Assistant Professor
Curator, MFA Student Reading Series
Phone: (901) 678-4674
Email: slvngst2@memphis.edu
Website: sonjalivingston.com
Office: Patterson 430

Education

MFA, University of New Orleans
M.S. Ed., SUNY Brockport

Academic Summary

Professor Livingston teachers writing workshops in creative nonfiction and poetry. While her specialties are personal narrative and memoir, she is particularly interested in the ways in which the genres of poetry and literary nonfiction intersect in the hybrid form known as the lyric essay.

Select Publications

Creative Nonfiction

• "Land of the Lost" Winner of the Susan Atefat Nonfiction Prize, Arts & Letters, 2013
• "Lonely Hunters" Seneca Review, 2013
• "One for Sorrow" The McNeese Review, 2013
• "Mad Love: The Ballad of Fred & Allie" Creative Nonfiction, 2013
• Something Like Joy" River Teeth, 2013
• “Our Lady of the Roses,” Fourth Genre, 2012.
• “Field Guide,” Jelly Bucket/Bluegrass Writers’ Workshop, 2012.
• “Ghetto Girls Guide,” YOU: 2ND PERSON ESSAYS, Welcome Table Press, 2012
• “Dare: A Parenthetical Aside” Waccamaw, 2011. (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
• “Five Dollars” and “Power” IOU: New Writing on Money, Concord Free Press, Spring 2010.
• Ghostbread,University of Georgia Press, Paperback, 2010/Hardcover 2009.

Poetry

• “But All is to be Dared.” Alaska Quarterly Review, 2011
• “Honky.” Alaska Quarterly Review, 2011.
• “The First Gulf War.” Love Rises Up: An Anthology, Benu Press, 2012.
• “Año Nuevo.” Cream City Review, 2010.
• “St. Valentine’s Day, Western New York.” Spoon River Poetry Review, 2010. (nominated for A Pushcart Prize)
• “Miss Zucchini Blossom.” AGNI, 2009.