Collin M. Callahan

Collin M Callahan

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Office Hours

Tucker Hall Rm # 428

Monday/Wednesday/Friday • 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Monday • 12:15 p.m. – 2:15  p.m.

Current Semester Schedule

ENC 1102 Freshman Communicative Skills II • Mo.We.Fri. ­– 8:00 a.m. ­­­­- 8:50 a.m.
ENC 1102 Freshman Communicative Skills II • Mo.We.Fri. ­– 10:10 a.m. ­­­­- 11:00 a.m.
ENC 1102 Freshman Communicative Skills II • Mo.We.Fri. ­– 11:15 a.m. ­­­­- 12:05 a.m.
ENC 1101 Freshman Communicative Skills I • Mo.We.Fri. ­– 2:30 p.m. ­­­­- 3:20 p.m.

About Me

Collin Callahan was born in Illinois. His first collection of poetry, Thunderbird Inn (winner of the 2021 Minds on Fire Open Prize), is now available from Conduit Books & Ephemera. His poems have appeared in Granta, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2021 Bat City Review Editors’ Prize in poetry.

Collin holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. He currently teaches at Florida A&M University. You can find his work at collincallahanwrites.com

Areas of Interest

  • Poetry
  • Creative Writing & Fiction
  • Disc Golf
  • Video Games
  • Surrealism

Education

  • Florida State University • 2022
    Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing
  • University of Arkansas • 2018
    M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing
  • University of Iowa • 2013
    B.A. in English

Work History

  • Instructor • Present 
    Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL

Academic Accomplishments


Poetry Publications:
  • “Coffin Rehearsal” and “Niceville” Grist • 2023
  • “The Birthplace of Barbed Wire” Verse Daily • 2022
  • “Thunderbird Inn” and “Richard and I Play with the Dead” Granta • 2022
  • “Warning Label” Pleaides • 2022
  • “Deerfield Crossing” featured on The Best American Poetry website • 2022
  • “Songs Build Little Rooms in Time” Poetry Northwest • 2022
  • “Signal Transfer Malfunction” Witness Magazine • 2021
  • “I Hummed Her Address Until It Existed in Front of Me” Carve Magazine • 2021
  •  “Out of Picture in the City of Niceville,” “Server Appreciation Day” Seneca Review  • 2020
  •  “Salt & Pepper Diner” Gigantic Sequins • 2020
  •  “America Votes for the Talking Machine” Slice Magazine • 2020
  • “In the Arms of a Peachleaf Willow off I-55” Cream City Review • 2019
  • “The Backwash of the Dead” Ninth Letter • 2019
  • “Horizontal Tuxedo” Denver Quarterly • 2018
  • “The Bus is Late Again” and “Wednesday Before Last” Midwestern Gothic • 2018
  • “When I First Met Richard” and “With Crayons” The Bitter Oleander • 2017
  • “Deerfield Crossing” Blue Earth Review • 2016
  • “Yard Work” Forklift, Ohio • 2016
  • “Vagrant Prophecy” and “Bring a Shovel to the Silo” Hobart • 2016
Interviews:
  • Luckenbach, Josh. “Interview with Collin Callahan.” Iron Horse Literary Review • 2022
  • Sherwood, Ree. “Talking with Collin Callahan.” Carve Magazine • 2020
Book Reviews:
  • Rohrer, Matthew. “Regurgitated by Flowers, The Sky Contains the Plans.” Poetry Northwest • 2021
  • Adair, Allison. “Review of The Clearing.” Aquifer         

 

Awards

 

  • Thunderbird Inn selected as 2022 Silver Medal winner in Poetry in the Florida Book Awards • 2023

  • Featured reader for the Dali Poetry Series (at The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL) • 2023

  • Judge for the Felix Christopher McKean Fellowship at University of Arkansas • 2023

  • Thunderbird Inn (Winner of the Minds on Fire Open Prize) Conduit Books & Ephemera • 2022

  • “Dear Corporation” (Winner of the 2021 Editor’s Prize) Bat City Review • 2022

  • Walton Family Fellowship in Poetry • 2016-2017

Courses Taught At FAMU

  • ENC 1101 Freshman Communicative Skills I
  • ENC 1102 Freshman Communicative Skills II

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