credits)
298: Honors Writing & Research (4 sections/12 credits)
280: Honors Contextual Understanding in the Arts & Humanities (1 section/3 credits)
402: Technical & Professional Writing – Online (2 section/6 credits)
101: College Composition (12 sections/36 credits)
Graduate Instructor, English Department, University of Idaho, 2015-2018
Courses:
393: Intermediate/Advanced Nonfiction (1 section/3 credits)
293: Beginning Creative Nonfiction (2 sections/6 credits)
102: College Writing & Rhetoric (6 sections/12 credits)
101: Introduction to College Writing (2 sections/6 credits)
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts - Writer-In-Residence Award, 2022
Idaho Commission on the Arts, Fellowship in Literature, 2022
Stillhouse Press Experimental Prose Prize – Winner, 2021
Service Excellent Award, Washington State University, 2021
Access Center Faculty of the Year Award – Nominee, Washington State University, 2021
Instructor Distinguished Service Award, Washington State University, 2020
Idaho Commission on the Arts, Individual Grant, 2020
Summer Research/Creative Activity Fellowship, Washington State University, 2019
Graduate Fellow, Center for Digital Inquiry & Learning, University of Idaho, 2018
Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2018
Phoebe Nonfiction Contest – Finalist, 2018
Best New Poets Nominee, 2018
Alumni Award for Excellent, University of Idaho, 2018
Montana Book Festival Emerging Writers Contest – Finalist, 2018
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts – Writer-In-Residence Award, 2017
Academy of American Poets Prize – Honorable Mention, 2017
AWP Intro Journals Award Nominee, 2016
Centrum Fellowship, University of Idaho, 2016
Grace V. Nixon Graduate Scholarship, University of Idaho, 2015
Lumina Nonfiction Contest – Finalist, 2013
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Nonfiction/Hybrid/Memoir Editor, Split/Lip Press, 2020-Present
Editor-in-chief, Blood Orange Review, 2022-Present
Managing Editor, Blood Orange Review, 2020-2022
Creative Nonfiction Editor, Blood Orange Review, 2018-2022
Creative Nonfiction Editor, Fugue Journal, 2016-2018
Assistant Essays Editor, The Rumpus, 2014-2016
Senior Editor, LA Canvas Magazine, 2014-2015
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Editing & Publishing Certificate Coordinator, Washington State University, 2020-Present
Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department, Washington State University, Fall 2022
Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department, Washington State University, 2019-Present
Student Media Board, Faculty at Large, Washington State University, 2019-2021
Pop-Up Prose Co-Founder, Moscow ID, 2016-2020
Summer Interim Program Coordinator, University of Idaho, 2016-2017
Teaching Collaborative, TA Training Facilitator, University of Idaho, 2016-2017
CONFERENCES, PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
“Working with a Book Editor,” Mapping the Maze, Poets & Writers Online Workshop, 2022
“Her Muted Parts: Antiphony, Autofiction, and the Polyvocal Self,” Colloquium Series, WSU, 2019
“CTRL+Shift: Writing and Coding Practices in the Digital Era,” Renfrew Colloquium Series, UI, 2018
“Inlanders: A Reading & Publishing Panel with Fugue and Willow Springs,” Montana Book Festival, 2017
“CTRL+Shift: Poets on Writing Practice at the Dawn of Personal Computing,” Montana Book Festival, 2017
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center Open Studio, Nebraska City NE, 2017
Get Lit! Festival Regional MFA Reading Series, Spokane WA, 2017
“Hammering the Cramps: Craft, Revision, and the Nontraditional Form,” UIGEC 2017
“Temporal Bodies: Time, Memory, and Conception in Creative Nonfiction,” UIGEC 2016
Hemingway Festival Occasional Reading Series, UI, 2016
OTHER PROFESSIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Freelance Writer/Editor, Los Angeles CA, 2011-2015
Content Editor, Social Icing LLC, San Diego CA, 2011-2013
REFERENCES UPON REQUEST