Teaching Experience
Thomas McNeely is an experienced teacher of fiction writing, literature, and composition courses. He has taught undergraduate fiction writing at Stanford University as a Jones Lecturer, at Emerson College, and at Clark University. He is also an experienced instructor of adult fiction writing students at Grub Street Writers, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Stanford Online Writing Studio. He currently teaches in the Emerson College Honors Program and the Stanford Online Writing Studio.
Below is a summary of his teaching c.v.
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Emerson College, May 1997
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, University of Texas at Austin, June 1991
PUBLICATIONS
Ghost Horse, Gival Press, 2014
Stories in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Story Quarterly, Night Train, New South
Non-fiction in Ninth Letter
Reviews in The Rumpus, The Boston Book Review, and The Harvard Review.
TEACHING
Honors Program Instructor, Emerson College, 2012-present
Fiction Writing Instructor, Emerson College, 2008-present
Fiction Writing Instructor, Stanford Online Writing Studio, 2012-present
Jones Lecturer in Fiction, Stanford University, 2003-2006
Adjunct Professor of Literature, California College of the Arts, 2006
Honors Program, Fiction Writing, Literature, and Composition Instructor, Emerson College, 1997-2001
Fiction Writing Instructor, Grub Street Writers Workshop, 1997-99
Creative Writing Instructor, Clark University, 1999
Composition and Literature Instructor, Suffolk University, 1997-99.
AWARDS
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship Program, Finalist in Fiction, 2014
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose, 2008
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Margaret Bridgman Tuition Scholarship in Fiction, August, 2007
Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship, Stanford University, 2001 – 2003
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residence Grant, 2003
Jesse H. Jones Creative Writing Fellowship, J. Frank Dobie Paisano Fellowship Project, 2000
St. Botolph’s Foundation Grant-in-Aid, 2000
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 1999
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, August 1998