CV

Monic S. Ductan

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English

University of Southern Mississippi (2018)

Emphasis: Creative Writing and Literature

Exam Areas: Creative Writing, African-American Protest Writers, Modernism

Creative Dissertation: Gullah Babies: and Other Stories

 

Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA (2015)

Emphasis: Creative Writing/Fiction

Creative Thesis: Everything Foreign (short stories)

 

Bachelor of Arts, English

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (2005)

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (2018 to Present)

Associate Professor of English–Tennessee Technological University

Courses taught:

ENG 1010: College Writing

ENG 2130: American Literature (Course theme: working-class lit)

ENG 3400: Intro to Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, nonfiction)

ENG 4440: Nonfiction Writing Workshop

ENG 4430: Fiction Writing Workshop

ENG 4712/5712: African-American Literature

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Daughters of Muscadine, 2023.

Anthologized Works:

“Leaving Gillespie’s Pointe” in Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora. Kinsman Publishing, 2025.”Confederate,” “Being Pampered,” and “Homer, GA” in Women Speak (vol. 10), 2024.

“The Gift Horse.” Troublesome Rising: a Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky, 2024.

“The Daughter.” Stories that Need to be Told, Tulip Tree Press, 2021.

Short Fiction in Journals:

“The Sense of Touch.” Oxford American, 2023.

“Gris-Gris.” Good River Review, spring 2023.

“Gullah Babies” South Carolina Review, Fall 2019

“Black Water” Southeast Review, Fall 2019

“Postgrad” The Fourth River, Fall 2019

“Housekeeping” Adanna Journal, Fall 2017

“Kasha and Ansley” storySouth, March 2017

“Tim” Still: the Journal, Oct. 2016  

“June’s Menorah” Big Muddy, Fall 2015

“Roof Jumping” Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Magazine, Spring 2015

“Suffer Little Child” Prime Number Magazine, Aug. 2013

“In Appreciation of Men’s Hands” FRiGG, Summer 2013

“Everything Foreign” Bartleby Snopes Magazine, Jan. 2013

“Making Fun of Daylight” Blue Moon Lit & Art Review, Spring 2010

 

Non-Fiction:

“Welcome to the Peach State.” Valley Voices, 2022.

“Jocelyn Nicole Johnson: an Interview.” Appalachian Review, 2022.

“I Used to Have a Brother.” River Styx, issue 105, April 2022, pp. 82-84.

“Healing, Slowly, in Cookeville” Oxford American (online), spring 2020

“Fantasy Worlds” Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2018.

“On Being a Black Redneck” Cold Mountain Review, Fall 2015

“Talking White” Shenandoah, March 2014

“Writing My Way Out of the Past” Lunch Ticket, May 2013

 

Poetry:

“Mama Took Grandma to Vote for Kennedy.” French Quarter Journal, 2025.

“Ayanle.” Kestrel: a Journal of Literature and Art,” 2024.

“At Forty, I Consider Small Victories.” Kestrel: a Journal of Literature and Art,” 2024.

“Inheritance” Briar Cliff Review, 2019

“When Mama’s People Ask Me to Come Home” Arkansas Review August 2018

“Photograph: Grandma’s Kitchen, 1939” Arkansas Review, August 2018

“My Brother Pays Me a Quarter to Walk on His Back” Main Street Rag, Fall 2017

“My Brother Hands Me a $10 Bill” Water~Stone Review, Fall 2016

“How to Be Massaged” Blue Lyra Review, Spring 2016

“Edgar and Corrine” and “Five Points MARTA Station” So to Speak, Fall 2015

“Christmas, 1986.” Tahoma Literary Review, Spring 2015

“The Woman in Your Painting.” San Pedro River Review, Aug. 2013

“Man Sold Separately.” Storm Cellar, Nov. 2012

“Willy Nilly Wal-Mart.” DOGZPLOT, July 2012

“Jesus and Black Olives” and “Dreaming in Louisiana” Crab Creek Review, Spring 2012

“Scent and Memory” Montucky Review, Spring 2012

“On Southern Romance” and “Broken Lily Dream” Stone Highway Review, Spring 2012

 

AWARDS

2025 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Contest (Poetry)

2024 Tennessee Book Award (Fiction)

2023 Weatherford Award (Fiction)

2023 Individual Artist Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, $5,000.

2021 Stories that Need to be Told (Merit Prize Winner)

2021 Porter Fleming Poetry Contest (3rd place)

Best American Essays (notable essay) 2019

Denny C. Plattner Award in Creative Nonfiction (Winner) 2019

Tucson Festival of Books Literary Competition (Fiction finalist) 2019

Reynolds Price Short Story Award (Finalist) 2017

Bahr Graduate Research Award (Winner) 2017

Still: the Journal Fiction Contest (Finalist) Oct. 2016

Southern Writers/Southern Writing Creative Prize (2nd place) July 2016

Garth Avant Fiction Award (Winner) 2016-2017

Short-ish Poetry Prize (Winner) Blue Lyra Review July 2015

Flannery O’Connor Scholarship Essay Contest (Winner) 2014, 2015

Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers (Finalist) May 2013

Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Non-fiction (Runner-up) Spring, 2013

Agnes Scott College Writer’s Festival Contest (Fiction Finalist) Spring 2013

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Mammy, the Jezebel, and the Magical Negro in Two Works by William Faulkner: ‘That Evening Sun’ and The Sound and the Fury.” Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University—Montgomery. 2017.

“Aren’t You Scared Over There?” You Are Here Conference, Creighton Univ.–Omaha, 2019.

INVITED READINGS

The Bookshop, Nashville, TN, 2023.

The Letters Festival, Atlanta, GA, 2023.

Southern Writers, Southern Writing Conference, Univ. of Mississippi. Oxford, MS. July, 2016

The Letters Festival. Atlanta, GA. Nov. 2013

Lost in the Letters Reading Series. Atlanta, GA. Dec. 2012