STEVEN J. STEWART
(Information current as of October, 2007)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Creative Writing, Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL), 2003
• Specialization in poetry with a secondary emphasis in American literatureM.A., English, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), 1999
• Dissertation: Sleeping with an Insomniac: Collection of original poetry
(Director: David Kirby)
• Emphasis in creative writingB.A., English, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), 1996
• Thesis: Misreading the Hidden Prayers: Collection of original poetry
(Director: Lance Larsen)
AWARDS
- Idaho Humanities Council Research Fellowship (for work on the writing of Mexican-Uruguayan poet Eduardo Milán), 2007
- PEN-USA Translation Award: Finalist (for Devoured by the Moon: Selected Poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada), 2005
- National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Translation (for translation of the work of Spanish poet Ángel Crespo), 2005
- American Literary Translators Association Translation Fellowship, 2003
- Pudding House National Looking Glass Chapbook Competition: Finalist, Fall 2003
- John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award: First Place, judged by Denise Duhamel, 2002
- John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award: Honorable Mention, judged by Campbell McGrath, 2001
- Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition: Honorable Mention, Poetry, 2000
PUBLICATIONS & WORK PERFORMED
Translated Works
- Microfictions. Translated from the Spanish of Ana María Shua. University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming 2008)
- Co-translation of Robert Duncan’s Bending the Bow into Spanish (along with Antonio Ochoa), to be published by Ediciones Igitur of Barcelona (forthcoming 2008)
- The House of Bernarda Alba. Translated from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca (performed by the Brigham Young University–Idaho Theatre Department, Winter Semester 2007)
- Fernando de Rojas Asleep on His Own Hand (Chapbook). Translated from the Spanish of Rafael Ballesteros. Toad Press (2007)
- Sixty poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Everything is Connected: Selected
- Poems and Essays of Eduardo Milán. Ed. Antonio Ochoa. Word Power Press (Edinburgh; forthcoming 2007)
- Rafael Pérez Estrada: Selection, Edition, and Translation by Steven J. Stewart (Chapbook). Ayuntamiento de Rincón de la Victoria, Spain (2005)
- Devoured by the Moon: Selected Poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Hanging Loose Press (2004)
Translations in Journals and Anthologies
- “Estimada Sra. Dear Abby.” Mark Yakich. The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (forthcoming 2008)
- Two poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Hanging Loose (forthcoming 2007)
- “Ballad of the Carrot Girl.” Margarito Cuéllar forthcoming in 2007 in two separate anthologies to be published by Firewheel Editions on the prose poem
- Selected “Aerolites” of Carlos Edmundo de Ory forthcoming in 2007 in two separate anthologies to be published by Firewheel Editions on the prose poem
- Three microfictions of Ana María Shua. Alimentum (forthcoming 2007)
- Excellent language, excellent]. Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Circumference (forthcoming 2007)
- Three poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Connecticut Review (forthcoming 2007)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. cold drill 37 (2007)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. Quarter After Eight 13 (2007)
- “Blind in Saint Peter’s.” Ángel Crespo. Literature and Belief 26:1 (2007)
- Selected “Aerolites” of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Absinthe: New European Writing 7 (2007)
- “Rumor in the Court.” Ana María Shua. Quick Fiction 10 (Fall 2006)
- Nine microfictions of Ana María Shua. Hanging Loose 89 (Fall 2006)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. CUE 3:2 (Summer 2006)
- Two poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Prairie Schooner 80:2 (Summer 2006)
- “Straschnitz, 1924.” Mario Virgilio Montañez. Sirena 2006:2 (Summer 2006)
- Three poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Turnrow 6:1 (Winter 2006)
- “A Morning in Northern Seoul.” Wonchul Shin (co-translated with Scott Slovic and the author). St. Ann’s Review (Winter 2006)
- Seven poems of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Bat City Review 2 (Winter 2006)
- “Pillow.” Wonchul Shin (co-translated with Scott Slovic and the author). Runes: A Review of Poetry 4 (Fall 2005)
- [This one goes out to the martyrs of art]. Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Divide 3 (Fall 2005)
- Two poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). The Literary Review (Fall 2005)
- Five poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Literal 3 (Fall 2005)
- Four poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). Hotel Amerika 4 (Fall 2005)
- “Fernando de Rojas Asleep on his Own Hand.” Rafael Ballesteros. Absinthe: The New European Writing 4 (Fall 2005)
