Dalanie Beach
Graduate Student
Ellis 305, Athens Campus
Doctoral Student, concentration in Creative Writing
Education
- Bachelor of Arts, 2020
English Writing/Studio Art
Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
Senior Comprehensive: The Blood We Share: Stories
- Master of Fine Arts, 2022
Creative Writing: Fiction
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Master’s Thesis: The Samsa Files: A Novel
Honors/Awards
- Shortlisted for DZANC Books Prize for Fiction, for The Samsa Files (2025)
- Editor’s Choice Award for short story, “Everything You’ve Never Had” (2022)
- Jordan-Goodman Graduate Award for “Everything You’ve Never Had,” Miami University (2021)
- Third-place flash fiction prize award for “Liminal Space,” Miami University (2021)
- The Saint Luke’s Medal award for distinguished achievement in the visual arts, Saint Mary’s College (2020)
- The Laurie A. Lesniewski Creative Writing Award, Saint Mary’s College (2020)
Courses Taught
ĢƵ University
- ENG 4970T: Thesis Tutorial (Fall 2025)
- ENG3260: Queer Literature (Fall 2025)
- ENG2800: Writing and Research, (Fall 2025)
- ENG 3980T: Specialized Tutorial II (Spring 2025)
- ENG 2800: Writing and Research (Spring 2025)
- ENG1100: Crossing Cultures with Texts (Fall 2024)
- ENG 3960: Advanced Fiction Workshop (Spring 2024)
- ENG 2010: Introduction to Fiction and Nonfiction Prose (Fall 2023)
- ENG1510: Writing and Rhetoric in the (Fall and Spring 2022-23)
Miami University
- ENG111: Composition and Rhetoric (Fall and spring 2020-21, synchronous/online).
- ENG226: Intro to Creative Writing (Fall and Spring 2021-22, in-person).
Creative Writing Publications
- “Unreadable: The Complexity of Nonbinary Embodiment,” Creative Nonfiction, The Tusculum Review, Winter 2024
- “Letter to E,” Flash Creative Nonfiction, LandLocked, Issue 5.1, pg. 30, Winter 2024
- “,” Flash Creative Nonfiction, Oxmag, Issue 49, Dec 2022
- “,” Fiction, East Fork Journal of the Arts, Feb 2022
Visual Art Publications
- “” and “,” Collage, The Spectacle, Issue 12, Nov 2023
- “Airhead” and “Loverboy,” Collage, Glassworks, cover art, pg. 52, Issue 27, Oct 2023
- “Brainstorm” and “Unwritten,” , Jul 2023