Creative Writing Faculty: Joyelle McSweeney

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of two hybrid novels: Nylund, the Sarcographer (2007), a baroque noir from Tarpaulin Sky Press; and Flet (2007), a science fiction from Fence. She is also the author of two collections of poetry: The Commandrine and Other Poems (FenceBooks, 2004) and The Red Bird, which inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2002. She also writes frequent poetry reviews for The Boston Review, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere, and is currently at work on a translation of the Aeneid as well as hybrid prose works.

With Johannes Göransson, McSweeney is the co-founder of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web journal for international writing and hybrid forms. With Göransson, she was a lead artist on The Widow Party, a collaborative multimedia performance piece created and performed during Returning from One Place to Another: A Poets’ Theater Showcase at Links Hall in Chicago in May, 2008.

E-mail : Joyelle.McSweeney.5@nd.edu

Phone: 574-631-7226

Recent publications:

The Boston Review

Action Books makes the Top Ten List in the New York Times, Inside the List , January 27, 2008.