Karin Lin-Greenberg

Karin Lin-Greenberg joined the English Department at Siena College in the fall of 2012. She earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA in literature and writing from Temple University. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Colorado Review, Epoch, Kenyon Review Online, The Southern Review, Story, The Chicago Tribune, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has previously taught classes in creative writing, composition, and literature at Missouri State University, The College of Wooster, and Appalachian State University. She has taught introductory courses in fiction and poetry writing and advanced classes in fiction and creative nonfiction. Topics her courses have covered include traditional and experimental fiction, flash fiction, the novella, the story cycle, memoir, graphic memoirs, the lyric essay, and the nature essay. 

Her story collection, Faulty Predictions, won the 2013 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press and was the gold winner in Foreward Review's INDIEFAB Book of the Year in the short story category in 2014. Her second story collection, Vanished, won the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize from the University of Nebraska Press. Her novel You Are Here is forthcoming from Counterpoint in 2023. 

Author website: www.karinlingreenberg.com/

My Siena Experience

My Teaching Philosophy

What I Love About Siena

The students are the best part of Siena! Because of Siena's small size, I often have the opportunity to teach the same students in multiple classes, and I love watching my students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers. 

My Favorite Courses to Teach

I like to teach any creative writing classes. It's great to see students stretching their imaginations while also learning a lot about how to strengthen their writing.

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• In Crawfordville
  New England Review
  2023
• Disappearances
  Prairie Schooner
  2022
• Equilibrium
  Shenandoah
  2022
• Escapees
  The Southern Review
  2022
• Still Life
  Virginia Quarterly Review
  2022
• Autobiography
  Wigleaf
  2021
• Before
  The Antioch Review
  2020
• Housekeeping
  The Southern Review
  2020
• The Restorers
  Florida Review
  2020
• Migration
  Story
  2019
• So Much Trouble
  CRAFT
  2019
• Lost or Damaged
  Boulevard
  2018
• The Sweeper of Hair
  Chicago Tribune
  2018
• Unboxing
  Memorious
  2018
• Roland Raccoon
  New Ohio Review
  2017
• Swim Test
  Shenandoah
  2017
• Since Vincent Left
  Crazyhorse
  2016
• Small Worlds
  Great Jones Street
  2016
• The Splashing Carp
  Great Jones Street
  2016
• Touring
  Colorado Review
  2016
• Aquatics
  Hayden's Ferry Review
  2015
• Away
  Green Mountains Review
  2015
• Perspective For Artists
  Bellingham Review
  2015
• Career Development
  Stone Canoe
  2014
• In the Orchard
  Five Chapters
  2014
• Miller Duskman's Mistakes
  The Antioch Review
  2014
• Care
  Kenyon Review
  2012
• Gone
  Brilliant Corners
  2011
• Lobsterama
  South Dakota Review
  2011
• Weight
  Silk Road
  2011
• What Remained
  580 Split
  2011
• What Was There Long Ago
  North American Review
  2011
• A Good Brother
  The Antioch Review
  2010
• Back Seat
  Many Mountains Moving
  2010
• Prized Possessions
  Epoch
  2010
• Editorial Decisions
  Cutthroat
  2009
• Waiting Out the Day
  Inkwell
  2009
• Marty and Mary
  Yemassee
  2007
• Bread
  Berkeley Fiction Review
  2006
• Hero
  Karamu
  2006
• The Right Gift
  Bellevue Literary Review
  2005
• Chinatown Haircut
  Eclipse
  2004
• Unsteady
  Redivider
  2004

Awards & Distinctions

• May 2023 Indie Next List
  Category: Research
  American Booksellers Association, 2023
• Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction
  Category: Research
  Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2023
•  Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2021. My story collection will be published in 2022.
  
  Category: External
  University of Nebraska Press, 2021
•  “Housekeeping” from The Southern Review will be reprinted in Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses.
  Category: External
  Pushcart, 2021
•  “Housekeeping” named a Distinguished Story of 2020 in Best American Short Stories 2021.
  
