Salvatore Pane

EDUCATION

M.F.A, Creative Writing/Fiction, 2010
The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Last Call in the City of Bridges, Fiction
Summa Cum Laude

B.A. in Creative Writing, 2007
Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Magna Cum Laude
English Departmental High Honors
Minor: Film Studies

 

PUBLICATIONS

Fiction in Periodicals:

“Let’s Bring Abraham Lincoln Back to Life.” PANK (The Science and Fiction Issue): Forthcoming

“The Retcon.” Stymie Magazine 6 (Autumn/Winter 2011): Forthcoming

“How I Escaped Running a Hot Dog Stand at the Haunted Racetrack and Became the Greatest Volcanologist the World Has Ever Known.” Pear Noir! 6 (Summer 2011): 67-80.

“Something Gordon Never Thought Himself Capable of.” JMWW (Summer 2011): online.

“I Will Kill All the Darth Vaders.” Flywheel Magazine 1: online.

“The Lobbers Share Thanksgiving Dinner as an Asteroid Hurtles Toward Earth.” Emprise Review 18 (March 2011): online.

“The Ballad of Busy Hands.” Annalemma (February 2011): online.

“Man of Ego, Man of Hubris, Save Us from the Sun.” FRiGG 31 (Winter 2011): online.

“How He Once Moved Them.” The Catalonian Review 7 (Winter 2011): online.

“Everything You Say Is the Most Interesting Thing I’ve Ever Heard.” Bluestem Magazine (December 2010): online.

“Comic Book Artist Raphael McHumphries Enters the Void Through His Haunted Nintendo Entertainment System and Comes to an Epiphany About the Nature of Loss and Death.” Dark Sky Magazine 3 (December 2010): online.

“Love in the Large Hadron Collider.” PANK 5.11 (November 2010): online.

“This Is How the Century Is Born.” Annalemma 7 (2010): 22-29.

“Those Endlessly Falling Blocks and Their Holy Patterns and Prizes.” Hobart (November 2010): online.

“Stories Are How We Make Sense of the World.” Metazen (September 2010): online.

“The Skeleton Fingers Have a Calming Effect.” Necessary Fiction (September 2010): online.

“Kanye West Saved From Drowning.” We Are Champion 3: online.

“America’s Lover.” Weave 4 (Spring/Summer 2010): 11-19.

“The Scranton Historian.” Flatmancrooked (Summer 2010): online.

“Two Aesthetes in Pittsburgh.” Corium Magazine 2 (June 2010): online.

“Power and Light.” The Boston Literary Magazine (Winter 2009): online.

“Fences Fly By.” Quick Fiction 16 (Fall 2009): 36-37.

“The New American Royalty.” Folio (Winter 2008): 47-53.

 

Fiction in Anthologies:

“The Scranton Historian.” Of Love and Death: Heartburn, Headaches, and Hangovers. Eds. Steve D. Owen, Rebekah Jay Hall, Deena Drewis. Mixer, 2011: 7-15.

“Power and Light.” The Metazen Christmas Chairty E-Book 2010. Editor Frank Hinton. Metazen, 2010: online.

Book Reviews:

“Zone One.” The Rumpus (October 2011): Forthcoming.

“Short Bus.” PANK (July 2011): online.

“The Great Frustration.” The Rumpus (May 2011): online.

“Exley.” The Rumpus (October 2010): online.

“The Physics of Imaginary Objects.” The Rumpus (September 2010): online.

“Unplugged: My Journey Into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction.” The Southeast Review (September 2010): online.

“Vanishing and Other Stories.” PANK (September 2010): online.

“Nothing Left to Burn.” PANK (August 2010): online.

“Moving Pictures.” The Rumpus (July 2010): online.

“Light Boxes.” PANK (July 2010): online.

“Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.” PANK (June 2010): online.

“Mattaponi Queen.” BOMB (June 2010): online.

“The Canals of Mars.” PANK (May 2010): online.

“A Jello Horse.” PANK (May 2010): online.

“Threadbare Von Barren.” PANK (April 2010): online.

“Kapitoil.” BOMB (April 2010): online.

“Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever.” PANK (March 2010): online.

“Lying with the Dead.” BOMB (October 2009): online.

“Do Not Deny Me.” BOMB (June 2009): online.

“The Great Perhaps.” BOMB (May 2009): online.

“The World Beneath.” BOMB (April 2009): online.

“Nothing Right.” BOMB (March 2009): online.

“The Easter Parade.” Hot Metal Bridge (January 2009): online.

