Writing

1992

Editorial director, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (prior positions include director of media relations, reporter/producer for SCAD-TV, sports information director, director of publications, director of communications, and editor of The Chronicle); meteorologist/reporter; WJCL (ABC), WTGS (Fox), Savannah, Georgia; anchor/meteorologist/reporter; WJXT (CBS), Jacksonville, Florida; on-air personality; KIX 96.5 Radio, Savannah, Georgia; managing editor; The Georgia Guardian, Savannah, Georgia; reporter/host; WNEG-TV and Radio, Toccoa, Georgia; production Assistant; CNN Southeast Bureau, Atlanta, Georgia

Earning additional academic credentials

Kappa Tau Alpha induction, USC research paper competition award, American Press Institute Minority Journalism Educator's Fellowship, Wayne State University Summer Doctoral Seminar finalist, numerous CASE Circle of Excellence and District III publications awards, Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange Program Grant, Savannah Business Journal's "40 under 40" Notable Savannahians, two Irene Ryan Award nominations, Georgia Association of Broadcasters Award of Merit

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Publications
Editor, "Visual Communication Research Designs" by Keith Kenney, Ph.D. (Routledge, 2008) Numerous pieces printed in The Chronicle and The Georgia Guardian

Presentations

• February 2011, Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference, Washington, D.C., panel: "Teaching writing at art colleges."
• August 2009, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Boston, Massachusetts, paper: "Teaching journalists how to navigate ethical dilemmas: A case study of ethics in the newsroom"
• June 2009, Porn Cultures: Regulation, Political Economy and Technology, Leeds, United Kingdom, paper: "Where the Web meets regulation: The case of Karen Fletcher"
• December 2008, Cultural Representations of the Cold War, Osnabrück, Germany, panel chair: "Propaganda, ideology and censorship"
• February 2008, CASE District III annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, panel: "Strategic Writing for College Publications"

"It is incredibly fulfilling to me to help guide students through college and into their chosen career. The students in my classes are talented, funny, engaged and interesting. They inspire me to research more, write more, and find new creative ways of working with the course material."

• WRIT 210 Promotional Writing
• WRIT 220 Writing for the Web
• WRIT 255 Business and Professional Writing
• WRIT 322 Writing About Place
• WRIT 345 News Writing and Editing
• WRIT 430 Media Ethics
• WRIT 703 Writing and New Media
• WRIT 725 Persuasive Writing
• WRIT 743 Business and Professional Writing
• WRIT 773 Promotional Writing

"I'm interested in the future of writing - everything from how to adapt traditional narrative forms to the online culture to how to address important issues in 140 characters. Writers have more opportunities than ever before and I want to help new writers find their voice and make their way."

2010

Visiting writer, Harlaxton Summer Writing Program, Harlaxton College, England, 2011; adjunct assistant professor of writing studies and composition, School for University Studies, Hofstra University, 2009; graduate teaching assistant, English department, The University of Memphis, 2007-2008; teacher, fiction and creative nonfiction writing workshops, The Lausanne Young Writers Symposium, 2007-2008; judge, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, 2009-present; book reviewer, Publishers Weekly, 2008-present

The Graduate Research Award, English Department, The University of Memphis, 2009; Graduate Assistantship Award, The University of Memphis, 2008; Departmental Concentration Award, Creative Nonfiction, The University of Memphis, 2008; Donovan Travel Enrichment Grant, The University of Memphis, 2008

National Books Critics Circle, 2010-Present; The Association of Writers & Writing Programs, 2009-Present

Fiction and creative nonfiction

• "Dog People," The South Carolina Review, Volume 44.2, Fall 2011.
• "The Auctioneers," Cream City Review, Volume 35.2, Fall 2011.
• "Breakfast." Fast Forward, Volume 3, Summer 2010.
• "You Could." Fast Forward, Volume 3, Summer 2010.
• "Children." Opium Magazine Online, Spring 2010.

