Remi Recchia
PhD Student, Creative Writing - Poetry
Bowling Green State University, MFA, 2018
Western Michigan University, BA, 2016
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing – Poetry
Creative Writing – Creative Nonfiction
Trans Poetics
Intersections of Christianity and hormone replacement therapy gender transition
Recent Courses Taught
ENGL 1113: Composition I
ENGL 1213: Composition II
ENGL 2513: Introduction to Creative Writing
Selected Publications
Books
Quicksand / Stargazing. Cooper Dillon Books, 2021.
Chapbooks
Sober. Red Bird Press, 2022.
Selected Journals: Poetry
“The Ostriches Bathe in Tulsa, Oklahoma,” Academy of American Poets, forthcoming
Two Poems,Juked,forthcoming
“Ekphrastic for Cheselden’s Skeleton, 1733,”Hamilton Arts & Letters, forthcoming
“Morning Fables,”Foothill Poetry Magazine, forthcoming
“Prosopagnosia Feels Like Looking Through a Tunnel and Landing in a Graveyard,”Harpur Palate, forthcoming
“Walking with My Lover to Bury Our Dead Fish,”Frontier Poetry, 2021
“Fire Eater, Premolar, Bone,”The Hunger, 2021
Two Poems,The Account, 2020
Fratercula Cirrhata, or Boy Crossing,”LandLocked, 2020
"Ghazal for a Business Trip,"Sleet Magazine, 2019
“Head Space,” Academy of American Poets, 2019
“After Heat,”Construction Literary Magazine, 2019
“Waking Up from Top Surgery in a Sparse Airbnb Living Room,”Rogue Agent, 2018
“I’m Sandcastled Sometimes, but Mostly Just Hungover,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2018
Selected Journals: Creative Nonfiction
“Sacrament for the End of the World.”Columbia Journal Online, 2020
Selected Journals: Drama
“Poetic Statement,”The Coachella Review, 2018
Selected Journals: Reviews
Review ofBlood Featherby Karla Kelsey,GASHER, 2020
Review of The Osiris Poems by Simon Perchik,Mid-American Review, 2018
Selected Conference Presentations
“Blood and Devilry: How Marlowe’s Imagistic Language Informs the Tone of theTragedy ofDoctor Faustus.” South
Central Renaissance Conference for “Exploring the Renaissance 2021: An International Conference,” virtual, March 2021.
Professional Appointments or Service
Guest Poetry Teacher, Jenks Summer Program, 2021
Associate Editor,Cimarron Review, 2020–present
GPSGA Liaison, Creative Writers Association, 2020-2021
Secretary, English Graduate Student Organization, 2019-2020
Featured Reader, Sundress Press Reading Series, 2019
Reader, MFA Application Review, 2018-present
Poetry Reader,Cimarron Review, 2018-2020
Assistant Poetry Editor,Mid-American Review, 2017-2018
Intern, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2016
Intern,Transference, 2014-2015
Assistant Editor,The Laureate, 2013-2016
Reading Intern,Third Coast, 2012-2016
Participant, Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, 2011
Awards and Recognition
Sundress Academy for the Arts Fall 2021 Residency Fellowship, June 2021
Digging Through the FatChapbook Series Semi-finalist, February 2021
2020 Frontier OPEN Finalist, March 2021
The Paul Klemp Renaissance Studies Scholarship, February 2021
Academy of American Poets Prize, February 2021
Black River Chapbook Competition Semi-finalist, January 2021
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest Honorable Mention, October 2020
Sundress Press Broadside Contest Semi-finalist, May 2020
Marye Lynn Cummings Endowed Scholarship Third Place, March 2020
OSU Academy of American Poets Prize Third Place, March 2020
Best of the Net Anthology Nomination, August 2019, September 2020
Construction Literary MagazineAnnual Contest Finalist, October 2019
Academy of American Poets Prize, March 2019
OSU Doel Reed Center for the Arts Scholarship, March 2019
Pushcart Prize Nomination, November 2018, 2019
OSU College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Scholarship, November 2018
Digging Through the Fat Chapbook Series Semi-finalist, September 2018
WMU English Department Diversity Studies Scholarship Winner, April 2016
Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Awards Finalist in Playwriting, March 2016
Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Awards Finalist in Fiction, March 2015, 2016
Gwen Frostic Creative Writing Awards Finalist in Poetry, March 2013, 2015, 2016
WMU English Department Diversity Studies Scholarship Co-winner, April 2015
WMU College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Award, September 2014
Unmanned PressShort of the Month Finalist, April 2013
Fire Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative, Pulse: Allied Artists Winner, June 2013
Martha Moffett Award Winner, May 2012
Irving S. Gilmore Student Arts Scholarship, May 2011
Current Research
My current critical work is invested in tracing transgender men’s voices in American history from the eighteenth century to present day, including in contemporary poetry.