Resume

• 2014

  The Norumbega Collective

  Husson University

  Bangor

  Maine Area

  Co Director

  The Norumbega Collective

  Bangor

  ME

  Adjunct Instructor

  Writing and Literature

  Husson University

  Orono

  Maine

  Adjunct Faculty

  University of Maine

• 2013

  Self-Employed

  University of Maine

  I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember

  and a large part of my academic and professional career has been spent helping other writers achieve their goals.\n\nHiring a professional to edit your book can be incredibly helpful. We tend to become “blind” to things that are familiar and commonplace

  and for a writer this can mean missing simple typos

  formatting errors

  continuity issues

  and a whole host of other problems. A fresh set of eyes can do wonders for a manuscript. My role as an editor is to help writers identify their needs: What kind of schedule do they hope to keep? Do they want someone to simply make sure there are no glaring errors

  or are they hoping for detailed critical feedback? How invested are they in revising

  rewriting

  or writing new material? Do they prefer to have an editor return work to in smaller installments

  or all at once? Do they require help formatting their manuscript for ePublishing? When do they hope to publish this manuscript? \n\nSetting goals and expectations is essential to the writer-editor relationship. It’s important for each client to get what they want out of the process

  and I’m here to help them figure out what that might be

  and to provide the level of service appropriate to both the client's needs and the project at hand.

  Self-Employed

• 2010

  University of Denver

  University of Denver

  Instructor of Writing/Literature (graduate student

  Ph.D.)

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  English/Creative Writing

  University of Denver

• 2009

  Eighty Percent Magazine

  Eighty Percent Magazine

• 2008

  University of Maine

  University of Maine

  Writing instructor (graduate student

  M.A.)

• 2007

  Literary Criticism

  Higher Education

  Publications

  News Writing

  University Teaching

  Academic Writing

  Proofreading

  Research

  Teaching Writing

  Teaching Adults

  Public Speaking

  Literature

  Report Writing

  Interdisciplinary Teaching

  Creative Writing

  Microsoft Word

  Editing

  Copy Editing

  Proposal Writing

  \"The Purple Shells\"

  \"The Purple Shells\"

  \"Where are you when you're pretending to be someone else?\"

  “The Quiet Body\"

  Issue 19

  “1-8

  ” excerpt from Norfolk

  Mothers

  daughters

  and sisters must both protect and betray. They must maintain appearances in order to hide their pain. Winner of the University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab

  A Catalogue of Small Pains tells the stories of three generations of women whose lives are overshadowed by the secret cruelty of the family patriarch. Layering vignettes

  illustrations

  and instructions on womanhood in America

  this fragmented novel exhibits the memories of a family

  its heartbreak and pain

  and stands as a delicate testament to a world where the past comes once again into focus.\n\"Packaged as a novel

  Meghan L. Dowling's debut A Catalogue of Small Pains unwraps into so much more. A quilted collection of lyrical vignettes

  pamphlet excerpts

  images and captions are sewn together into a multigenerational story of mothers

  daughters

  sisters

  their struggle and trauma hidden from the world in a sometimes all too familiar way.\" -- Meghan O'Neill \"Mom Egg Review\"\n\nMeghan L. Dowling is a writer

  artist

  and Boston-area native. She holds a doctorate in English/Creative Writing from the University of Denver

  an MA from the University of Maine

  and a BA from Brandeis University. She teaches at Husson University and the University of Maine

  and is co-director of the Norumbega Collective

  whose mission is to promote the literary arts in the greater Bangor

  Maine area

  A Catalogue of Small Pains

  \"Grotesque: An Illustrated Essay\"

  Finalist

  2013 Innovative Fiction Contest

  “The Birds That Pick the Bones Clean Are Holy”

  \"Readme\"

  “Kenefic

  OK\"

  \"The History of Violence

  In Two Parts\"

  Meghan L.

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  English

  University of Maine

• 1998

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  American Studies

  Program Concentration in Journalism

  Minor in English

  Brandeis University