Over 40 interviews and reviews, including:

• "Still Kicking: PW Talks with Steve Earle." Publishers Weekly. 21 March, 2011.
• PW Talks with Barb Johnson." Publishers Weekly. 28 Sept. 2009.
• Volt: Stories, by Alan Heathcock, Publishers Weekly, 03 Jan. 2011.
• The Illumination, by Kevin Brockmeier, Publishers Weekly, 25 Oct. 2010.
• Nashville Chrome, by Rick Bass. Publishers Weekly, 26 July 2010.
• The Imperfectionists: a Novel, by Tom Rachman, Publishers Weekly, 30 Nov. 2009.
• South of Broad, by Pat Conroy. Publishers Weekly, 1 June 2009.
• The Theory of Light and Matter, by Andrew Porter. Publishers Weekly, 11 Aug. 2008.
• The Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson. Publishers Weekly, 3 Nov. 2008.
• Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by His Father, by Ernesto Guevara Lynch. Publishers Weekly, 3 Nov. 2008.
• I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia, by John Mole. Publishers Weekly, 13 Oct. 2008.
• The Yazoo Blues, by John Pritchard. Publishers Weekly, 18 Aug. 2008.
• Gorgeous George: the Outrageous Bad-boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture, by John Capouya. Publishers Weekly, 7 Jul. 2008.

"All my favorite writers, all my best teachers, and all the students before me."

• WRIT 177 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 277 Nonfiction Writing II
• WRIT 377 Nonfiction Writing III
• WRIT 350 Writing the Critical Review
• WRIT 743 Business and Professional Writing
• WRIT 713 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 723 Nonfiction Writing II
• WRIT 744 Writing the First Chapter
• WRIT 753 Freelance Writing for Publication
• WRIT 763 The Publishing Process

lpgriffith.com

2005

Assistant Professor of Writing, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania; Lecturer and Writing Consultant, Colorado School of Mines; Fiction Editor. DIVIDE, a nationally distributed journal of letters and ideas, University of Colorado; publications coordinator, Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Berkeley, California; marketing editor, The Denver Quarterly, University of Denver; associate editor, Bastard Review, San Francisco

• Publications Prize, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities (for the book Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places)
• Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for Literary Achievement
• Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, for researching the book This Ain't No Holiday Inn: Beats, Punks, and Fugitives at New York's Notorious Chelsea Hotel
• Lock Haven University Foundation Grant, Pennsylvania Writers' Reading Series
• Outstanding Faculty Member in the Department of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, Award given by The Order of Omega
• First Prize, University of Denver Graduate Fiction Contest
• Colorado Council on the Arts Project Grant for Denver Quarterly's 40th Anniversary Issue ($2000)

Associated Writing Programs

Books

• Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places, (University Press of Colorado)
• Spheres of Awareness: A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art (University Press of America)

Articles
More than 70 articles, essays, short stories, and book reviews.

"Never having planned to become a teacher, I was first inspired to teach by the need to make a living. But now I relish it. The philosopher Alan Watts stressed how delightful it was for people who 'get paid for what they love to do.' I couldn't agree more."

• WRIT 410 Literary Journalism
• WRIT 480 Writing Portfolio
• WRIT 713 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 725 Persuasive Writing

"Personal honesty is vital to writing personal essays and memoirs. Being ruthlessly candid about one's own motivations, assumptions, weaknesses, biases and self-deceptions actually 'frees up' writers psychologically. This adds emotional breadth and depth to their work, which readers sense and appreciate. And it helps readers to open up to their own self-honesty."

2009

Visiting Professor, NYU; Lecturer, Columbia University; Instructor, 92nd Street Y, NYC

Novels translated into 15 languages

Novels: Dashiell Hammett Award, Rosa, Semana Negra, 2006; Editor's Choice, New York Times, Shadow and Light, 2010; Best Books of 2009, January Magazine, Shadow and Light; Best Books of 2005, January Magazine, Rosa; Best Books of 2009, Audiofile, RosaOther: Fulbright Scholar, 1991; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1990; President's Fellow, Columbia University, 1988-1991
Outstanding Reviews: NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Toronto Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, Book List, Book Forum, California Literary Review, Library Journal, among others.

Blue Hill Troupe, NYC, former member of Board of Directors; Actors' Equity Association; Authors' Guild; Yale Whiffenpoofs of 1986 and Alumni Association

• Novels: The Second Son, Shadow and Light (FSG); Rosa, The Book of Q, The Overseer (Crown/Random House)
• Short form: "Trying John Scopes", I Wish I'd Been There (Doubleday); "Santa Muerta," (Strand); Op-Eds and reviews
• Panelist: LA Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, USA; Le Salon du Livres, Paris, France; Semana Negra, Gijon, Spain; Noir in Festival, Courmayeur, Italy; Octava Feria del Libro en el Zocalo, Mexico City, Mexico; Los Angeles Expo, Los Angeles, USA
• Performance: Soloist with New York City Pops, Carnegie Hall, Harrisburg Symphony, Albany Symphony; Off-Broadway: Fermat's Last Tango, Fermat

"My central interest is to teach people how to express themselves, and in particular how to write effectively. As a novelist, I have a real grounding in the nature of writing - language, structure, and narrative. These apply on all levels. They are the fundamentals of expression from basic composition to the more advanced forms of writing. At its heart, writing is storytelling. I find it no less compelling to teach whether it comes in the one-paragraph form or in the novel.

