Emily Wortman-Wunder

Colorado State University
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
1173 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: (970) 491-2029
E-mail: emwunder@lamar.colostate.edu

Education:
Master of Fine Arts, Fiction Writing, Colorado State University, 2003
B.A., Biology, University of Colorado, 1995
Magna cum Laude
Barnard College, Columbia University, 1990-1992. Centennial Scholar

Professional Experience:

December 2004 to date--Assistant Director, Center for Rhizosphere Biology
July 2004 to date--Communications manager, Vivanco Lab, Colorado State University
November 2003: Writing Fellow, Hedgebrook Writers' Colony, Langley, WA
2002-2003: Assistant Director, Colorado State University Writing Center
2001: Teacher of Composition, Colorado State University
2000-2001: Writing Consultant, Writing Center, Colorado State University 1998-2000: Lab technician, Gene Check Inc., Fort Collins, CO

Awards, Scholarships and Honors:

1. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, February 2005
2. 2nd Place, Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, North American Review, 2004
3. Honorable Mention, Atlantic Monthly's Student Writing Competition, 2002
4. Nominated for Best New American Voices Award, 2001 and 2003
5. Nominated for AWP Intro Journals Award, 2001
6 . Supplemental Graduate Fellowship, Colorado State University, 2000-2001

Research Interests:
I consult on most of the communications coming out of the lab, including papers, grant proposals, letters of inquiry, and some presentations. I'm also the contact person for most of the purchases made by the lab.

Selected Publications:
1. "My Firm, Fat Life," Colorado Review. Summer 2006
2. "The Four-Foot Moth," Seed Science Magazine annual fiction supplement, June/July 2006
3 . "Bear," West Branch. In press.
4 . "Not a Thing to Comfort You," Ontario Review, Spring 2005
5 . Bimonthly series on neighborhood relations, Porch, 2004-2005
6 . Two sets of fifth-grade science readers, MacMillan textbook company; sample
7 . "Where have all the plovers gone?" Montana Outdoors, July-August 2004
8 . "Home Improvements," North American Review, Summer Fiction Issue, 2004
9 . "Village People," Brain, Child, Winter 2004
10 . Websight reviews for Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
11. "Gustav and Vera," The Laurel Review, Fall 2003
12. "Sisters: A Geography." Web project for Creative Web Writing class, spring 2003.