Mary Burger
Writing CV
PUBLICATIONS (Selected list)
BOOKS
Then Go On. Collaged prose works about moments of crisei and epiphany. Litmus Press, 2012
A Partial Handbook for Navigators. Writings on relationships to place. Interbirth Books, 2008
An Apparent Event. (Editor.) Anthology of innovative narrative writing. Second Story Books, 2006
Sonny. Novella on the Trinity atomic bomb test and a family’s dissolution. Leon Works, 2005
Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. (Co-editor.) Anthology of writings on New Narrative. Coach House Books, 2004
JOURNALS
“About the About,” Your Impossible Voice, 2023
“An Absence at the Center,” High Dawn, 2021
“All the Daemons in Paradise,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2021
"The Rose-Lung Damask," "Composition for Knitting." La Vague, 2021
“A Failed Saint Turns to Autobiography,” Journal of Narrative Theory 51.3, 2021
“Honey Mine,” “Oracular Transmissions,” Tripwire, 2021
“Oracular Transmissions,” Tripwire, 2021
“Vibratory Milieu,” The Colorado Review, 2021
“In the Field,” Elderly, 2020
“Vigilance Is No Orchard: An Anamorphosis,” The Denver Quarterly, 2020
“Some New Opinions on Matter,” Galatea Resurrects, 2017
“Matlike,” “Spiral Discourse,” The Encyclopedia Project, 2017
“Mycelium,” “Red Dust Tangle,” GeoHumanities, 2016
“Codes of Incompletion” (audio), Textsound, 2014
“Codes of Incompletion,” Eleven Eleven, 2014
“Matlike,” Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, 2014
“Loookread,” The Volta, 2013
“Laboradory,” Poetic Labor Project, 2013
“Matlike” (excerpt), VOLT, 2012
“The Man Without Stumps” (excerpt), Viz. Inter-Arts, 2012
“Matlike” (excerpt), The Brooklyn Rail, 2011
“A Short Trip Inside and Outside the Box,” Extended Landscape, 2011
“The Man Without Stumps” (excerpt), New American Writing, 2007
ANTHOLOGIES
“His Wrist,” Way Bay Poetry Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2018
“Memory Serving,” Bay Poetics, Faux Press, 2006
“The Boy Who Could Fly,” An Apparent Event, Second Story Books, 2006
“All New Yorker Stories,” Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative, Coach House Books, 2005
“Sonny” (excerpt), Technologies of Measure: A Celebration of Bay Area Women Writers, Small Press Traffic, Kelsey St. Press, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2002
“Hole,” “My Recent Disgust With the Act of Thinking” (excerpt), “Thin Straw That I Suck Life Through” (excerpt), An Anthology of New (American) Poets, Talisman House, 1998
RESIDENCIES
Banff Winter Writers Retreat, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity,
Alberta, Canada, 2019 and 2020
Small Time Writers Residency, This Will Take Time, Point Arena CA, 2019
READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS (Selected list)
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA, November 2020
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Banff Winter Writers Retreat, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, March 2020
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), ArtemisSF, San Francisco CA, January 2020
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Beat Museum, San Francisco CA, June 2019
“Spiral Discourse,” The Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA, February 2019
What Possessed Me (excerpt of work in progress), Banff Winter Writers Retreat, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, January 2019
“Sanctuary at Shattuck” (excerpt), Avenue, San Francisco CA, August 2018
“His Wrist,” Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, February 2018
“Sanctuary at Shattuck” (excerpt), Booksmith, San Francisco CA, May 2017
“Mycelial,” “Red Dust Tangle,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco CA, March 2016
“Avatar,” Endless Summer, Small Press Traffic, Berkeley CA, June 2015
“Red Dust Tangle” (excerpt), Unnamable Books, Brooklyn NY, January 2014
“Red Dust Tangle” (excerpt), [2nd floor projects], San Francisco CA, November 2013
“Red Dust Tangle” (excerpt), Featherboard, Oakland CA, September 2013
Then Go On (excerpt), Bird & Beckett Books and Records, San Francisco CA, January 2013
“Un/Conventional Chorus,” Poets Theater, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA,
January 2013
Then Go On (excerpt), An Evening of New Poetry from Litmus Press, Brooklyn NY, June 2012
A Partial Handbook for Navigators (excerpt), Bard College Roving Reading Series,
Annandale-on-Hudson NY, November 2009
A Partial Handbook for Navigators (excerpt), Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club,
New York NY, November 2009
A Partial Handbook for Navigators (excerpt), Moe’s Books, Berkeley CA, August 2008
Sonny (excerpt), University of Colorado, Boulder CO, April 2006
“The Boy Who Could Fly” (excerpt), The Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY, April 2006
Sonny (excerpt), Brown University, Providence RI, April 2006
“The Boy Who Could Fly” (excerpt), Canessa Gallery, San Francisco CA, March 2006
EDITING AND PUBLISHING PROJECTS
Articiple, online forum featuring interviews with visual artists
Founding editor and publisher, Oakland CA, 2014-2017
Second Story Books, independent literary press featuring cross-genre narrative writing
1998-2006
Narrativity, online forum for critical writing on experimental narrative, culminated in print anthology, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative
Founding co-editor, San Francisco CA, 2000-2004
Proliferation, annual journal of innovative contemporary writing
Founding co-editor and publisher, Boulder CO/San Francisco CA, 1994-1999
EDUCATION
Naropa University, Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Poetics, 1995
Boston University, Master of Arts in Creative Writing, 1990
Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing, 1986