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BARBARA DIMMICK's CV

NOVELS:

HEART-SIDE UP. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, May 2002. Cloth.

IN THE PRESENCE OF HORSES. New York: Doubleday, 1998. Cloth.
London: Flamingo, 1998. Cloth. Paper.
New York: Picador, 1999. Paper.

Translations:
Die Pferde Zauberin. Munich: Paul List, 1998. Cloth.
Munich: Paul List, 1999. Paper.
Munich: Paul List, 1999. Book club.
Matkalla huomiseen. Helsinki: Gummerus, 1999. Cloth.
Natalies Heste. Copenhagen: Egmont, 1999. Cloth.
I hästars närhet. Trondheim: Bra Böcker, 2000. Paper.
W obecnoś koni. Krakow: Cibet, 2000. Paper.
Matkalla huomiseen. Helsinki: Gummerus, 2003. Paper.


SHORT FICTION:

“Shooting Tookey,” short story. THE COMPANY OF DOGS. New York: Doubleday, 1990.


ARTICLES:

“Claremont’s Writing Workshop.” PEDAGOGY JOURNAL, II: 1 (1995) 13-25.

“Guided Independence.” PEDAGOGY JOURNAL, II: 1 (1995) 89-97.

“A Rider Teaches Writing.” PEDAGOGY JOURNAL, I: 1 (1994) 3-8.

Between 1978 and 1985, approximately 30 articles, essays, interviews, and editorials in regional and trade periodicals, including AMERICAN FORESTS, THE CHRONICLE OF THE HORSE, EQUUS, FINE HOMEBUILDING, and others.


TEACHING:

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 2002 to 2006
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Courses Taught:
Senior Fiction Writing Honors Theses
Senior Workshop in Prose Fiction
Senior Seminar: Form and Theory of Fiction
Tutorials
Advanced Creative Writing – Fiction
Creative Writing - Introduction
First Year Writing

SAINT JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, April 2002
College of Saint Benedict Writer-in-Residence

INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS, April 2002
One-day Residency

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, October 2001
Thurber Fellow
Master Class for Poets and Fiction Writers

NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 1984-1997
Professor, Writing and Literature

Courses Taught:
Composition I and II
Survey of Literature
Special Studies in Genius and Creativity
Writing Workshop for Faculty
Graduate Internships


READINGS, LECTURES, and WORKSHOPS:

Dartmouth College. Hanover NH. August 2006. Alumni College. Fiction Writing Workshop.

NHWP. Claremont, NH. January 2005. Workshop: Emotion as character motivation.

Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. August 2005. Alumni College. Fiction Writing Workshop.

PEN New England North. Thetford, VT. November 2004. Remarks, “Thoughts on Point of View.”

New Hampshire Humanities Council. Newbury Public Library. Newbury, NH. 1 November 2004. Discussion, “Writer Meets Reader.”

Amos Fortune Forum. Jaffrey, NH. 6 August 2004. Lecture, “Novel One, Novel Two, Novel Three.”

Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. 25-31 July 2004. Alumni College. Fiction Writing Workshop.

Misty Valley Books. Chester, VT. 23 November 2003. Reading from HEART-SIDE UP.

Vermont Public Radio. Norwich, VT. 21 November 2003. Interview for VPR segment aired during ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

New Hampshire Public Television. Manchester, NH. 24 October 2003. Interview for NH OUTLOOK.

Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. 1 May 2003. Asian-American Writers’ Festival. Introduction, Li-Young Lee.

Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. 13 February 2003. Creative Writing Writers’ Series. Reading from novel-in-progress.

Shaw Public Library. Greenville, Maine. 25 August 2002. Reading from HEART-SIDE UP.

Hale Writers’ Conference. Newport, NH. July 2002, Revision workshop

New Hampshire Writers’ Project. Durham, NH. May 2002. Benefit reading from HEART-SIDE UP.

The Loft Writing Center. Minneapolis, MN. April 2002. Workshop, “Fear and Creativity.”

Thurber House. Columbus, Ohio. October 2001. Fellows Lecture, “On Writing the First Novel.”

New Hampshire Writers’ Project. Manchester, NH. March 2001. Writers’ Day conference. Workshop, “Plotting the Novel.”

PEN New England North. Hanover, NH. 17 March 2001. Panelist, “Fighting the Wars Over Narrative.”

PEN New England North. South Strafford, VT. February 2001. Remarks, “Twelve Questions that Drive a Writer Crazy.”


JURIES:

Seacoast Writers’ Conference. Chester, NH. Fiction Prize. May 2006.

Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. Undergraduate Writing Prize. March 2005.


AWARDS:

HEART-SIDE UP
OUTSTANDING WORK OF FICTION, 2003
New Hampshire Writers’ Project


FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

THURBER FELLOWSHIP, 2001
Thurber House

INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP, 2001
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

ARTIST’S DEVELOPMENT GRANT, 1996
Vermont Arts Council

DEVELOPMENT GRANT, 1996
NH Women in Higher Education


RESIDENCIES:

HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE International Writers’ Retreat
Edinburgh, Scotland
Scheduled for February 2007

HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE International Writers’ Retreat
Edinburgh, Scotland
Accepted for 2003, but unable to attend

UCROSS FOUNDATION
Ucross, WY
Five-week residency, 2003

DJERASSI
Woodside, CA
Accepted for 2002, but unable to attend

YADDO
Saratoga Springs NY
Six-week residency, 2000

HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
Edinburgh, Scotland
Four-week residency, 2000

MACDOWELL COLONY
Peterborough, NH
Six-week residency, 1999

VERMONT STUDIO
Johnson, Vermont
Two-week residency, 1997

HEDGEBROOK COTTAGES FOR WOMEN
Whidbey Island, Washington
Four-week residency, 1990


WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:

Dartmouth College. Fall Term, 2002. “Faculty Voice Workshop.”


EDUCATION:

MASTER OF ARTS. English/Fiction Writing, 1983
University of New Hampshire, Durham NH

BACHELOR OF ARTS. English, summa cum laude, 1976
University of New Hampshire

INSTRUCTOR’S CERTIFICATION. 1976
Morven Park International Equestrian Institute, Leesburg VA


MEMBERSHIPS:

ASSOCIATED WRITING PROGRAMS
AUTHORS’ GUILD
NEW HAMPSHIRE WRITERS’ PROJECT
PEN AMERICAN CENTER




selected works

Novels
HEART-SIDE UP
"...wonderfully engrossing and haunting..."
--Library Journal (starred review)
IN THE PRESENCE OF HORSES
“…a story of loss and grief…engrossing and thoughtful.”
--Booklist



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