"I am also committed to teaching the business of the profession. Writers must understand how to navigate through the world of publishers, editors, and agents, and I bring a seasoned eye on all those fronts to the classroom."

• WRIT 205 Writing for the Arts I
• WRIT 322 Writing about Place
• WRIT 350 Writing the Critical Review
• WRIT 425 Autobiography and Memoir

"Artist is a term that gets tossed around a bit too much. The vast majority of us are craftspeople. We study technique, develop it, personalize it, and then apply that craft to the stories we hope to tell whether through words, paint, texture or performance. A central element of my work right now is place as character. And, as I'm focused on historical fiction and non-fiction, perhaps I look at time as character as well. But the object is to focus on the intimacy that defines both of these larger backdrops. The epic is most often found - and is at its most compelling - in the details of the smaller lives and relationships that define narrative. My hope is to make those lives real and thus vital."

jonathanrabb.com

2006

Visiting professor, Berry College; instructor, University of Delaware; claims representative, Farmers Insurance

SECAC, MLA, PCAS

Recent publications

• "'By far the best of the war books': Edith Wharton and The Book of the Homeless," in Edith Wharton and the Material Cultures of the Book, edited by Shafquat Towheed, (London: Macmillan Press), forthcoming.
• Review of Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America by Ioanna Laliotou, in Atlantikos: A Journal of Transatlantic Scholarship, Fall 2008.
• "Lessons from the Writer: Olive Senior's Over the Roofs of the World and the Interface of the Caribbean-Canadian Reader," in Beyond the Canebrakes: West Indian Women Writers in Canada, edited by Emily Allen Williams, (Trenton, N. J.: Africa World Press, 2008).

Recent presentations

• "Abstractions of War: Edith Wharton's Vision of France as Journalist, Editor, and Novelist," SECAC, Richmond, VA, October 2010.
• "Secrets, Thresholds, and Doors: Edith Wharton, Manhattan's Original Gossip Girl," SCAD Liberal Arts Lecture Series, Atlanta, March 2010.
• "The Significance of Design: The Threshold as Symbol in Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses and in Selected Works of Her Fiction," SECAC, Mobile, AL, October 2009.
• "Olive Senior and the Interface of the Caribbean-Canadian Reader," International Conference on Caribbean Literature, St. Lucia, November 2007.

"I learn in order to teach; I teach in order to learn."

• WRIT 177 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 277 Nonfiction Writing II
• WRIT 425 Autobiography and Memoir
• WRIT 713 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 723 Nonfiction Writing II
• CREA 157 Poetry Writing
• CREA 178 The Short Story
• ENGL 123 Composition
• ENGL 124 Composition and Literature

2009

Professor, creative writing and English, Georgia State University and Agnes Scott College; editor and instructional designer, eLearning Group, Bellsouth Telecommunications; instructor, Maebashi West High School, Maebashi, Japan

Founded arts and literature journal, New South; forthcoming publication of first novel, Big in Japan

"Distinguished Mystery Story of 2009" in The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 for "For the Love of Mary Hooks" (Published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2009); The storySouth Million Writers Award: Notable Stories of 2008 for "Big in Japan"; winner, Atlanta Magazine Short Story Contest (2008) for "You Can Have it All"

AWP

Recent publications include -

SHORT STORIES

• "Spatial Disorientation" Forthcoming in Glimmer Train (2012)
• "50 Views of the Man Who Lives Across the Street, or Lime, Sand, and Water" DIAGRAM (Issue 10.6/December 2010)
• "In which Sadie runs off to India to find out what the big deal is" Expecting Goodness and Other Stories, Hub City, Ed. Michael C. Curtis (January 2010)
• "I Wanna Be Your Fan" Storyglossia (Issue 36 - October 2009)
• "The Uncertainty Principle" (in collaboration w/ Davin Malasarn, et al.) Opium Magazine (October 2009)
• "For the Love of Mary Hooks" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (May 2009)
• "The Books of Austen and Bronte" Dots on a Map: Stories from Small Towns, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, Ed. Katey Schultz (May 2009)
• "Soon Will Be the Breath of Day" XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentric Lives of Women, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, Ed. S. Craig Renfroe, Jr. (May 2009)
• "You Can Have It All" Atlanta Magazine (December 2008)
• "Earthrise" Smokelong Quarterly (Issue 23 - December 2008)
• "Big in Japan: The Short Story" Thuglit (Issue 28 - Oct/Nov 2008)
• "Danny Dove's Guide to Method Acting" Stars Fell, Hub City Writers Project, Eds. Jeremy Jones and Betsy Wakefield Teter (Fall 2008)
• "Walking on the Moon" Glimmer Train Stories (Spring 2008)

