Education
- Lindenwood University, B.A. (Psychology) – 2000
- Lindenwood University, M.F.A. (Writing) – 2015
Teaching Experience
- Adjunct Instructor, North Dakota State College of Science (2015) – ASC 88 – Composition Lab
- Volunteer, Moorhead Public Schools – Adult Beginning Education – 2017
Workshops/Presentations
- ND Poetry Out Loud – Poets in the Schools – November/December 2021
- Virtual Freewriting Exercise – Link to Teacher Guide – Link to Lesson
ND Poetry Out Loud – ND Humanities – September 2020 – Link to NDPOL Page - Pomegranates and Poetry – Community Supported Art Event with Orator Maria Modi Tuya –
The Arts Partnership – July 2020 - Honesty and Transparency in Parenting – Can we be Too Honest?
4th Annual ND State Autism Spectrum Disorders Conference – October 2017
Speaking Experience
- Take Back the Night – North Dakota State University, Featured Speaker – September 2017
- Enough. at NDSU – North Dakota State Univeristy – Sexual Assault Awareness Survivor Talk – April 2017
Interviews / Feature Articles
- Prairie Public Broadcasting – Poems for the Moment – The First Friday in June – March, 2021
- The Fargo Forum – http://www.inforum.com – July 13, 2020
- High Plains Reader – hpr.com – July 31, 2019
- Prairie Public Radio – Three Segments – BiPolar – Vision – Book / Proto Sonnet – June/July 2019
- YourArtsyGirl Podcast – https://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/ – July 2019
- The Forum – www.inforum.com – May 21, 2018
- Write and Author – www.writeandauthor.com – April 2017
- HocTok – www.hoctok.com – February 2017
- The Basil O’Flaherty – Feminists’ Voices – thebasiloflaherty.weebly.com – November 2016
Awards/Exhibits
- Hello, My Name is Depression, and I Want to Kill You
Winner ‘Most Normal’ in Literary Arts – This Is Normal. juried art exhibit
North Suburban Arts Center – Fridley, MN – May-June 2022 - A Hint of Trouble – Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest 90th Annual Writing Competition – Memoirs/Personal Essay
- An Unusual Cure – Exhibitor, 2021 ND Human Rights Arts Festival
- Vision – Best Performance Piece, 2nd Annual ND Human Rights Arts Festival
- Bipolar Is… – Runner Up, 2017 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Award Poetry Contest – Listen Here. Watch Video
- If I could write as someone else – Third Place, 2017 Women Inspirational Poetry Contest
- Shadows – Honorable Mention – 2016 Art Young Memorial Award for Poetry
Commissions
- Jupiters Song – In Memory of Daisy Jade “Jupiter” Paulsen, December 8, 2006 – June 13, 2021
- Vision – Poem commissioned by Fargo/Moorhead Community Theatre in response to the local 2018 production of The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theatre Project – October 2018
Grants
- 2021 Artist Studio Grant Recipient – The Arts Partnership – Fargo, ND
- 2018 Individual Arts Partnership (IAP) Grant Recipient
$2,000 toward funds to work with a professional editor to ready a poetry manuscript for professional publication. - 2017 Individual Arts Partnership (IAP) Grant Recipient
$1,200 toward office space in which to focus on creating a full-length poetry collection for publication.
