Maria Marchinkoski
Maria Marchinkoski is a fiction candidate in the MFA program at Syracuse. She earned her Masters in English from Harvard, where she is a PhD candidate. Her writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Millions, Washington Square Review, Quarterly West, The Carolina Quarterly, Joyland and Harvard Review, where she worked as an Assistant Editor. In 2022, she was a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellowship. She is currently writing a novel about impersonation, obsession, and the lives of trans women in Boston.
Teaching
Harvard University
As Course Lead
2023 Contemporary Trans Fiction & Its History
As Head Teaching Fellow
2021 Literature Today
Lead Instructors: Kelly Rich & Teju Cole
As Teaching Fellow
2022 Literary Methods
Guest Lecture: Psychoanalysis & Literature
Lead Instructor: Beth Blum
2021 Extreme Reading: The James Joyce Challenge
Guest Lecture: What Comes After Modernism?
Lead Instructor: Beth Blum
Elements of Rhetoric
Lead Instructor: James Engell
2020 Literature Today
Lead Instructors: Kelly Rich & Teju Cole