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Dalanie Beach

Dalanie Beach, portrait
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, ā€œEverything You’ve Never Hadā€ (2022)
  • Jordan-Goodman Graduate Award for ā€œEverything You’ve Never Had,ā€ Miami University (2021)
  • Third-place flash fiction prize award for ā€œLiminal Space,ā€ 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

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  • 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

  • ā€œUnreadable: The Complexity of Nonbinary Embodiment,ā€ Creative Nonfiction, The Tusculum Review, Winter 2024
  • ā€œLetter to E,ā€ Flash Creative Nonfiction, LandLocked, Issue 5.1, pg. 30, Winter 2024
  • ā€œ,ā€ Flash Creative Nonfiction, Oxmag, Issue 49, Dec 2022
  • ā€œ,ā€ Fiction, East Fork Journal of the Arts, Feb 2022

Visual Art Publications

  • ā€œā€ and ā€œ,ā€ Collage, The Spectacle, Issue 12, Nov 2023
  • ā€œAirheadā€ and ā€œLoverboy,ā€ Collage, Glassworks, cover art, pg. 52, Issue 27, Oct 2023
  • ā€œBrainstormā€ and ā€œUnwritten,ā€ , Jul 2023