 

Creative Writing Craft and Pedagogy:

 “I Felt Like I Was Part of Something.” HTMLGIANT (October 4, 2011): online.

 

Graphic Novels:

The Black List. Co-writer. Art by Lamair Nash. Arcana Comics. Forthcoming.

Generation Gap. Co-writer. Art by Doug Saquic. Arcana Comics. Forthcoming.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Faculty, English Department, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
2011-Present
Courses Taught
Special Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction

Adjunct Faculty, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2010-Present
Courses Taught
Advanced Fiction Workshop
Intermediate Fiction Workshop
Independent Study
Written Professional Communications
Seminar in Composition

Adjunct Faculty, English Department, Community College of Allegheny County – South Campus, Pittsburgh, PA
2010-2011
Courses Taught
English Composition 2
Basic Writing Techniques

Instructor, Young Writers Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2010-2011
Taught creative writing to classes of 7^th and 8^th graders in a University of Pittsburgh summer program. Developed exercises, worked with other teachers, mentored students, and edited pieces for online and print publication.

Writing Tutor, Student Athlete Academic Support Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2007-2010
Tutored undergraduate athletes in English. Assisted on Seminar in Composition assignments and pieces for Introduction to Creative Writing.

Guest Lecturer, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2009
Invited to guest lecture Readings in Contemporary Fiction for Professor Irina Reyn on multiple occasions. Generated exercises and suggested further readings. Developed lesson plans.

Writing Tutor, Community Human Services, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
Taught creative writing to underprivileged youths in an after school program for 4^th through 6^th graders.

Guest Lecturer, English Department, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2007
Invited to guest lecture Intro to Fiction for Professor Tom Bailey on multiple occasions. Led workshop critiques and met with students individually to discuss their work and steer them in the right direction with written analyses and reading lists.

Teaching Assistant, Writing in Action Day, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2003-2007
Ran fiction and creative nonfiction workshops for high school students. Directed the flow of criticism and helped the students realize the potential of their pieces and genre.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Thesis Advisor, Creative Writing MFA Department, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
2011-Present
Advised theses for second year MFA students in creative writing. Suggested reading lists, edited student manuscripts, and mentored students during every step of the thesis process.

Adjunct Faculty, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2010-Present
Served on the Composition Curriculum Committee, the Writing Events and Awards Committee, and developed learning objectives for all fiction workshops for the Creative Writing Curriculum Committee. Faculty advisor to the Pitt Poetry Club. Faculty advisor to Michael Rosenthal’s Brackenridge Fellowship Project and Independent Study. Judged the Prosody Undergraduate Writing Award in Fiction.

 

REPRESENTATION

Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Brick House Literary Agents
80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1101
New York, NY 10011

 

AWARDS

Winner of the Turow-Kinder Award in Fiction
2010
Won an award judged by novelist Stewart O’ Nan for the best work of fiction produced by a University of Pittsburgh graduate student over the course of the 2009-2010 academic year.

Nominated for The Best of the Web Anthology
2010
Nominated for inclusion in Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthology by We Are Champion for my short story “Kanye West Saved From Drowning.”

Shortlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fictions
2010
Shortlisted by Wigleaf for my short story “Fences Fly By.”

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
2009
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Quick Fiction for my short story “Fences Fly  By.”

Nominated for an AWP Intro Award
2007
Nominated to represent the Susquehanna University Writers Institute in a national competition between undergraduate and graduate writing students.

Runner-Up for the Erik Kirkland Memorial Nonfiction Award
2006
Finished runner-up in an annual award for best creative nonfiction piece at Susquehanna University as judged by Dan Chaon.

Sigma Tau Delta
2005

Alpha Lambda Delta
2004

 

CERTIFICATE

Certificate in Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Completed all necessary coursework to obtain my Certificate in Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric. Displayed a personal interest in the teaching of composition at the collegiate level and took multiple classes intended to develop my pedagogy including Topics in Fiction, Writing and Class, Digital Media Studies and Independent Study: Seminar in Course Design that I created with the former head of the Composition Studies program.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Vampire by Vampire: Genre Writing and the Creative Writing Workshop, AWP 2012, Chicago, NY
2012
Will participate in a panel designed to explore if and how workshop teachers on the undergraduate level should include genre conventions in the classroom. Will present with instructors and writers Alissa Nutting, Aubrey Hirsch, and Jeffrey Condran.

An Introduction to Comic Book Writing, Writer’s Café at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2011
Will prepare a seminar that introduces undergraduate students to the forms and conventions of comic book writing at Writer’s Café, a series open to all University of Pittsburgh students interested in creative writing.

