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Margaret Luongo

Education

• MFA, Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2001
• B.A., Drama, Catholic University of America

Teaching Interests

• The Short Story
• Creative Writing Practice
• Contemporary Fiction & Publishing
• Researched Creative Writing

Research Interests

• Short fiction
• Formal experimentation in prose
• Writing about art, mental illness, and theater/performance

Selected Publications

• “Fifty-three,” flash creative nonfiction, Five Points: A Journal of Literature & Art; Vol. 20, No.3, Summer 2021.
  
• “Interiors,” poetry, BORDERS, catalog of Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, 2020.
  
• "Right Now," lyric essay, Deep Beauty, ed. Rosemary Winslow, Katie Lee, Woodhall Press, March 2020.
• “Wilson and Love,” poetry, Poet Sounds anthology, ed. Gerry Lafemina, Christine Stroud, CityLit Press, November 2019.
• "Crawling Toward Authenticity," review of Alyssa Nutting’s Made for Love, The Cincinnati Review, May 2018.
• "," flash nonfiction, New Flash Fiction Review (NFFR), Issue #15, December 2018.
• "Functional Aesthetics," short fiction, anthology, A Very Angry Baby, Acre Books, Winter 2017.
• "Cutting a Window in the Self: Mindfulness and Mania," review, David Ebenbach’s Miss Portland; Fiction Southeast, Fall 2017.
• , LSU Press, 2016.
• "No Destination: Migrants in Crisis," review breach, by Olumide Popoola, Annie Holmes; Consequence Magazine, September 2016.
• "Envy and Soullessness in the Suburbs," review, Kathryn Davis' Duplex, The Cincinnati Review, Winter 2015
• Various Reviews, Interviews, & Short Fiction: Fiction Southeast 
• "A Note on the Type," The Southern Review, October 2015
• "Magnolia Grandiflora," Wraparound South, Winter 2015
• "Exile," The Rusty Toque, Winter 2015
• "Repatriation," Consequence on-line, December 2014
• "Three Portraits of Elaine Shapiro," Big Fiction, Summer 2014
• , The Cincinnati Review, Winter 2013
• "History of Art," Consequence, Winter 2013
• "" Memorious, Spring 2011
• "Girls Come Calling," The Cincinnati Review, Summer 2010
• "," GRANTA online, August 2010
• "Buoyant," New South, Summer 2008
• "If the Heart is Lean," North American Review, Jan/Feb. 2008
• , LSU Press, Fall 2008
• "Fine Arts," The Cincinnati Review, May 2007
• "What Nina Wants," Brilliant Corners, December 2005
• "Mrs. Fargo," FENCE, Fall 2005
• "Do That Everywhere," Hogtown Creek Review, Fall 2004
• "Pretty," Pushcart Prize XXVIII, Best of the Small Presses, 2004
• "Tea Set," Kalliope, Volume XXV No. 1, Spring 2003
• "Circus," The Montserrat Review, #7, Spring 2003
• "Chestnut Season," Jane, February 2003
• "Pretty," Tin House, #11, Spring 2002

Grants and Awards

• Hawthornden Fellowship, Midlothian, Scotland, June 2019
• Ohio Arts Council Creative Writing Residency at the Fine Arts Work Center, Summer 2009
• Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2008
• Ohio Arts Council Grant, 2007
• Pushcart Prize, 2004

Work in Progress

Margaret Luongo’s new story collection, History of Art, was published in March 2016 by LSU Press. She is currently working on a collection of essays about lost art and PTSD.