Faculty Profile

Laura Kopchick

Senior Lecturer

Years of Service at UT Arlington

  • Senior Lecturer, (2006-present)
  • Lecturer, (2004-2005)

Education

  • M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Michigan, 1999
  • M.A., University of North Texas, 1994
  • B.A., Austin College, 1991

Publications

  • Short Fiction
  • "The Other Dorothy," Ascent (Fall 2002) also nominated for 2003 Pushcart Prize by Ascent
  • "Cicadas," National Society of Arts and Letters Annual Journal (Summer 1998)
  • "Leaving," Santa Monica Review (Fall 1997)
  • "Scar," Pleiades (Fall 1997, volume 18, number 1)
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  • Reviews
  • Stories in the Worst Way, by Gary Lutz, for Dominion Review (Spring 1997)

Presentations

  • Featured reader. Mark Webster Reading Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 1998.
  • Featured reader. Old Dominion University M.F.A. Reading Series, Norfolk, Virginia, Fall 1995, Fall 1996.
  • Featured reader. University of North Texas Reading Series, Denton, Texas, Spring 1994.

Edited Journals/Collections

  • General Editor of the Katherine Anne Porter Book Award, University of North Texas Press, 2009-present
  • Contributing Editor for Znine, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • Contributing Editor for Dominion Review, Old Dominion University, 1995-97
  • Reader for American Literary Review, University of North Texas, 1993-94

Committee Membership and Community Involvement

  • Founder, UTA Undergraduate Creative Awards sponsored by Half Price Books
  • Member of the Undergraduate Creatiave Writing Committee, The University of Texas at Arlington, Fall 2004-current
  • Member of The Committee to Revise English 125, University of Michigan, Winter 2002
  • Judge for the Ann Arbor Annual High School Poetry Competition, sponsored by the Mid-Michigan Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters, 2000-2002

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

  • Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, April 2010
  • Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in short fiction for the short styory "The Other Dorothy," by Ascent, December 2002
  • Nominated for the David & Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition, University of Michigan, January 2000
  • Semi-Finalist, Mississippi Review Fiction Award 1998, for the short story "The Monkey Woman Who Married the Alligator Boy Makes A Comeback"
  • Hopwood Award, Major Short Fiction, April 1998, University of Michigan
  • National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Competition, Mid-Michigan Chapter, First place for the short stroy "Cicadas," March 1998
  • Roy. W. Cowden Memorial Award, Short Fiction, Winter 1998, University of Michigan
  • Colby Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1997-1998
  • Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers 1994 Graduate Fiction Award, First place for the short story "First Annual Festival of Culture"