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Sally Shivnan
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Sally Shivnan has taught for the English Department since 1999. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in journals including The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, and Rosebud, and her travel writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Miami Herald, and numerous other newspapers, and magazines including Washingtonian and The Nature Conservancy Magazine. Her travel essays have also appeared in the anthologies Best American Travel Writing 2006 and Travelers' Tales Best Travel Writing 2005.
In 2002 she won a Silver Rose Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story from the ART Foundation, and her work was featured in The Silver Rose Anthology. Other awards include a 2006 Rivendell "E-Less Poe" prize, a 2004 Book Passage Essay Contest prize, and a 2004 Maryland State Arts Council grant for fiction. In summer 2006 she was writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in eastern Nebraska, an area that provides the setting for the novel she is currently working on.
Shivnan earned her MFA in Fiction from George Mason University, where she received the Outstanding MFA/Fiction Student Award on graduating in 1999. She earned her BA in English with certification in Education from UMBC in 1995. Prior to pursuing her BA and MFA, she was a registered nurse who worked in critical care and later in telephone triage nursing.
Sally Shivnan was named UMBC’s 2007 faculty advisor of the year for her service to the university’s creative arts journal Bartleby. She is also faculty sponsor for the UMBC chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society. |
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