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Peter Melman
Peter Melman completed
his Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, in
May 2001. He was born in Huntington, New York in 1971, then moved with his
family to Lafayette in 1984. After receiving a B.A. in History from Tufts
University in 1993, he left Boston for Podebrady, Czech Republic, where he
taught English and Humanities for two years at Charles University. He then
moved to Manhattan, working as restaurant critic and editorial assistant at
the Zagat Restaurant Survey. Since returning to Lafayette in 1996, he has
received his M.A. in Creative Writing and has published in numerous literary
journals, including the Evansville Review, ByLine, Mississippi
Review, Connecticut Review, Puerto Del Sol, Atlanta
Review, Jeopardy Magazine, and Louisiana Literature, as
well as several issues of the Southwestern Review. His scholarly work
has appeared in Shakespeare Yearbook and English Language Notes. |
Peter Melman So Far
Graduate teaching at UL
Lafayette. Classes include: English 90, English 101, English 102, English 205,
English 223
ESL to Vietnamese
students, guest lecturer
Writing Center,
workshop experience
CAAP tutor
Spring 2001: Zyzzyva, “An Isthmus Joins Two
Distinct Consequences” (poem)
Spring 2001: Evansville Review,
"Choose Your Own Adventure" (poem); ByLine "Hello"
(poem); Mississippi Review Upon Ophelia's Death: V.i" (soliloquy)
December 2000: Shakespeare Yearbook
(scholarly publication)
Fall 2000: Connecticut Review,
"Sunshine Cleaners and Laundry" (short-short), "How Art Becomes
the Crazy" (short-short)
Spring 2000: Puerto Del Sol,
"Understanding Jackson Pollock" (literary essay)
Spring 1999: Atlanta Review, "Working
Wood" (short fiction)
1998: Jeopardy Magazine, "Leveling the
Glassworks" (literary essay)
1997: Sigma Tau Delta (cookbook submission)
1996: Louisiana Literature, "Martyrdom
as a Tough Racket" (short fiction)
Plus, four years of Southwestern Review
Scholastically, I have published in Shakespeare
Yearbook (Vol.XI, 2000) and have an article forthcoming in English
Language Notes (2001)
Sigma Tau Delta
Phi Kappa Phi
Deep South Writers
Conference: Reader, Performance of Rochelle Owens’s poetry, workshop offered at
ESA, Leader of Poetry Crawl
Editor-in-Chief, Deep
South Writers Conference Chapbook
Freshman Textbook
Committee
Quiz Bowl question
reader
Lit Mag Committee
Spelling Bee Judge for
the Acadiana Regional Spelling Bee (Feb 2000), Phi Delta Kappa
Local Arrangement
Committee (2000)
Graduate Search
Committee
Writing Program at Art
House Reading, April 2000
Host, UL Reading Series
Guest Reader, English 102
Eavesdrop Theatre
participant
When I first
entered the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette,
my stories were mechanically disastrous. At the time, I only knew that I
enjoyed writing them. I could never have known writing itself would become my
life's focus. And, in large part, I attribute this appreciation, this
consumption, to my tenure at ULL's Creative Writing Program. The instruction
has been forthright and encouraging, the community less tooth-and-nail
competitive than fostering. There's absolutely no question my writing and
publishing success, limited though it may be, is greatly indebted to the
Creative Writing Program here.
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