Marissa Landrigan
marissa@wemeatagain.com
Education
MFA, Creative Writing & Environment, Iowa State University, May 2011
Concentrations: Creative Nonfiction, Sustainable Food Systems
Nonfiction Thesis: The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat
BA, Writing, Ithaca College, May 2005
Concentration: Creative Nonfiction
Minors: Sociology, Anthropology
Honors and Awards
- Top Prof Award, Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, Fort Hays State University, April 2012
- General Contributor, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, August 2010
- Teaching Excellence Award, Iowa State University, April 2010
- Dark Horse Award for Promise in Creative Writing, Iowa State University, April 2009
- Flyway Home Voices Award, Iowa State University, January 2009
- Golden Key International Honor Society, Iowa State University, December 2008-present
- Lee Gutkind Master Class, Ithaca College, April 2005
Publications
Creative Nonfiction
- “Garbanzo Beans for Breakfast,” Fringe, October 2012
- “Central Standard Time,” Precipitate, October 2012
- “That Metallic Desire,” The Nervous Breakdown,” August 2012
- “The Muscle of Beauty, The Body as Protest,” The Rumpus, August 2012
- “Catch and Release,” Guernica, July 2012
- “The Weight of Our Tracks,“ The Nervous Breakdown, June 2012
- “House of Memories,” Paper Darts, June 2012
- “You Will Never Know: A Review of Amy Monticello’s Close Quarters,” The Nervous Breakdown, April 2012.
- “Inventory,” Prick of the Spindle, March 2012
- “Field of Fallacies,” The Nervous Breakdown, February 2012.
- “New Beginnings” The Rumpus: Readers Report Back, February 2012
- “Waiting” The Nervous Breakdown, January 2012
- “Speaking in Place” Orion, Nov/Dec 2009
- “Ended Up Midwestern” Flyway: A Journal of Literature and Environment, Spring 2009
- “Wish List” Diagram, Volume 8.5, 2008
Journalism
- Freelance reporter for Ventura County Reporter and Ventana Monthly, 2007, specializing in arts, entertainment, local news and culture writing. Wrote event features, author interviews, music reviews, and art reviews.
- Freelance magazine writer and newspaper reporter in Bozeman, Montana, 2005-2007, specializing in arts and culture, and outdoor recreation. Wrote for such news outlets as Positive News, U.S. Edition, and glossy magazines such as Off the Grind, and Outside Bozeman.
- Freelance newspaper reporter, New Hampshire, 2001-2004. Wrote for such publications as The Nashua Telegraph.
Peer-Reviewed Critical Analysis
- “The Bread Rises Like a Voice: the Intersection of Food, Gender, and Place in the Writing of Sheryl St. Germain,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, forthcoming
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown, August 2012
- Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing, Spring 2013
- Creative Nonfiction Writing, Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
- Introduction to Professional Writing, Fall 2012 – Spring 2013
- Composition I, Fall 2012
Assistant Professor, Fort Hays State University, August 2011-May 2012
- Professional Editing, Spring 2012
- World Literature & The Human Experience, Spring 2012
- Introduction to Fiction, Fall 2011
- English Composition II, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
- English Composition I, Fall 2011
Graduate Student Instructor, Iowa State University, August 2008-May 2011
- Introduction to Creative Writing, teaching assistant to Prof. Dean Bakopoulos, Spring 2011
- Honors Composition: Self & The Environment, Fall 2010
- Eco-Composition, Spring 2010-Summer 2010
- Critical Thinking & Communication II, Spring 2009-Fall 2009
- Critical Thinking & Communication I, Fall 2008-Summer 2009
Tutor, Huntington Learning Center, Ventura CA, 2007
- SAT/ACT Coordinator and Tutor
Ithaca College, 2004-2005
- Assistant to the Director, Writing Department Internship Program, Sept. 2004-May 2005
- Teaching Assistant, Writing Department, Sept. 2004-May 2005
- Writing Consultant, Department of Internet Technology, Jan. 2004-May 2005
Readings
- University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown, November 2012
- excerpt from “Elk Country,” PEN Center USA, The Rogue Room recording series, Los Angeles, October 2012
- “Guts,” PEN Center USA, Dirty Laundry Lit Reading Series, Los Angeles, October 2012
- “The West in Four Genres,” Western Literature Association, Missoula, October 2011
Presentations
- “We Meat Again: Activist Writing & Becoming Un-Vegetarian,” Mortar Board Gold Cord Lecture Series, Fort Hays State University, Hays, November 2011
- “Creative ReUse: Art & Writing from the Marginalized Environmental Imagination,” American Society for Literature and the Environment, Bloomington, July 2011
- “Word as Weapon: Boundary-Crossing by Dismantling Hierarchies in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge and Arundhati Roy’s The Cost of Living,” College English Association, San Antonio, March 2010
- “Pink Collars: Gender, Class & the Workplace,” Eastern Sociological Society, New York, April 2004
Service
University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown, August 2012-present
- Curriculum Development: designed and proposed new courses in Literary Journalism and Writing for Digital Media, including syllabi development, for English Writing major
- Member, Humanities Writing Awards Committee
- Member, Gologonooza Student Play Festival Judging Committee
Fort Hays State University, August 2011-May 2012
- Chair, Post Parade committee: responsible for student production of English department alumni newsletter including story idea generation, planning and drafting stories, guiding students in writer/editor relationships, layout and design.
- Chair, Hays Arts Council Creative Writing Contest committee
Iowa State University, March 2008-May 2011
- Member, Stewardship Committee, Everett Casey Nature Center & Reserve
When I was twenty years old, I watched PETA’s “Meet Your Meat” in a rhetoric class and became a vegetarian. Seven years later, I decided to start eating meat again–for ethical reasons. This blog is about that journey and all its complications, from the humane treatment of animals to labor rights and global poverty, from radical feminist cooking to local, sustainable, affordable recipes. But most of all, it’s about community, about the kitchen as the place where we all sit down together and eat.