- Six poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). The New Orleans Review (Fall 2005)
- Two poems of Margarito Cuéllar. Bitter Oleander 11:2 (Fall 2005)
- Two poems of Iván Oñate. Apalachee Review 55 (Fall 2005)
- Two poems of Margarito Cuéllar. Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics 3 (Fall 2005)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism (Summer 2005)
- “Silence.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Read on the Australian Broadcasting Company’s program Poetica (Summer 2005)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. Bitter Oleander 11:1 (Spring 2005)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. Hanging Loose 86 (Spring 2005)
- “To Teresa of Avila.” Ángel Crespo. Literature and Belief (Summer 2005)
- Three poems of Eduardo Milán (co-translated with Patrick Madden). International Poetry Review 31:1 (Spring 2005)
- Selected “Aerolites” of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. jubilat 9 (Spring 2005)
- “The Eunuch’s Lamentation.” Margarito Cuéllar. Folio 20:1 (Spring 2005)
- Two poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Hotel Amerika 3 (Fall 2004)
- “Silence.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. The Poetry of Men’s Lives: An International Anthology. Eds. Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas. University of Georgia Press (2004)
- Two poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. The Poetry of Men’s Lives: An International Anthology. Eds. Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas, University of Georgia Press (2004)
- Two poems of Juan Carlos Galeano. Hostos Review 1 (Fall 2004)
- “Viva Vox.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Connecticut Review 29:2 (Fall 2004)
- “The Student.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. International Poetry Review 30:1 (Fall 2004)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. Hunger Mountain 5 (Fall 2004)
- Two poems of Margarito Cuéllar. Sleeping Fish 0.5 (Fall 2004)
- Two poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Poetry Daily (August 17, 2004)
- Eight poems of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. New Orleans Review 28:1 (Summer 2004)
- Selected “Aerolites” of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics 2 (Summer 2004)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics 2 (Summer 2004)
- “This Has No Title.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Circumference 2 (Summer 2004)
- Three poems of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. JACK 2:4 (Summer 2004)
- Five poems of Ángel Crespo. Absinthe: The New European Writing 2 (Winter 2004)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Café Irreal 11 (Winter 2004)
- “Silence.” Iván Oñate. Runes: A Review of Poetry 3 (Winter 2004)
- “Tattoos.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. Harper’s 307:1840 (September 2003)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. Circumference 1 (Fall 2003)
- Two poems of Ángel Crespo. eXchanges 1 (Fall 2003)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Tampa Review 25 (Fall 2003)
- Three poems of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Seneca Review 33:1 (Spring 2003)
- Two poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Spinning Jenny 7 (Spring 2003)
- “The Exiles.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. Literature and Belief 23:1 (Spring 2003)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Atlanta Review 9:2 (Spring 2003)
- Three poems of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Atlanta Review 9:2 (Spring 2003)
- “The Party.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. International Poetry Review 29:1 (Spring 2003)
- Ten poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Nicaraguan Academic Journal 4:1 (Spring 2003)
- Selected “Aerolites” of Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Hotel Amerika 2 (Spring 2003)
- Four poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Apalachee Review 52-53 (Spring 2003)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Crazyhorse 63 (Spring 2003)
- “Tattoos.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. Poetry Daily (February 28, 2003)
- “A Brief Report of What Happened.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Café Irreal 9 (Spring 2003)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Hanging Loose 81 (Spring 2003)
- Two poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Quarter After Eight 9 (Spring 2003)
- “Tattoos.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. jubilat 6 (Spring 2003)
- “The Flowering Whore.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. Runes: A Review of Poetry 2 (Winter 2002)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Star*Line (Fall 2002)
- “A Certain Asymmetry.” Rafael Pérez Estrada. Blue Unicorn 26:1 (Fall 2002)
- “Propositions.” Carlos Edmundo de Ory. sidereality 1:4 (Fall 2002)
- Three poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Café Irreal 8 (Fall 2002)
- Two poems of Rafael Pérez Estrada. Hanging Loose 80 (Fall 2002)
