Mary Cappello

Mary Cappello is a writer and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Rhode Island.University of Rhode Island, Faculty Bios
Mary Cappello
She is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, and her essays and experimental prose have been published in '' The Georgia Review'',Mary Cappello
"Getting the News"
''The Georgia Review'', volume 63, number 2, Summer 2009, 294-315. '' Salmagundi''Mary Cappello
"For 'Anyone Interested in Learning What Makes Us Human'
''Salmagundi'', Spring-Summer 2008, 75-96. and '' Cabinet Magazine''.Mary Cappello, "Ingestion/Alone on Floor with a Pile of Buttons," ''Cabinet Magazine: A Quarterly of Art and Culture,'' Special Issue: Forensics, 43 (October 2011): 12-15. Her work has been featured in ''The New York Times'',Amanda Schaffer
Down the Hatch and Straight Into Medical History
The New York Times, January 10, 2011. ''Salon'',Thomas Rogers
“Swallow”: The strange things people swallow
Salon, December 18, 2010. ''The Huffington Post'',13 Real And Imaginary Things That People Have Swallowed
The Huffington Post, January 22, 2011. in guest author blogs for Powell's Books,Powell's Books Blog
Mary Cappello
and on six separate occasions as Notable Essay of the Year in Best American Essays.John Jeremiah Sullivan and Robert Atwan, eds
The Best American Essays 2014
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 7, 2014.Edwidge Danticat and Robert Atwan, eds
Best American Essays 2011
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 4, 2011.Mary Oliver, ed
The Best American Essays 2009
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 8, 2009. A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction,John Simon Guggenheim Fellows
Mary Cappello
she recently received a 2015 Berlin Prize from The American Academy in Berlin, a fellowship awarded to scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.The American Academy in Berlin
American Academy Announces Berlin Prize Recipients
, 2015.

Education

Cappello is originally from Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from State University of New York, Buffalo, and her B.A. from Dickinson College. Cappello has taught at the University of Rhode Island, as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, Russia,University at Buffalo Alumni Association
Mary Cappello, PhD ’88 & MA ’85, Award-winning professor
and at the University of Rochester.

Publications and works

Literary nonfiction: Books

* ''Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack'', University of Chicago Press, October 2016.
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Essays and experimental prose print

*“Mood Rooms,” chosen as the annual Meridel Le Sueur Essay, Water~Stone Review, Fall 2015.Water~Stone Review
Fall 2015.
*“Wending Artifice: Creative Nonfiction and our Century’s Turn," in
*“Contact,” in
* “My Secret, Private Errand (An Essay on Love and Theft),” Salmagundi, Fall 2013-Winter 2014, nos. 180-181: 135–183.
*“objective correlatives: a trialogue on love,” Hotel Amerika, volume 8, no. 2, Spring 2010, 7–15.
*“Losing Consciousness to a Lost Art,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2007, 329–338.

"The Trees are Aflame"
from ''My Commie Sweetheart: Scenes from a Queer Friendship,'' 2004.

Essays and experimental prose on-line

* “Courting the Peculiar: The Ever-changing Queerness of Creative Nonfiction" a series of essays, sound texts and performances on creative nonfiction as a queer genre
Slag Glass City
December 2014.

"Flow,"
a lyric essay for Bending Genre: Toward a Theory of Creative Nonfiction, April 2013.

"Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview"
with David Lazar for ''The Conversant: Interview Projects, Talk Poetries, Embodied Inquiry,'' November 2013.

"Lyric Essay as Perversion: Channeling Djuna Barnes,"
TriQuarterly, September 2014.

"Disconcerting Pleasures; or, The Mysterious Unknowability of the Mind: A Conversation with Mary Cappello and Christine Montross"
for Bellevue Literary Press Conversation Series between doctors and artists, May 23, 2014.

Awards and recognition

* Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, Individual Fellowship, 2015.American Academy Announces Berlin Prize Recipients

*The University of Rhode Island Foundation Scholarly Excellence Award, 2015.URI Foundation Excellence Awards
, 2015. Nominated in 2014, 2013.
* John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Creative Arts/Nonfiction.
* GAMMA Award for Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southeast for "Getting the News: A Signer among Signs," ''The Georgia Review'', volume 63, number 2, Summer 2009.The Georgia Review earns 10 honors at GAMMA Awards ceremony
UGA Today, May 4, 2010.
* Teacher of the Year Award, University of Rochester.University of Rhode Island
Meet Mary Cappello

*The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, NYC for the essay, "Can Creative Writing Be Taught?"Bechtel Prize Essay
"Can Creative Writing Be Taught?"
, Mary Cappello, 2004.
* The Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, with photographer Paola Ferrario, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, for "Pane Amaro/Bitter Bread: The Struggle of New Immigrants to Italy," 2001.Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize Winners
Mary Cappello and Paola Ferrario
, 2001.
* Fulbright Fellowship, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Russia, 2001.University of Rhode Island Faculty
Mary Cappello

References

External links and interviews

Interview
with Mutter Museum Director Robert Hicks for ''No Bones About It'' on the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection
Interview
with LA Times Carolyn Kellogg, on the most important book Cappello read in school
Interview
with Julie Bolcer for Here! TV, on writing breast cancer and its politics, posted by Antonio Gonzalez Cerna from Lambda Literary
Interview
with Sarah Kruse, on writing the strange and non-narrative assemblage

The Curious Collection of Swallowed Objects
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, March 23, 2011.

Awkward: A Detour
with Celeste Quinn for Illinois Public Radio's Afternoon Magazine, February 27, 2008.
* An illustrated reading
"The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection and the Art It Has Inspired,"
at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum and Gallery, London, England, June 2012.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Dickinson College alumni
University of Rhode Island faculty
People from Darby, Pennsylvania
University at Buffalo alumni
Fulbright alumni