Career Seminar for Chatham MFA Students, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA
2011
Participated in a panel designed to explain to MFA students studying creative writing how to send out their work for publication and how to begin entering the academic world. Presented alongside the Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares, Ladette Randolph, along with instructors Sherrie Flick and Robert Yune.

The Future of the Book Review: How to Break In, AWP 2011, Washington, D.C.
2011
Moderated and participated in a panel designed to break down the effects of the book blogger on the traditional book review and explain how to break into the industry. Presented along with writers and editors Roxane Gay, Irina Reyn, Emily Testa, and Lena Valencia.

The Writers’ Institute Reading Series: Andre Dubus III, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2006
Introduced Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, at a lecture. Read a brief speech outlining Mr. Dubus’ body of work and his relevance to the university population.

Susquehanna University Undergraduate Literature Conference, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2004-2005
Delivered readings of creative nonfiction and led roundtable discussions on the limits of self-representation and the pros and cons of child narratives.

 

EDITORAL EXPERIENCE

Editorial Assistant, Patasola Press, Brooklyn, NY
2011-Present
Edit manuscripts for small press publisher Patasola Press which focuses on experimental work from underrepresented groups. Interview writers for publicity purposes.

Emeritus Editor-in-Chief, Hot Metal Bridge: The Official Literary Journal of the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2009-Present
Contribute guidance to current editors. Previously led editorial meetings, decided the direction and theme of issues, and promoted the magazine at AWP. Initiated an annual fiction contest judged by Tom Perrotta and a podcast series available through download on iTunes.

Short Fiction Editor, Corium Magazine
2011
Read through submissions for Corium Magazine, an online literary journal. Participated in meetings and AWP events. Helped initiate site redesign. Selected pieces for publication in the short fiction section.

Fiction Editor, Hot Metal Bridge: The Official Literary Journal of the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
Read through hundreds of submissions and made the final decision on what to publish. Supervised a staff of fiction readers. Interviewed Charles Baxter, Tom Perrotta, Stewart O’ Nan, Don Lee and solicited work from Jennifer Haigh and Dan Chaon. Wrote book reviews.

English Language Editor, Deluxe Digital Studios, Scranton, Pennsylvania
2007
Oversaw the proofreading of subtitles on various DVDs for Universal and Paramount. Duties included scanning subtitle tracks for grammar mistakes and audio fidelity errors.

Editor, Essay, The Official Creative Nonfiction Journal of Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2006
Read through submissions, determined what to publish, decided on the layout, and solicited work from Dan Chaon.

Nonfiction Editor, RiverCraft, The Official Literary Journal of Susquehanna University
2004-2006
Read through submissions, made final decisions on what to publish, directed meetings with reading boards.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Blogger, The Rumpus, BOMB, PANK, Dark Sky Magazine, HTMLGIANT
2009-Present
Wrote blog entries on current events in the literature world for a multitude of culture websites. Recorded a literary podcast for Dark Sky Magazine with other local writers in Pittsburgh.

Screenplay Adaptation, Benderspink/Arcana Comics
2010
Adapted film scripts provided to me by Benderspink, the production studio behind the Hangover, and adapted them into comic books for Arcana Comics.

Staff Writer, Broken Frontier, Online
2007-2008
Wrote a weekly column on sequential art, reviewed new work and interviewed various artists and writers as assigned by my editor.

Staff Writer, …ISM, Selinsgrove, PA
2006
Scanned through press kits for upcoming films and converted interviews with directors into larger essays connected to the artistic movement showcased in any particular issue.

 

INVITED READINGS

PANK Reading at AWP, Chicago, IL
3/1/2012

The 15^th Anniversary Celebration of the Writers Institute, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
9/17/2011

Lit Journal Combination: The Annalemma/Avery/La Petite Zine Release Party, Brooklyn, NY
7/1/2011

The Panther Hollow Reading Series, Pittsburgh, PA
3/1/2011

Divination in DC: The Annalemma/PANK/Mud Luscious Press Reading at AWP, Washington, DC
2/3/2011

Pittsburgh Small Press Festival Finale/Weave 4 Launch, Pittsburgh, PA
9/25/2010

The University of Pittsburgh’s Creative Writing Awards Ceremony, Pittsburgh, PA
4/23/2010

The Panther Hollow Reading Series, Pittsburgh, PA
11/3/2009

The Fuel and Fuddle Reading Series, Pittsburgh, PA
9/13/2007

 

REFERENCES

Matt Bell
Lecturer
University of Michigan