Associate Professor, English Department
(M.A. Creative Writing, Brown University)
tel.: (607) 777-6124
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail: jcolbert@binghamton.edu
Website: http://www.jaimeewristoncolbert.com/about.html
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing - Fiction: novels and short stories; Creative Nonfiction: memoir and hybrid forms
Contemporary and Modern Literature
Current Projects
Newly Completed Novel: Shark Girls - incorporates Hawaiian mythology and an historical shark attack, 1950's, Oahu.
Previous novel, under publication consideration: An Inordinate Love.
Creative Nonfiction Book-in-progress: Hawaiian familial, political, and cultural ties during the twentieth century.
Published Books, and Recent Journals, Anthologies and Papers
Shark Girls - novel, Livingston Press, November 2009. http://www.livingstonpress.uwa.edu/htm%20(web%20pages)/shark_girls.htm
Dream Lives of Butterflies - Linked stories, BkMk Press of the University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2007. (Winner/ gold medalist, Independent Publishers Book Awards, 2008) http://web2.umkc.edu/bkmk/catalogue/978-1-886157-59-0.html
Climbing The God Tree - novel, Helicon Nine Editions, 1998. (Winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize) http://www.heliconnine.com/purchase.html
Sex, Salvation, And The Automobile - short story collection, Zephyr, 1994. (Winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize)
"The Man Who Jumped" - story, forthcoming in Jane's Stories - Anthology.
"We Were Sharks" - prose piece, forthcoming in I Was Indian - Anthology, Foothills Press, 2010.
"We Are All In Pieces" - story, Isotope, A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Vol. 7.1. 2009.
"Waking Up in Sacred Places" - story, Peculiar Pilgrims - Anthology, Hourglass Press, 2007.
"Shark Girls" - excerpt from novel, F. Magazine, Vol. 7, 2007.
"Girl Dreaming" - story, Boston Fiction Review, Vol. 2, 2007.
"Loving the Unlovable..." - paper, Proceedings/5th Annual Hawaii Conference on the Arts & Humanities, 2007.
"Heather's Hair " -- story reprint, Tiferet, 2006.
"Just Watching for Jesus" - story, Green Mountains Review, 2006. (Nominated for Pushcart Prize.)
Shark Girls novel excerpt - Harpur Palate, vol.5.2, 2006.
"Dream Lives of Butterflies" - title collection story, Louisiana Literature, 2005.
"The Manager's Son" - story, Prairie Schooner, Fall, 2005.
"Fly Me To The Moon" - story, Natural Bridge, Vol. 10, 2004.
"And Another Thing" - story, Connecticut Review, Vol. XXVI, 2004.
"Sharks in Paradise" - paper, Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, 2004.
"Sweet Breath" - story reprint; Sundress Publications: Stirring..., 2003.
"Song For The Prairie" - story, Natural Bridge, Vol. 8, 2002.
"Haole Girl Blue" - story, F. Magazine, Vol. 5, 2002.
"Haole Girl Blue" - reprint, Harpur Palate, Vol. 2, 2002.
"Bug Dreaming" - story, Incliner Tenth Anniversary Volume, 2002.
" If Lucy Ran" - story, Long Shot, Anniversary Issue, Vol. 25, 2001.
Journal and Anthology Publications before 2001 include: TriQuarterly,
New Letters, Snake Nation Review, Tampa Review, Pacific Coast Journal,
Chaminade Literary Review, Potato Eyes, Live Poets Anthology,
Ohio Short Fiction (Anthology) and others.
Recent Courses Taught
English 641, Graduate Fiction Workshop
CW 450, Advanced Fiction Workshop
CW 350, Craft and Technique in Fiction
CW 380, Eng 450, A Room of One's Own - Place in Fiction.
CW 380, Eng 450, Loving the Unlovable - A Character Study.
CW 380, Eng 450, Writing the Wild - A Study in Technique and Style.
Awards
Isotope, A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, 2009 Editors' Fiction Prize.
Jane's Stories National Short Story Award, 2008. http://www.janesstories.org/id51.html
Dream Lives of Butterflies won the gold medal, Independent Publisher Awards, 2008;
Finalist: USA BookNews Best Books of 2007 and ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, 2007.
"Distinguished Visiting Writer" - University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1999.
Wesleyan Writers Conference, the Fiction Fellowship, 1999
Willa Cather Fiction Prize - national/international competition, 1997
Zephyr Prize - national competition, 1994
Delogue Award - "Outstanding Woman Fiction Writer," 1994
"What the Deer Know" - Performed Live/PCA Great Performances and
"Selected Shorts"; nominated for Pushcart Prize, 1999.
"Haole Girl Blue" - nominated for Pushcart Prize.
"Just Watching for Jesus" - nominated for Pushcart
Finalist (twice) - Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize.
Recent Media Events
2009: Interview for new multi-media publication: Knee-Jerk, Chicago, IL http://www.kneejerkmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6:jamiee-wriston-colbert-interview&catid=6:interviews&Itemid=6
2008: Interview for Off The Page, WSKG Public Radio, Binghamton, NY. http://wskg.org/radio/off-the-page/2008-3-4.aspx
2007: Interview for New Letters on the Air, National Public Radio, Kansas City. http://odeo.com/episodes/24392132-Jaimee-Wriston-Colbert
2007: Interview, BkMk Press - Dream Lives of Butterflies. www.umkc.edu/bkmk/interviews/colbert%20interview.pdf
2007: Interview for Radio Free Moscow, Moscow, Idaho.
