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Personal Summary

Kelly Schirmann is a working artist from Northern California. She is the author of two hybrid poetry and essay collections, Popular Music (2016) and The New World (2020), and the co-author, with Tyler Brewington, of the poetry collections Boyfriend Mountain and Nature Machine. She received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ in 2020, where she currently teaches composition and creative writing. She is the co-owner of Omo, a multidisciplinary art and craft studio specializing in stoneware ceramics, sculpture, and woodworking. Her music projects include(d) headband, Sung Mountains (with Jay Fiske), and Young Family (with Sam Pink). She was the founding editor of Black Cake, a web-based record label that released over twenty albums of poetry and sound experiments from 2013-2015. Her blog is called Field Notes. She currently lives and teaches in Missoula, Montana.

Education

B.A. English, UC Berkeley, 2008

B.S. Conservation and Resource Studies, UC Berkeley, 2008

M.F.A. Creative Writing (Nonfiction), Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, 2020

Courses Taught

CRWR 212 | Introductory Nonfiction Workshop

CRWR 312 | Intermediate Nonficton Workshop

CRWR 412 | Advanced Nonfiction Workshop

WRIT 101 | College Writing I

WRIT 201 | College Writing II

WRIT 540 | Teaching College Level Composition

LS194 | First-year Seminar

Teaching Experience

2020-present: Composition and Creative Writing, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, Missoula MT

2023: College Writing, Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT

2021: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction, IPRC, Portland OR (remote)

2020: Poetry in the Anthropocene, Poet's Essay, LiTFUSE Writer's Festival, Tieton WA (remote)

2014: College Writing, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

2014: Poetry and visual art workshops, IPRC, Portland OR

Selected Publications

https://www.kellyschirmann.com/writing

Publications

The New World (Black Ocean, 2020)

Popular Music (Black Ocean, 2016)