NONFICTION AND ACADEMIC

• "State of Wonder: Upon Listening Again to Glenn Gould's Interpretation of Bach's 'Prelude No. 1 in C Major'" Forthcoming in The Collagist, (Issue 21/April 2011)
• "A Way Outta No Way: A Means to Literacy," Scribe (December 2010)
• "On Revision" Glimmer Train Bulletin 46 (November 2010)

PRESENTATIONS

• "You Can Have It All" New Voices Conference: Maps and Boundaries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (September 27, 2007)
• "Publishing the ATL" 2007 AWP Conference (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs), Atlanta, Georgia (March 1, 2007)
• "A Way Outta No Way: Ms. Rain Meet Paulo Freire - Using Sapphire's Push to Understand How Personal Experience and Community Can Be Used As a Means to Reengage Composition Students," New Voices Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (October 22, 2005)

"Love of writing, literature and storytelling."

• ENGL 123 Composition
• ENGL 169 Today's Classics: 1945-Present
• CREA 162 Fiction Writing I
• CREA 178 The Short Story
• WRIT 255 Business & Professional Writing
• WRIT 713 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 723 Nonfiction Writing II
• WRIT 753 Freelance Writing for Publication

"My love of writing grew out of my love of reading: great books, bad books, big books and little books. I read everything. And in each book, I recognized that everyone had a story to tell. So I began to tell my own. Narrative helps us as human beings order the chaos of our lives until we find recognizable patterns and shapes, until we begin to make sense of the anarchy. It is through narrative that I seek to understand what it means to be human."

2000

Books staff, Popmatters.com

SCAD press release:

• "SCAD Ivy Hall hosts 'Beyond Print - Writing in the Digital Age' workshop"

Society of Technical Communication

Publications

• "Storytelling, Narration, and the Who I Am Story" Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2. Eds. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Parlour Press, 2011.
• "Nalo Hopkinson and the Reinvention of Science Fiction." Beyond the Canebreaks: West Indian Women Writers in Canada. Ed. Emily Allen Williams. African World Press. 2008.

Presentations

• "Storytelling in the Digital Age." Georgia Conference on Information Literacy. Savannah, GA October 2010
• "Blogging, Information Literacy, and the College Classroom." Georgia Conference on Information Literacy. Savannah, GA October 2008
• "Nalo Hopkinson and the Reinvention of Science Fiction." International Conference on Caribbean Literature. St. Lucia, November 2008
• "Ethics, Technology, and Plagiarism in the Twenty First Century" Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA October 2007
• "The Home, Housework, and Technical Communication" Southeastern Women's Studies Association, Chattanooga, TN March 2007
• "The Environment, Science Fiction, and the End of the World." PCA/ACA Conference, Atlanta, GA April 2006
• "Time Travel and Construction of Identity in Octavia Butler's Kindred." Communities in Crisis Conference, Columbia, SC, April 2005
• "Walter Crane, Socialism, and the Development of Children's Literature in Victorian England" Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Augusta, GA, March 2005.
• "Rereading Orientalism: Japan, Great Britain and the Visual Arts." National Association for Humanities Education Conference, Richmond, VA, February 2005.

"I love working with students and helping them achieve their dreams. When students email me or come into class and tell me about a publication, an internship, or a job offer, I'm always so proud of them. And I like knowing that I helped make some of these opportunities possible. I love seeing students grow as writers and people and helping them find new ways to express themselves.

"In ENGL 123, many students start the class with a little apprehension, but over the course of ten weeks, most find that writing can be a lot of fun and is simply another form of artistic expression.

"Helping a student find his or her voice, whether in ENGL 123 or a graduate writing class, is part of what makes teaching such a wonderful and fulfilling experience."

• ENGL 123 Composition
• WRIT 205 Writing for the Arts
• WRIT 210 Promotional Writing
• WRIT 220 Writing for the Web
• WRIT 255 Business and Professional Writing
• WRIT 355 Writing for New Media
• WRIT 703 Writing for New Media
• WRIT 725 Persuasive Writing
• WRIT 743 Business and Professional Writing
• WRIT 773 Promotional Writing

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2011