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• About me

  Poetry is the essential, and I believe because of our world's hunger for less noise and more music, poetry is rising up as our next artistic renaissance. We are a society craving marrow, craving centricity, craving the core of our own selves which can be lost as we spread ourselves thin. Poetry can bring us back to that center. Poetry can trim the busy-ness of our lives and leave us with the good solid truths that, in reading, we discover have been hiding inside us eternally.

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  Katie Bickham
  3330 Alexander Avenue
  Shreveport, LA 71104
  
  Education:M.F.A. Candidate, Creative Writing, Stonecoast: University of Southern Maine, July 2013
  Concentrations: Narrative poetry, New Formalism, Poetry of the American South
  Thesis: The Belle MarM.A. Liberal Arts, Louisiana State University Shreveport, 2010
  Concentrations: Post-Modern American Poetry, Feminist Theory
  Thesis: Plucked: A Poetic Revision of Persephone and DemeterB.A., English Literature, Louisiana State University Shreveport, 2008Employment History:English Instructor, 2011 – Present
  Bossier Parish Community College
  Duties: Teaching literature, composition and developmental writing, making myself available for student enrichmentBoard Member, 2011 – Present
  River City Repertory Theatre
  Duties: Participating in artistic direction and shaping of each season, fund-raising, creating social networking channels and an online presenceGraduate Assistant, 2009-2010
  Louisiana State University, Shreveport
  Duties: Assisting with administrative duties in the MLA department, maintaining Liberal Arts website, assisting faculty with research, teaching freshman compositionFreelance Writer, 2010
  Shreveport Regional Arts Council
  Duties: Cowriting, staging, and directing a play with screenwriter James V. Hart, writer of Hook and Contact to commemorate the Great Depression’s effect on South LouisianaPeer Tutor, 2009
  Louisiana State University, Shreveport
  Duties: Assisting graduate and undergraduate students with writing assignments and research
  Presentations:Bickham, Katie (2011). “In Defense of Form: Innovations in the Modern Sonnet.” LSUS Liberal Arts Graduate Symposium.
  Publications:Bickham, Katie (2010). “Orexis” (poem). FrostWriting.com.Bickham, Katie (2012). “Hymn Below Sea Level” (poem). Deep South Magazine.Bickham, Katie (2012). “Fruition” and “Letters to the Underworld: Demeter’s Sestina” (poems). Journal of Formal Poetry.Bickham, Katie (2013). “Granny Wise Never Misses a Mardi Gras Feast” (poem). Deep South Magazine.Bickham, Katie (2013). Selections from The Belle Mar (poems). The Missouri Review.
  Scholarships and Awards:Lexi Rudnitsky Prize FinalistPhillip Levine Poetry Prize Finalist2013 Missouri Review Editor’s Prize Winner: $5000 and publication of winning poemsStonecoast Alumni Award: $1000 Anually