Books
- but the flames – Finishing Line Press – January 2021
- Conversations with Beethoven and Bach – Channillo.com / Amazon.com – March 2017
- Look Where She Points (chapbook) – Plan B Press – December 2016
Poetry
- Click Here to Define – Black Spot Books-UNDER HER EYE – Forthcoming
- A Privacy – ND Quarterly – Forthcoming
- The Rocking Chair – Emthology – Forthcoming
- Three Poems – Underwood Press – The Purpled Nail – April, 2022
- No, I haven’t kissed her – Inverted Syntax – The Art of the Postcard 3 – February 2021
- I’ll Read Poems by the Pomegranates – Fargo Monthly, May 2020
- Woodside – Westminster Reflections, October 2019
- To the woman who commented on Facebook, an Open Letter – SFWP Quarterly Issue 19 – Summer 2019
- Jungle Gym – Thin Air Magazine – Summer 2019
- Vision – Indolent Books What Rough Beast – November 2018
- BiPolar Is… / Say Hello, Social Anxiety! – New Reader Magazine – June 2018
- Vultures – Spillwords.com – July 2017
- The First Friday in June – Northern Narratives – May 2017
- Today I Got Fat – Spillwords.com – April 2017
- My Life as a Fountain Pen – Into the Void – Luminous Echos Anthology – Spring 2017
- Look Where She Points / Vessel – The Basil O’Flaherty Feminists’ Voices – November 2016
- Pardon My Voice – Indolent Books – Transition: Poems in the Aftermath – November 2016
- Line 13 Zoetic Press – Write Like You’re Alive – September 2016
- Reconnection – Proximity Magazine – #11 Reunion – Summer 2016
- Aubade after The End – Rising Phoenix Press – April 2016
- Thoughts on an Appalachian Waltz – The Notebook – The Grassroots Women Project – Winter 2016
- Shadows – Art Young’s Good Morning (Vol. 4 Issue 3) – March 2016
- Aubade after The End – Linden Avenue Literary Journal – February 2016
- The One I Never Slept With – He Said to Me – November 2015
- Four Poems – Writing Raw Online Magazine – November 2015
- Curve – The Voices Project – April 2014
- I CAN’T TELL – Red Weather Literary Magazine – Spring 2009
- Not Another Empty Table – Void Magazine – April 2006
- At the Audition – Writer’s Journal – November 2005
Flash Fiction
- Sword Lilies – Dribble Drabble Review – forthcoming
- Laundry Day – Foliate Oak Literary Magazine – March 2015
Creative Nonfiction
- Two Pages from a Chapter – Voices of the Valley – March 2018
- Survivor – Drunk Monkeys Literary Magazine – Special Issue – November 2016
- Nun in the Pink Habit – Soundings Review – Winter 2015-16
Plays
- One or the Other – Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company – July 2017
- Atomic Lounge – 25th Annual Abbie Hoffman Died for our Sins Theatre Festival – August 2013
Articles
- Writers Retreat – Persephone’s Daughters Newsletter – August 2017
- The Talk – Persephone’s Daughters Newsletter – May 2017
- Today I Had the Desire to Cry – Persephone’s Daughters Newsletter – April 2017
- Be Daring – Persephone’s Daughters Newsletter – March 2017
- Time to Write – Persephone’s Daughters Newsletter – February 2017
Conferences and Festival Participation
- University of North Dakota Writer’s Conference – Virtual/Grand Forks, ND – March 2022
- University of North Dakota Writer’s Conference – Grand Forks, ND – March 2019
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs – Portland, OR – March 2019
- University of North Dakota Writer’s Conference – Grand Forks, ND – March 2018
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs – Tampa, FL – March 2018
- Luminous Moment, Luminous Word: A Creative Writing and Mindfulness Retreat – Fargo, ND – August 2017
- University of North Dakota Writer’s Conference – Grand Forks, ND – April 2016
- Big River Writer’s Conference – St. Louis, MO – June 2014
- University of North Dakota Writer’s Conference – Grand Forks, ND – March 2014
- 25th Annual Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival – Chicago, IL – August 2013
- Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – Region V – Overland Park, KS – January 2010
- 2nd Annual Great Plains Theatre Conference – Writer’s Workshop – Omaha, NE – May 2007
- William Inge 24 Hour Playwriting Festival – Independence, KS – September 2006
- Just Off Broadway Playwrights Festival – Kansas City, MO – August 2006
Editorial and Publication Experience
- 42 Stories Anthology
Writing Advice Contributor / Guest Judge, Macabre and Morbid Chapter (2021-2022) - Persephone’s Daughters – Poetry Reader (2017-2019)
- The Indianola Review – Poetry Reader – (2016-2017)
- The Lindenwood Review – Editorial Assistant (2014)
- Red Weather Literary Journal – Staff Member – (2008)
- Quivira Literary Club and Journal – Editorial Staff – (2005-2007)
You can download a copy of Emily’s CV here: Emily Vieweg’s CV