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

Syllabus

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