Sarah Beth Childers
Assistant Professor
MFA, West Virginia University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
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Creative Nonfiction (lyric and narrative essays, memoir, linked essay collections, flash nonfiction, literary journalism)
Recent Courses Taught
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Advanced Creative Nonfiction
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Seminar in Creative Nonfiction: Hybrid Forms
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Seminar in Creative Nonfiction: Integrating Research into Personal Essays, Journalism, and Memoir
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Studies in Creative Nonfiction: Essay Collections
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Craft and Forms of Prose: Flash Nonfiction
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Writing the New Mexican Landscape
Selected Publications
Books:
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Prodigals: A Sister's Memoir. Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction. University of Georgia Press, 2023.
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Shake Terribly the Earth. Ohio University Press, 2013.
Journal Publications:
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"Candy Crane." Sweet: A Literary Confection. Forthcoming.
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"Checking." MiCRo. Publication of Cincinnati Review. 9 June 2021.
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“A Haunting.” Shenandoah. vol. 70, no. 1, Fall 2020.
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“What Happens When You Drown.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Issue 61, May 2019.
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“An Infestation.” Colorado Review. Spring 2018.
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“Beagle in the Road.” Superstition Review, no. 20, Fall 2017.
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"Grateful." Beautiful Things. 25 Sept. 2017.
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"A Hobo Like Me." Quiddity. 10.1. 2017.
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"Things Sad People Shouldn't Have."Pank 10.4. July-Aug. 2015.
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"Chariot's a-Comin'." Gravel. May 2015.
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"Portraits within Portraits." Guernica Daily. 30 April 2015.
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"Ghost Siblings." Beside the Point. Fall 2014.
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"Ten Years Ago." Brevity. Winter 2014.
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Shorn."Wigleaf: (Very) Short Fiction. 24 Sept. 2012.
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"Dear Wigleaf: Under the Night Heron Tree." Wigleaf: (Very) Short Fiction. 24 Sept. 2012.
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"Boat Stories: Three Generations." Tusculum Review 7 (2011): 175-184.
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"Garbage-Bag Charity." SNReview 10.2 (Summer 2008).
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"Red Ribbon." Paddlefish (2008): 18-21.
Anthology Publications:
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"Lydia." Walking the Line: An Anthology of Parkinson's Writing. Ed. Susan Brennan, Hal Sirowitz, and Minter Krotzer. Vol. 2, Fall 2021 edition. Parkinson's Poetry. Online.
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“Beaver Pond.” Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jessica Corey. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2019.
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"Ten Years Ago." Love and Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life. Ed. Nick Healy. North Mankato, MN: Switch Press, 2015: 128-131.
Craft Pieces:
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“Welcoming Our Ghosts Inside.” Online craft feature, Shenandoah. 1 April 2021.
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“Writing about Grief without Mentioning It.” Guest post, Superstition Review blog. 3 March 2018.
Textbook Chapter:
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“A Memoirist Teaches Narrative.” Who Teaches Writing? Ed. Joshua Daniel. Oklahoma State University Libraries, 2021.
Honors & Offices
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Nonfiction Editor, Cimarron Review
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Wildacres Artist Residency, Little Switzerland, NC, September 2019.
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Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY, June-July 2019.
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Hargis Fellowship, Doel Reed Center for the Arts, Taos, NM. Oklahoma State University. June 2018.
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Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship for creative writing at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2009-2010.