Poetry Chapbooks
- Distilled/Appropriated/Translated: Repropositions from the Bodhicaryavatara of Santideva. Poetic Inhalation (2004)
- Cynthia, in the Moment of Her Dying. Pudding House Publications (2004)
Poems
- Five poems with accompanying Spanish translations. Revistatlática de Poesía (Spain; forthcoming 2007)
- Three poems. Drunken Boat (forthcoming 2007)
- Three poems. Pindeldyboz (2007)
- “Vortex Postulates.” 5_Trope 21 (Fall 2006)
- “Huidobro.” Moria 8:3 (Fall 2005)
- Five poems with accompanying Spanish translations. Sirena 2006:2 (Summer 2006)
- “Rose Whitley Discovers Make-up at Age 14.” Broadside from Mercutio Press (2005)
- “The Village of Reason.” In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself. Vol. 6 (2005)
- “Two Years.” Disquieting Muses (Fall 2004)
- “The Only Thing Moving.” Moria 6:4 (Spring 2004)
- “My Eternal Soul.” Eratio: Postmodern Poetry 3 (Spring 2004)
- “Contextures.” Quarter After Eight 10 (Spring 2004)
- “Youth of Tomorrow.” Tin Lustre Mobile 4:1 (Spring 2004)
- Three poems. Ygdrasil (March 2004)
- Three poems. Word For/Word 5 (Winter 2004)
- “So Much Trouble in the World.” Diagram 3:4 (Fall 2003)
- “Those Dying Days.” Moria 6:2 (Fall 2003)
- Three poems. JACK Magazine 7 (Fall 2003)
- Two poems. Get Underground (July 2003)
- Two poems. sidereality 1:2 (May-June 2002)
- “I Want to Get Closer to You.” Apalachee Review 50 (Fall 2001)
- Three poems. Xconnect 6:1 (June 2001)
- “First Coffin Sketch: Rebecca.” Quarter After Eight 7 (Spring 2001)
- Five poems. JACK Magazine 3 (Spring 2001)
- “Taming the Bull.” Gumball Poetry 6 (Winter 2000)
- “An Imaginative Recapture of Certain Key Elements.” Second International Anthology on Paradoxism (2001)
Reviews
- Larry Rigby’s The Jäger Artist. Irreantum 8:1 (2007)
- Charles Blackstone’s The Week You Weren’t There. sidereality 3:2 (Spring 2004)
- Rob Mclennan’s search and rescue and Michael Rothenberg’s Unhurried Vision. sidereality 3:2 (Spring 2004)
- Cheryl Pallant’s Into Stillness. sidereality 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- October Rush (Ed. Doyle Wilmoth) sidereality 3:1 (Winter 2004)
- Barbara Guest’s Forces of Imagination. sidereality 2:4 (Fall 2003)
- Jason Heroux’s Leaving the Road. sidereality 2:4 (Fall 2003)
- Sandy McIntosh’s Between Earth and Sky. sidereality 2:3 (Summer 2003)
- MTC Cronin’s Bestseller. sidereality 2:3 (Summer 2003)
- Jonathan Hayes’ St. Paul Hotel. sidereality 2:2 (Spring 2003)
- Best American Poetry 2002 (Eds. Robert Creeley and David Lehman). sidereality 2:1 (Winter 2003)
- Camille Martin’s Sesame Kiosk. sidereality 2:1 (Winter 2003)
- Joel Chace’s o-d-e. sidereality 1:4 (Fall 2002)
- Rodney Jones’s Elegy for the Southern Drawl. The Southeast Review 22:1 (Spring 2002)
- Aidan Thompson’s Particle and Probability. sidereality 1:3 (Summer 2002)
- Nick Flynn’s Some Ether. sidereality 1:1 (March-April 2002)
- David Berman’s Actual Air. The Southeast Review 21:2 (Fall 2001)
Other
- “Roland Barthes, Michael Palmer, and Reading Degree Zero.” (Criticism) to be reprinted in Boxkite (forthcoming 2008)
- “E-panel: Literary Translators.” (Panel Participant) Emerging Writers Network (Summer 2007)
- “Walking a Tightrope: The Complexities of Literary Translation.” (Essay) Perspective 7:1 (Spring 2007)
- “How Translating Makes Me a Better Creative Writing Teacher.” (Essay) Translation Review 71 (2006)
- Interview with Eduardo Milán (in English and Spanish). Literal 3 (Fall 2005)
- “The Appropriation of Frank O’Hara.” (Criticism) Poetics.ca 4 (Fall 2004)
- Interview with Michael Arnzen. sidereality 2:2 (Spring 2003)
- “Playing with Jacques.” (Fiction) Henry Street 11:1 (Spring 2002)
- “Roland Barthes, Michael Palmer, and Reading Degree Zero.” (Criticism) Moria 4:2 (Fall 2001)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University–Idaho, 2005 to present
• ENG 352 Poetry
• ENG 316C Technical communication
• ENG 250 Introduction to literature
• ENG 218 Introduction to creative writing
• ENG 111 Freshman composition
Writing Specialist, University of Nevada, Reno, 2003 to 2005
• ENG 307–608 Combined graduate and undergraduate poetry workshop
• ENG 345 Ethnic literature
• ENG 304 American literature and culture
• ENG 282 Introduction to language and literature
• ENG 101–102 Freshman composition
• ENG 1 Developmental writing
Graduate Instructor, Florida State University, 2000 to 2003
• LIT 2020 Sophomore literature survey
• ENC 1142 Freshman creative writing
• ENC 1101–1102 Freshman composition
Graduate Instructor and Adjunct Faculty, Brigham Young University, 1997 to 2000
• ENG 115 Freshman Composition
ADMINISTRATIVE & SERVICE EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University–Idaho, 2005 to present
• Advise thirty students each semester
• Serve on creative writing committee
• Coordinate English Department faculty reading series
• Oversee the Salt Lake City university internship hub for the English Department
• Act as production dramaturg for a theatre department production of Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba
Assistant Director, Core Writing Program, University of Nevada, Reno, 2003-2005
