Molia Dumbleton’s fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Sun Magazine, Ecotone, Best Small Fictions, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Catapult, Cincinnati Review, Wigleaf, Witness, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Bridport Prize Anthology, The Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, and elsewhere.
Her stories have been awarded the Seán Ó Faoláin Story Prize (Ireland) and Columbia Journal Winter Fiction Award (selected by Roxane Gay), among other honors, and her full-length and chapbook-length collections have been recognized by the Iowa Short Fiction Award, Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize, Masters Review Chapbook Open, Non/Fiction Collection Prize, and Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize.
She is an Assistant Fiction Editor for Split Lip Magazine and a member of the Curatorial Board at Ragdale, and has served as a reader for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction and the AWP Series Prize for the Novel. She is a freelance writer and editor and teaches creative writing as a member of the part-time faculty at DePaul University.
Education + Professional Development
FORMAL EDUCATION
M.F.A. Writing (Fiction), Bennington College, 2021
M.A. Creative Writing (Fiction), Northwestern University, 2007 // Distinguished Thesis Award
M.A. Religion (Medical Anthropology), Rice University, 1997
B.A. Religious Studies/Theater, Oberlin College, 1993
INFORMAL EDUCATION (selected)
DePaul University Office of Prior Learning Assessment, 2021
DePaul University Online Teaching Series, 2020
Editorial Freelancers’ Association Copyediting Fiction, 2019
AWP Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program, 2018
Flash Fiction Intensive, 2016, 2018
Story Studio Chicago: Novel in a Year, 2014–2015
RESIDENCIES & ARTISTS’ RETREATS
Kenyon Review Summer Writers’ Workshop, 2013, 2016, 2022
Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop for Teachers, 2021 // Merit Scholarship
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2017 // Susannah McCorkle Scholarship in Fiction
Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, 2016 // Merit Scholarship
Kenyon Review Summer Writers’ Workshop, 2015 // Peter Taylor Fellowship
Kenyon Institute Playwrights’ Conference, 2014
Literary Engagement
ASSISTANT FICTION EDITOR
Split Lip Magazine, 2019-Present
CURATORIAL BOARD MEMBER
Ragdale Foundation Artists’ Colony, 2016-Present
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANT AWARDEE
Illinois Arts Council Agency, 2022
INVITED MANUSCRIPT READER/SCREENER
Grace Paley Short Fiction Award, 2021
AWP Series Prize for the Novel, 2021
GUEST LECTURER
Rutgers University MFA, 2020
VISITING WRITER
Medaille College, 2019
READER
The Masters Review, 2018-2019
GUEST EDITOR
SmokeLong Quarterly, 2018
PANELIST
DePaul University Craft of Composition Panel 2013, 2014
PANEL MODERATOR
Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference 2008, 2009
Professional Experience: Writing + Editorial
CONSULTING EDITOR AND INSTRUCTOR
Independent, 2013-Present Work With Me >
FREELANCE WRITER AND EDITOR
Independent, 2004-Present Work With Me >
MANAGING EDITOR, SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Kindermusik International, Inc., 2004-2017
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS WRITER
Quercus Consulting, 2003-2006
EDUCATION WRITER
BrainWorx Studio, 2003-2004
INTERACTIVE GAME WRITER/EDITOR
LeapFrog Enterprises, 2002-2003
Professional Experience: Teaching
PART-TIME FACULTY (Creative Writing)
DePaul University’s English Department, 2020-Present
Courses: 201 Intro to Creative Writing, 209 Craft of Fiction Writing, 307 Advanced Fiction, 309 Advanced Topics in Writing
PART-TIME FACULTY (Creative Writing)
DePaul University's School for Continuing and Professional Studies (formerly The School for New Learning),
2003-Present
Courses: 176 Creative Writing, 315 Creativity & Imagination, Academic Writing for Adults, 140 Writers’ Toolkit: APA Basics, and 172 Making Poems
PART-TIME FACULTY (English Literature & Composition)
National-Louis University, 2018-2021
Courses: 101 Beginning English Composition, ENG 201 Intermediate English Composition, ENG 201 Intermediate English Composition Honors
COURSE INSTRUCTOR (Creative Writing)
The Loft Literary Center, 2018-2021
Courses: Surprise Yourself Using Playful Structures to Discover Material You Didn’t Know You Had in You
COURSE INSTRUCTOR (Creative Writing)
The Newberry Library Adult Seminars Program, 2018-2021
Courses: Flash Fiction, Story Starters, Submitting Your Work to Literary Journals
CURRICULUM SUPERVISOR & ZOOPOWER PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR
Roger Williams Park Zoo Education Department, 2000-2002
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER
Denver Academy, 1997-2000