  Category: External
  Best American Short Stories, 2021
• Distinguished Story of 2020
  Category: Research
  Best American Short Stories, 2021
•  My story "Still Life" was a finalist for the Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction.
  Category: Research
  LitMag, 2020
•  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize for my story "Housekeeping," which was published in The Southern Review in 2020. 
  Category: Research
  The Southern Review, 2020
•  My story "So Much Trouble" won the CRAFT Elements Contest in Characterization and I received $1000.
  Category: Research
  CRAFT Literary, 2019
•  My story "Unboxing," which was published in Memorious, was a finalist for Best of the Net.
  Category: Research
  Best of the Net, 2019
•  My story collection was one of the finalists for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
  Category: Research
  University of Nebraska Press, 2019
•  My story "Housekeeping" was a finalist for Glimmer Train's Family Matters contest.
  Category: Research
  Glimmer Train, 2018
•  My story "The Sweeper of Hair" was a finalist for the Nelson Algren contest from the Chicago Tribune, adn I received a $1,000 prize. 
  Category: Research
  The Chicago Tribune, 2018
• Sundog Fellowship
  Category: Research
  Longleaf Writers Conference, 2018
• Fellowship
  Category: Research
  Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, 2017
• Tennesee Williams Scholarship
  Category: Research
  Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2017
• Finalist
  Category: Research
  Glimmer Train Fiction Open, 2016
• Faulty Predictions was selected by librarians and booksellers for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year (Gold) in Short Stories.
  https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/winners/2014/short-stories/
  
  
  Category: Research
  ForeWord Magazine, 2015
• Pushcart Prize nomination
  Category: Research
  Bellingham Review, 2015
• Pushcart Prize nomination
  Category: Research
  Hayden's Ferry Review, 2015
• Semifinalist, Fiction contest
  Category: Research
  Carve Magazine, 2015
• Teaching Fellow
  Category: Teaching
  Wesleyan Writers Conference, 2015
•  Awarded a two-week fellowship at the MacDowell Colony for December 2014 to work on a second collection of short fiction.
  Category: Research
  The MacDowell Colony, 2014
•  Awarded research funding to work on three pieces of creative nonfiction during the summer of 2014. 
  Category: Research
  Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development, Siena College, 2014
• Received a grant for the development of a new course, Advanced Fiction: Research, to teach in the fall of 2014. 
  Category: Teaching
  Library, Siena College, 2014
• My manuscript of short stories was selected from over 400 entries for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. My story collection, Faulty Predictions, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2014 as a result of winning this award.
  Category: Research
  University of Georgia Press, 2013
• My short story "A Disturbance at the Pool" was a finalist for the Mary C. Mohr Editors Award.
  Category: Research
  Southern Indiana Review, 2013
• My short story "Faulty Preditions" was a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Short Fiction
  Category: Research
  The Iowa Review, 2013
• Received a fellowship to the 2013 Kenyon Review summer Writers Conference at Kenyon College. The fellowship included full tuition and room and board to the conference, and I served as a teaching fellow for a fiction writing class.
  Category: Other
  The Kenyon Review Writers Conference, 2013
•  My short story "Weight," published in issue 6.1 of Silk Road was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  Category: Research
  Pushcart Prize, 2011
• Awarded $1,000 to attend weeklong Kenyon Review Writers Workshop at Kenyon College.
  Category: Other
  The College of Wooster, 2010
• Selected to participate in a weeklong seminar about implementing technology into my classes. $1,500 stipend.
  Category: Teaching
  The College of Wooster, 2010
•  My short story "Caught" was a finalist for Many Mountains Moving's Flash Fiction Contest. 
  Category: Research
  Many Mountains Moving, 2009
•  My short story "Weight" was a finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers.
  Category: Research
  Glimmer Train, 2009
• My short story "Appraisals" was a finalist for Third Coast's Fiction Contest. 
  Category: Research
  Third Coast, 2009
• My story "Back Seat" was the first runner-up in Many Mountains Moving's Flash Fiction contest and was published in the summer 2010 issue. 
  Category: Research
  Many Mountains Moving, 2009
• Received full funding ($900) to attend weeklong Imagination Writing Conference at Cleveland State University. 
  Category: Other
  The College of Wooster, 2009
•  Short story "The Most Beautiful Thing" won the 2004 Pittsburgh City Paper Fiction Contest. 
  Category: Research
  Pittsburgh City Paper, 2004
•  Awarded the "Excellent Teacher" Award as the result of my student evaluations. 
  Category: Teaching
  Temple University, 2002
•  Given the "Rookie of the Year" teaching award as the result of positive teaching evaluations.
  Category: Teaching
  Temple University, 2002

Books & Book Chapters

• You Are Here
  Counterpoint
  2023
• Vanished
  University of Nebraska Press
  2022
• Faulty Predictions
  University of Georgia Press
  2014

Presentations

• Debut Author Panel
  2023
  Six Bridges Literary Festival, Little Rock, Arkansas
• Finding the 'Why?': Character Motivation in Fiction
  2017
  Carlow University MFA in Creative Writing Winter Residency, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Character Interiority
  2015
  Wesleyan Writers Conference, Middletown, Connecticut
• First Fiction
  2015
  Printers Row Literary Festival, Chicago, Illinois