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Biography
Brian Philip Katz earned his MFA in Poetry at Columbia University and conducted a year of postgraduate research in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK. Brian鈥檚 poetry, short stories, and essays have appeared in many publications including Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review, Union Station, Identity Theory, Red River Review, and the NY Press. He is the writer of the graphic novels, Neutron Girl and Neutron Woman; and he is the writer/director of the feature film Roman Buildings (2014).
Courses
Creative Writing: Poetry (ENG 57)
Creative Writing: Fiction (ENG 56)
Literature and Film (ENG 65)
Short Fiction (ENG 40)
Introduction to Literature (ENG 30)
Freshman English II (ENG 24)
Freshman English I (ENG 12)
Faculty Advisor
Antheon, Literary Arts Journal
Comic Book Club
Kings Loop, Hip Hop Club
Education
Postgraduate (nondegree), University of Newcastle, UK, 2006
M.F.A., Poetry, Columbia University, 1996
B.A., Literature and Visual Arts, Bennington College, 1992
College Teaching
- Lecturer, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY. December 2010 鈥� June 2011
- Instructor, Introductory and advanced levels of Writing and Composition
Faculty Advisor, Graphic Novel and Comic Book Club - Visiting Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. September 2006 鈥� February
2007
- Lectured and conducted seminars in American Modernism
Visiting Lecturer, Sunderland University, Sunderland, UK. September 2006 鈥� February 2007 - Lectured and conducted workshops in Narrative Fiction
Selected Publications and/or Other Resources
Short Story:
鈥淚f Buttons Had Their Own Wills, Agnes Probably Wouldn鈥檛 Be So Obsessed with Them,鈥� Unlikely
Stories: Episode IV, March 2012
鈥淭he Low Gate,鈥� Rune, MIT鈥檚 Literary and Art Journal, spring 2011
鈥淚ntroduction to Greek,鈥� Union Station, spring 2011
鈥淔ace Paint,鈥� Rune, MIT鈥檚 Literary and Art Journal, spring 2010
鈥淭he Bird Flew,鈥� Rune, MIT鈥檚 Literary and Art Journal, spring 2010
鈥淗esse in Progress,鈥� Rune, MIT鈥檚 Literary and Art Journal, spring 2009
鈥淯nder Water Eyes,鈥� Identity Theory, autumn 2008
鈥淧raxis Makes Perfect,鈥� Rune, MIT鈥檚 Literary and Art Journal, spring 2008
Poetry:
鈥淲alloomsac,鈥� Red River Review, spring 2014
鈥淢essage to the Person in Charge,鈥� Switched-on Gutenberg,鈥� summer 2010
鈥淎cademic Pool,鈥� Innisfree Poetry Journal, spring 2007
鈥淐ommentary on Someone Else, Revised,鈥� Retort Magazine, spring 2007
Essay:
鈥淥n the Corner of 7-Eleven and new York City,鈥� NY Press, November 2013
Graphic Novel:
Neutron Girl, Little Wing and Neutron Girl Productions, New York, NY, 2010 to present
Film:
Roman Buildings, experimental feature, 2014
鈥淲ords, Words, Words,鈥� experimental short, 2015
鈥淭erminus,鈥� experimental short, 2015
鈥淒olls,鈥� experimental short 2015
鈥渢o the filmmaker鈥檚 film,鈥� experimental short, 2015
鈥淭hrough the Wires,鈥� narrative series of shorts, 2015-16
Books
Deities and Demons of the Far East: A Book on Eastern Mythology, Michael Friedman
Publishing Group, New York, NY, 1995. Translated into French, German, and Spanish
Mythology, Tales of Ancient Civilizations, with Timothy R. Roberts and Morgan J. Roberts.
Metrobooks, New York, NY, 1997
Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants
PSC-CUNY 45, Roman Buildings, 2014
PSC-CUNY 46, Neutron Woman, 2015