Celia Cook
E-mail: celia.cook.lit@gmail.com
Education
Ball State University
2023 - 2025
Creative Writing (MA)
GPA: 4.0
University of Maryland College Park
2018 - 2022
English and Psychology (BA) Double Degree
College Park Art Scholars Program (CPSA)
Jiménez-Porter Writers' House (JPWH)
GPA: 3.9
George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology
2014 - 2018
Literary Arts Program
GPA: 3.8
Skills
Writing and Editing
Communication Skills
Time Management
Organization
Adaptive Creativity
Attention to Detail
Canva Skills
Social Media
Wix and Wordpress
Google Suite
Work Experience
Adjunct Instructor - Community College of Baltimore County
2025-present
Teach Writing and Composition courses
Create lesson plans and syllabi for various courses
Classroom management
Online and in-person courses
Literary Agent Intern - Corvisiero Literary Agency
2025-2026
Review query manager and read submissions for agents
Design, curate, and post social media content on X and Instagram,
including monthly craft talks, book recs, and motivational quotes
Agent Assistant - Midwest Writers Workshop
2024
Schedule and manage pitch sessions between agent and attendees
Coordinate emails between agent and attendees
Assistant to the Director of the Creative Writing Program - Ball State University
2024 - present
Coordinate and run events with the CW Director
Planned In Print 20th Anniversary Festival
Design promotional materials for the department
Represent MA program and CW Department at AWP
River Teeth - Nonfiction Literary Journal
2024 - present
Images Editor for Beautiful Things imprint
Reader for Beautiful Things imprint
Social Media management
Manage AWP table and event booths
Design promotional materials with Intern Team
Graduate Assistant - Ball State University
2023 - 2025
Teach Rhetoric and Composition courses
Teaching Assistant for Creative Writing courses
Create lesson plans and syllabi for various courses
Classroom management
Writing Center Tutor - Ball State University
2023 - 2024
Developmental editor and copy editor
Tutor undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty on
various writing-related tasks
Substitute Teacher - Baltimore County Public Schools
2022 - 2023
Cover classes for K-12
Plan lessons for assignments
The Rumpus - Literary Magazine
2022 - 2025
Read for Essays Team
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - UMD
2022 - 2023
For English Department and Art Scholars Program
Lesson planning and student help
Event promotion
President of Novelist Support Group - JPWH
2018 - 2022
Organize weekly meetings
Edit novel-length projects
Publications and Presentations
"13 Questions with ChatGPT"
Michigan Quarterly Review, 2025
"Answering the Call in 'Telephone'"
River Teeth Revisited, 2025
"Behind the Scenes at River Teeth and Fourth Genre"
Nonfiction Now (2025)
"Writing in the Gallers: People, Places, and Prose"
David Owsley Museum of Art (2025)
"Unpacking Voice: How Creative Writers Speak for Their Communities""
Practical Criticism Midwest Conference (2025)
"Empowering the Hurt Child: An Argument for the Visual"
Practical Criticism Midwest Conference (2025)
"The Ceryneian Hind"
Three Minute Thesis Competition, Ball State University (2025)
"Victorian Love Letters and Writing Workshop"
Ball State University (2025)
"Beginner's Workshop on Zine"
Ball State University (2024)
"Writing and Relationship: 'Tile - When Form Mirrors Content'"
Practical Criticism Midwest Conference (2024)
"Setting Across Genre: 'My Life in Ruins'"
Practical Criticism Midwest Conference (2024)
"Self-Publishing Panel with The Writer's Ally"
Awesome Con, D.C. (2023)
"i killed a deer tonight"
Stylus, JPWH Literary Magazine (2022)
"To Kiss the Moon (Excerpt)"
Stylus, JPWH Literary Magazine (2022)
"The Alem: Mark of Trusde"
Self-published (2021)
"The Alem: Mark of Trusde"
Self-published (2018)
Grants and Awards
2010 - present
2010 - present
ASPIRE Student Creative Arts Competition
Ball State University (2025)
Travel and research grant
Patricia and Anthony Martone Fund
Ball State University (2024)
Research and artist grant
Litfest Poetry Award
Jiménez-Porter Writers' House, University of Maryland (2022)
Sebastian Herbstein Memorial Scholarship in Fiction Writing
University of Maryland (2021)
Jack Godfrey Memorial Scholarship for Writing
University of Maryland (2020)
Carver Center Scholarship
George Washington Carver Center for Art and Technology (2018)