Audrey Colombe
Associate Professor
- Email: aacolombe@uh.edu
- Office: 229D Roy Cullen Building
- Phone: (713) 743-5885
- CV
Audrey Colombe is the faculty adviser for Glass Mountain Magazine, the undergraduate literary magazine at University of Houston. She also supervises the graduate teaching assistants from the Creative Writing Program and teaches creative writing pedagogy. Her research and writing interests cover narrative design (specifically women’s fiction and nonfiction) as well as undergraduate creative writing curriculum.
Education
- B.S., General Science – Oregon State University
- MFA, (Fiction) Sarah Lawrence College
- Ph.D., (Fiction and American Literature) University of Houston
Teaching
- Literary Journal Practicum
- Creative Writing Pedagogy
- Fiction Writing
Researching Interests
- Creative Writing Pedagogy
- Literary Magazine Publication
- Early American Women’s Novels
- The Short Narrative
Selected Publications
- “Novel Writing in the Undergraduate Curriculum,” AWP Writer’s Chronicle, 2015
- “Burning Down the Schoolhouse,” on teaching and community service, Main Street Rag, Winter 2014
- “Art and Access: We’re Nobody, Who Are You?” VIDA: Women and the Literary Arts. May 8, 2013, http://www.vidaweb.org/art-access-at-awp-were-nobody-who-are-you-a-response-to-the-panel-numbers-trouble-editors-and-writers-speak-to-vidas-count
- “The Novel Em,” short fiction – online, Wicked Alice, October 10, 2013, http://wickedalicezine.tumblr.com/post/63689155816/flash-fiction-by-audrey-colombe
Professional Activities
- Member, Associated Writers and Writing Programs
- Member, American Association of University Women
- Member, American Association of University Professors
Honors
- Outstanding Contribution to Student Life, Division of Student Affairs, University of Tampa 2010
- Best American Essays 2015, Notable Essays, “Burning Down the Schoolhouse”
Affiliations and Links
- Fiction Editor/Contributing Editor, Tampa Press & Tampa Review 2001-2014