Valerie Finn

Biography
Born in the former Soviet Union, Valerie Bandura’s collection of poems, "Freak Show" (Black Lawrence Press, 2013) was a 2014 Patterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Her second book, "Human Interest" (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Bandura is a graduate of Columbia University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She was the recipient of the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellowship, and residency from the Vermont Studio Center and Bread Load Writer's Conference. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Cimarron Review, Crazyhorse, Mid-Atlantic Review, Third Coast, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Beloit Poetry Review, Best New Poets, and others. She teaches writing at Arizona State University where she lives with her husband, fiction writer Patrick Michael Finn, and their son.
Education
- M.F.A Warren Wilson College 2002
- English degree. Columbia University 1996
Publications
BOOKS
Human Interest, collection of poems (Black Lawrence Press, 2017)
Freak Show, collection of poems (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
JOURNAL PUBLICATION
American Poetry Review: "Would You Like Some Cheese with That," "Money Is Everything," "Evil," “All Points Bulletin,” “Mama Money,” “What a Peach,” and “While You Were Out” (2015, 2016)
The Gettysburg Review: "Holy Manure" and "Rodeo Good Stuff"
Waxwing Magazine: “FB is My New BF,” “Not Tag But War,” “Pooer Lonely Irony” (2015)
ZYZZVA: “JC Loves the Gays” and “Tell Me Something” (2014)
Honest Pint No. 8 Broadside (edited by Matthew Dickman), Tavern Books Publishing: “There’s Always a Gunman” (2013)
The Minnesota Review: “Step Right Up” (2012)
Ploughshares: “Two Weeks” (2012, received a Pushcart nomination)
Alaska Quarterly Review: “Jews for Jesus” and “Carnage” (2012)
Cimarron Review: “Ka-boom” and “Head” (2011)
Mid-American Review: “A New Car” and “Two-Headed Child” (2008)
The Asheville Poetry Review: “Sweet Onion” (2007)
Prairie Schooner: “Fun and Games” (2007)
HeartStone: “Lou Cataldie: Louisiana Coroner” (2007)
Third Coast: “Freak Show” (2007)
Folio: “Baruch Atah Adonai” (2006)
Soundings East: “Asking For It” (2006)
Beloit Poetry Journal: “Speak the Slavic” (2006)
River Styx: “Cottonboob” (2006)
Agenda [England]: “Goodman’s Anthem” and “The Found Word” (2006)
Best New Poets of 2005 (edited by George Garrett): “Vagina and Cross-Cocks” (2006)
Poet Lore: “How We Came to Be" (2005)
Cimarron Review: “Mother Tongue” (2005)
The Greensboro Review: “Drive-In” (2004)
Hubbub: “Two Notes” (2003; Winner of the Kenneth O. Hanson Award)
Crazyhorse: “Now You See It Now You Don’t” (2002)
The Comstock Review: “Deadnettle and Its Rival, The Yellow Archangel” (1999)
The Lucid Stone: “An Elegy” (1999)
Courses
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 217 | Writing Reflective Essays |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
Honors/Awards
Finalist for The Patterson Poetry Prize (2014)
Pushcart Nomination from Ploughshares (2013)
James Merrill Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center (2013)
Joan Beebe Teaching Fellowship, Warren Wilson College (2004-2006)
Assistantship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference (2002)