Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez
Associate Professor of Practice, English
Interim Director of Creative Writing, English
Scholarly Interests
Poetry, Documentary Poetics, Hybrid Texts, Latinx Literature, Borderland Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, image, archive, and translation. They specializes in creative writing (hybrid texts, poetry, fiction) and Latinx literature. They are the author of the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and the poetry chapbook A/An (End of the Line Press). They hold an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and their writing has appeared in the 2021 Best New Poets Anthology, Colorado Review, West Branch, AGNI, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, diode, Interim, and other literary journals. Winner of the 2018 Boulevard Emerging Poets Prize, they have been awarded fellowships from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Lambda Writing Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, TAKT Residency in Berlin, Center for Book Arts, Frost Place Conference on Poetry, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and MacDowell. They founded and run the Clark Poets and Writers Reading Series, which hosts readings by writers of color and queer/trans writers. They are currently working on Salem Songs, a poetry manuscript which uses 17th century court records of the Salem Witch Trials as a sounding board to uncover the power and violence residing within the language of the legal system.
Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez’s courses include: Writing the Borderlands; Latine Mythology: Speaking to Ancestors; Hybrid Texts: Writing Race, Gender, and Sexuality; Creative Writing: Poetry; and Advanced Poetry.
SELECT PUBLICATIONSBooks
- A/An. Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez. End of the Line Press, 2024.
- La Pava. Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez. Ediciones Inubicalistas, 2016.
Work in Literary Journals
- “El Trauco.” Elipsis: poesía y literatura desde el sur, 2022. (in Spanish)
- “El Trauco.” DIAGRAM. Vol. 22, Iss. 2. Spring, 2022. (in English)
- “Examination of Tituba” & “Examination of George Jacobs, Sr.” Colorado Review, Summer 2022.
- “Examination of Martha Carrier, Queen of Hell.” Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics. Vol. 38, Iss. 3, Fall 2021.
- “Examination: Sarah Good” and “Sarah Good’s Confession.” Quarterly West. Iss. 102: Domestication/Feralization, Spring 2021.
- “Second Examination of Tituba.” Shrapnel Magazine, Spring 2021.
- “Glamour Purse” and “River Boys.” Diode. Vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2020.
- “Carnecitas,” “The Bunker in Berlin-Mitte,” and “Noise Prophets.” Boulevard. Iss. 100, Fall 2018.
- “Metrical Charm 7: For a Shallow Wound.” West Branch. Iss. 87, Spring/Summer 2018.
Degrees
- M.F.A. in Poetry, Cornell University, 2013
- B.A. in Creative Writing, Knox College, 2010
Affiliated Department(s)
- English Department
- English, Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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2024
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New Orleans
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2024
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ISBN #978-1738178407
End of the Line Press
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Metrical Charm: For an Abortion
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2023
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Metrical Charm: For a Swarm of Bees
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2023
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Lewisburg, PA
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2022
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Vol. 22
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Issue #1
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Examination of George Jacobs, Sr.
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2022
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Vol. 49
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Issue #2
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2022
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Vol. 49
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Issue #2
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2022
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Temuco
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2021
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Sarah Good's Confession" and "Court Examination: Sarah Good
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2021
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Issue #102
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Examination of Martha Carrier, Queen of Hell
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2021
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Vol. 38
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Issue #3
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Glamour Purse" and "River Boys
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2020
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Vol. 13
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Issue #1
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2016
Ediciones Inubicalistas
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O/ccult: poems
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Awards & Grants
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Salem Songs: Research at Peabody Essex Museum archive and sampler project
Higgins School of Humanities
Jan. 1, 2023 - Jan. 1, 2024
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MacDowell Fellowship
May. 25, 2023 - Jun. 22, 2023
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Affective Histories exhibit at Hesse Flatow Gallery, NYC
Higgins School of Humanities
Nov. 16, 2021 - Dec. 16, 2021
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Finalist, Omnidawn First/Second Poetry Book Contest
Omnidawn Press
2022
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