Interim Co-Director, Core Writing Program, University of Nevada, Reno, Spring 2004
• Assisted with new instructor orientation
committees
• Hired new instructors
• Met with students and instructors as needed
• Evaluated placement and credit-by-examination portfolios
• Developed the curriculum of the Core Writing Program
• Served on the Core Writing Committee, Developmental Writing Subcommittee, Public Events Committee, and various search
• Assisted in revamping the Core Writing Program website
• Coordinated a project to solicit, assemble, and organize classroom teaching materials for University of Nevada, Reno instructors and interested instructors nationwide
Assistant to English Department Chair, Florida State University, 2002 to 2003
• Edited Ellipsis, a monthly newsletter for the English department
• Edited the annual English department alumni newsletter
• Represented the English department at university-sponsored events
• Performed research for the department chair
PRESENTATIONS
Academic Presentations
- “Using New Media to Teach and Otherwise Approach Translation.” American Literary Translators Annual Conference, Richardson, TX, November 2007
- Panel on Creative Writing. Brigham Young University–Idaho English Department Pre-professional Conference, Rexburg, ID, November 2007
- “How to Use Adobe InDesign.” Brigham Young University–Idaho English Department Faculty Workshop, Rexburg, ID, July 2007
- “Iraq and Democracy.” Brigham Young University–Idaho College Democrats Meeting, Rexburg, ID, March 2007
- “Using a Wiki to Teach Literature.” Brigham Young University–Idaho English Department Faculty Workshop, Rexburg, ID, January 2007
- “How to Write Like an Avant-gardist.” Brigham Young University–Idaho English Academic Society Presentation, Rexburg, ID, January 2006
- Panel on Publishing Writing. Brigham Young University–Idaho English Department Pre-professional Conference, Rexburg, ID, November 2006
- “Why I Like Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf.” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference: Interpreting Cultures, Rexburg, ID, June 2006
- “Literary Translation: A Primer.” Brigham Young University–Idaho English Department Lyceum, Rexburg, ID, March 2006
- “Translation: An Assertion.” Associated Writing Programs Conference (Pedagogy Forum), Austin, TX, March 2006
- Panel on Professional and Creative Writing. Brigham Young University–Idaho English Department Pre-professional Conference, Rexburg, ID, November 2005
- “How Translating Makes Me a Better Creative Writing Teacher.” American Literary Translators Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2004
- “Connecting with College: Writing Across the Curriculum and Over the Years,” Teacher In-Service for K-12 Educators, University of Nevada, Reno, February 2004
- “Things People Say in Poetry Workshop, and What Those Things Say about the Poetry Workshop.” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2003
- “The Bumptious Girl and the Roughish Root: Comparing Translations of Exeter Book Riddle 28.” Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference: Crossing Medieval Boundaries, Tallahassee, FL, September 2002
- “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: The Agony of Christianity, the Christianity of Writing.” English Graduate Organization Conference: Theoretical Misfits, Gainesville, FL, April 2002
- “Teaching the Five-Canon Approach as an Alternative to Workshopping in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Classroom.” Associated Writing Programs Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2002
- “Lana Turner and the Camp Poetics of Frank O’Hara.” 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 2001
- “Playing with Jacques: Misreadings and Misrepresentations.” Intercollegiate Conference on Language and Literature, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 1998
Readings
- Faculty Reading, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID, March 2007
- Faculty Reading, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID, November 2005
- Two readings, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, Sept. 2005
- Invited Reading, Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno, NV, May 2005
- Bilingual Reading of the work of Ángel Crespo, American Literary Translators Association
- Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2004
- Fellows Reading, American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Cambridge,
- MA, November 2003
- Bilingual Reading of the work of Rafael Pérez Estrada, American Literary Translators
- Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA, November 2003
- Warehouse Reading Series, Tallahassee, FL, April 2002
- Campus Poetry Reading Series, Brigham Young University, March 1999
- Brigham Young University Graduate Student Association Conference, February 1999
EDITING
- Associate Editor, sidereality, 2002 to 2005
- Fiction Editor, The Southeast Review, 2001 to 2002
- Associate Fiction Editor, The Southeast Review, 2000 to 2001
- Creative Editor, 2000 issue of La Marca Hispánica, 2000
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