Maria Marchinkoski
Maria Marchinkoski is a fiction candidate in the MFA program at Syracuse. She earned her Master’s in English from Harvard, where she is a PhD candidate. Her writing has appeared in n+1 The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Washington Square Review, Quarterly West, The Carolina Quarterly, Joyland and Harvard Review, where she worked as an Assistant Editor. In 2022, she was a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellowship. She is currently writing a novel about impersonation, obsession, and the lives of trans women in Boston.
Teaching
Harvard University
As Course Lead
2023 Contemporary Trans Fiction & Its History
As Head Teaching Fellow
2021 Literature Today
Lead Instructors: Kelly Rich & Teju Cole
As Teaching Fellow
2022 Literary Methods
Guest Lecture: Psychoanalysis & Literature
Lead Instructor: Beth Blum
2021 Extreme Reading: The James Joyce Challenge
Guest Lecture: What Comes After Modernism?
Lead Instructor: Beth Blum
Elements of Rhetoric
Lead Instructor: James Engell
2020 Literature Today
Lead Instructors: Kelly Rich & Teju Cole