Mary Burroughs

Current

• Articles Editor at Strange Horizons, a weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction
• Writer and Editor at Freelance Writer and Editor (Self-employed)

Past

• Graduate Instructor at University of Mississippi

Education

• University of Mississippi
• University of Florida
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Writing and Editing

Mary Burroughs’s Summary

Working to professionally continue fiction and nonfiction editing. Completing graphic novel manuscript for young adults within the year. Interested in arts and entertainment review.

Mary Burroughs’s Specialties:

Educated and practiced in penning narrative essays, arts and culture reviews, research papers, and creative copy. Agile and experienced in proofreading, editing, and revising nonfiction pieces, fiction (both short stories and novels), as well as research papers.

Mary Burroughs’s Experience

• Articles Editor

  Strange Horizons, a weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction

  (Non-Profit; Online Media industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

• Writer and Editor

  Freelance Writer and Editor (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

• Graduate Instructor

  University of Mississippi

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — July 2007 (2 years )

  Designed and taught ENGL102: Composition II-Feeling Strange: Identity in Contemporary Narrative; ENGL311: Beginning Fiction Writing; ENGL311: Beginning Fiction Writing Through The Graphic Novel; ENGL352: Selections in Popular Literature Through Weird Fiction: Literary Fantasy and the Short Story.

Mary Burroughs’s Education

• University of Mississippi

  MFA , Creative Writing -- Fiction , 2004 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Graduate Instructor, Associate Fiction Editor on Yalobusha Review

• University of Florida

  BA , English and Art , 1999 — 2003

  + Exhibited book art in Skopelos Arts Foundation in Skopelos, Greece.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Research , English, African-American Literature , 2001 — 2001

  + Produced thesis, Binary Morality in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Sula.

  Activities and Societies:

  + Research Participant in Summer Pre-Graduate Research Program (S.P.G.R.E.) and Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (M.U.R.A.P.).

Additional Information

Mary Burroughs’s Interests:

Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels, Television, Film

Mary Burroughs’s Honors:

John and Renee Grisham Fellowship in Fiction, University of Mississippi Graduate School Honors Fellowship for Underrepresented Minorities, Massey Presidential Scholarship, University of Florida Presidential Scholarship, Bright Futures Academic Scholarship, Michael Hauptman Writing Award

Mary Burroughs’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• expertise requests
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