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Office: Old Main #217
Knox College Box #96
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401
email: nregiaco@knox.edu
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Education: |
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MASTER OF FINE ARTS, 1998
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, Iowa
Creative
Writing—Poetry. Critical Thesis: “Negative
Capability in Hart Crane’s Voyages.” Creative Thesis:
“Foreign Body”; Thesis Chairperson: Jorie Graham.
BACHELOR OF ARTS, 1996
Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia
Major in English
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Academic Positions: |
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING
Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. January 2004 to Present.
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING
Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. September 2002 to June 2003.
VISITING LECTURER IN CREATIVE WRITING
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. September 2001 to June 2002.
VISITING LECTURER IN ENGLISH
Università degli studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy. Winter 2001.
VISITING LECTURER IN ENGLISH
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Fall 1999.
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Summer 1998.
GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR IN RHETORIC
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. September 1996 to June 1998.
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Teaching Interests: |
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Creative Writing: Poetry and
Creative Non-Fiction.
Prosody.
Modern and Contemporary Poetry.
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Publications: |
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“Vitruvian Moon, “Black Shirt, “Defense of Singleton,” Copper Nickel, September 2007.
“Grotto to Sebastian,” New Orleans Review, Fall 2006.
“Grotto,” 14 Hills, Spring 2005.
“Adeste Fideles,” “Straw Tail,” Third Coast, Spring 2003.
“Plums of Damascus,” Phoebe, September 2001.
“First Confession,” “Song of Sons,” Denver Quarterly, Fall 1996.
“Trailways: From a Concord Station,” Artemis XVIII, March 1995.
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| Recognition: |
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Winner of 14 Hills’ 2005 Bambi Holmes Award for “Grotto.”
Nominee for a Pushcart Prize, 2003, 2004.
Fulbright Fellow, Vietri sul mare, Italy, 2000-2001.
James Michner-Paul Engle Fellow, University of Iowa, 1998-1999.
Finalist for the Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship, 1997.
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| Public Readings: |
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Collaborative Reading & Performance with Classical Gutiarist Colt Valenti, Knox College, October 2007
Copper Nickel 8 Release Party, Denver, Colorado, September 2007
Off-Knox, various venues, once per term since Fall 2004
Knox College, Caxton Club Reading, Fall 2003
Venice, Italy, Fulbright Presentation of Research, January 2001
Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, Tennessee, July 1999.
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, March 1998
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 1998
The Mill Restaurant & Bar, Talk Art, Iowa City, Iowa, 31 October 1997
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| Works in Progress: |
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Singleton (manuscript of poems)
Voice Human (manuscript of poems)
Finalist: New Issues Poetry Prize, 2008; Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, 2007; Sarabande's Kathryn A. Morton Prize, 2002.
Semifinalist: University of Wisconsin (twice), Alice James, Verse
Press, Crab Orchard, and Cleveland State University first book competitions
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