{"id":776,"date":"2012-01-02T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?page_id=776"},"modified":"2015-02-07T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:40:28","slug":"professional-details","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/professional-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton776\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fprofessional-details%2F&amp;text=Professional%20Details&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fprofessional-details%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/professional-details\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Book of Right and Wrong<\/span> (2010, Ohio State University Press)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Published Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Version&#8221; (<em>Battered Suitcase<\/em>, Fall 2010)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Book of Right and Wrong&#8221;* (<em>Roanoke Review<\/em>, 2009; reprinted <em>Weston Magazine<\/em>, Summer 2010)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Kate the Destroyer&#8221; (<em>The Pinch<\/em>, Fall 2008)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Was Jimmy Carter&#8221; (<em>Weston Magazine<\/em>, Winter 2007)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Beard of Bees&#8221; (<em>Painted Bride Quarterly<\/em>, 2007; reprinted <em>Weston Magazine<\/em>, Summer 2007)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Still Life with Dead Bird&#8221; (<em>Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry &amp; Prose<\/em>, 2006)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Depot Island&#8221; (<em>North Atlantic Review<\/em>, 2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Pushcart Prize nominee, 2010<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Live Stage Comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thrillingadventurehour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Thrilling Adventure Hour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Beyond Belief<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thrillingadventurehour.com\/wordpress\/pod-149\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;Basil&#8217;s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a> (November 2,\u00a02013) &#8211; Starring Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, and Bradley Whitford<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thrillingadventurehour.com\/wordpress\/pod-173\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;Better Red Than Dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a> (May 3, 2014) &#8211; Starring Marc Evan Jackson, Mark Gagliardi, and Timothy Omundson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Awards &amp; Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ohio State University Press Prize for Fiction (2010)<\/li>\n<li>Sewanee Writers&#8217; Conference, Peter Taylor Scholarship (2007)<\/li>\n<li>CT Council on Culture and Tourism, Fiction Fellowship (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry Campus (Fall 2014 &#8211; Present)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Media in America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Western Connecticut State University (Summer 2012 &#8211; Present)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">WestConn MFA in Professional &amp; Creative Writing<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate writing program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Westport Writers&#8217; Workshop (Fall 2009 &#8211; Fall 2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three weekly fiction workshops in 8-week quarterly sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>University of California at Los Angeles (Fall 2009- Spring 2011)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiple fiction courses in 10-week sessions for UCLA Extension School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M.F.A., Fiction Writing &amp; Literature, Bennington Writing Seminars (2005)<\/p>\n<p>B.S., Communications &amp; Film, Fitchburg State College (1994)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton776\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fprofessional-details%2F&amp;text=Professional%20Details&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fprofessional-details%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>TweetShareBooks The Book of Right and Wrong (2010, Ohio State University Press) Published Stories &#8220;Version&#8221; (Battered Suitcase, Fall 2010) &#8220;The Book of Right and Wrong&#8221;* (Roanoke Review, 2009; reprinted Weston Magazine, Summer 2010) &#8220;Kate the Destroyer&#8221; (The Pinch, Fall 2008) &#8220;I Was Jimmy Carter&#8221; (Weston Magazine, Winter 2007) &#8220;Beard of Bees&#8221; (Painted Bride Quarterly, 2007; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-776","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}