Mary Cappello

Cappello is originally from Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from State University of New York, Buffalo, and her B.A. from Dickinson College. Cappello has taught at the University of Rhode Island, as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, Russia,University at Buffalo Alumni Association, [https://alumni.buffalo.edu/mary-cappello-phd-’88-ma-’85 Mary Cappello, PhD ’88 & MA ’85, Award-winning professor]. and at the University of Rochester.

• Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack, University of Chicago Press, October 2016.
• {{cite book| title=Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them| publisher=The New Press| year=2011| isbn=978-1595583956| url=https://archive.org/details/swallowforeignbo00capp}}
• {{cite book| title=Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life| publisher=Alyson Books| year=2009| isbn=978-1593501501| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/calledbackmyrepl0000capp}}
• {{cite book| title=Awkward: A Detour| publisher=Bellevue Literary Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1934137017| url=https://archive.org/details/awkward00mary}}
• {{cite book| title=Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life| publisher=Beacon Press| year=1999| isbn=0807072176 }}

• "Mood Rooms," chosen as the annual Meridel Le Sueur Essay, Water~Stone Review, Fall 2015.[http://www.waterstonereview.com Water~Stone Review], Fall 2015.
• "Wending Artifice: Creative Nonfiction and our Century’s Turn," in {{cite book| editor= Maria De Battista and Emily Wittman | title=The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography| date=22 May 2014| publisher= Cambridge University Press, 2014: 237–252| isbn=9781107609181}}
• "Contact," in {{cite book| editor=Jacqueline Stacey and Janet Wolff| title= Writing Otherwise: Experiments in Cultural Criticism| date= 22 October 2013| publisher=University of Manchester Press, 2013: 34–44| isbn=978-0-7190-8942-8 }}
• "My Secret, Private Errand (An Essay on Love and Theft)," Salmagundi, Fall 2013-Winter 2014, nos. 180–181: 135–183.
• "objective correlatives: a trialogue on love," Hotel Amerika, volume 8, no. 2, Spring 2010, 7–15.
• "Losing Consciousness to a Lost Art," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2007, 329–338.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112233/http://www.swallowthebook.com/pdf/cappello-trees.pdf "The Trees are Aflame"] from My Commie Sweetheart: Scenes from a Queer Friendship, 2004.

• "Courting the Peculiar: The Ever-changing Queerness of Creative Nonfiction" a series of essays, sound texts and performances on creative nonfiction as a queer genre, [http://www.slagglasscity.org Slag Glass City], December 2014.
• [http://bendinggenre.com/2013/04/ "Flow,"] a lyric essay for Bending Genre: Toward a Theory of Creative Nonfiction, April 2013.
• [http://theconversant.org/?p=5366 "Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview"] with David Lazar for The Conversant: Interview Projects, Talk Poetries, Embodied Inquiry, November 2013.
• [http://www.triquarterly.org/craft-essays/lyric-essay-perversion-channeling-djuna-barnes "Lyric Essay as Perversion: Channeling Djuna Barnes,"] TriQuarterly, September 2014.
• [http://blpress.org/news/blp-conversations-mary-cappello-christine-montross "Disconcerting Pleasures; or, The Mysterious Unknowability of the Mind: A Conversation with Mary Cappello and Christine Montross"], for Bellevue Literary Press Conversation Series between doctors and artists, May 23, 2014.

• Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, Individual Fellowship, 2015.[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-academy-announces-berlin-prize-recipients-504578701.html American Academy Announces Berlin Prize Recipients].
• The University of Rhode Island Foundation Scholarly Excellence Award, 2015.[http://www.urifoundation.org/tabid/166/default.aspx URI Foundation Excellence Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801141015/http://www.urifoundation.org/tabid/166/default.aspx |date=2015-08-01 }}, 2015. Nominated in 2014, 2013.
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Creative Arts/Nonfiction.
• GAMMA Award for Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southeast for "Getting the News: A Signer among Signs," The Georgia Review, volume 63, number 2, Summer 2009.[http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/the-georgia-review-earns-10-honors-at-gamma-awards-ceremony/ The Georgia Review earns 10 honors at GAMMA Awards ceremony], UGA Today, May 4, 2010.
• Teacher of the Year Award, University of Rochester.University of Rhode Island, [http://web.uri.edu/english/meet/mary-cappello/ Meet Mary Cappello].
• The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, NYC for the essay, "Can Creative Writing Be Taught?"Bechtel Prize Essay, [http://www.twc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/36-1-cappello.pdf "Can Creative Writing Be Taught?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083445/http://www.twc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/36-1-cappello.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}, Mary Cappello, 2004.
• The Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, with photographer Paola Ferrario, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, for "Pane Amaro/Bitter Bread: The Struggle of New Immigrants to Italy," 2001.Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize Winners, [http://documentarystudies.duke.edu/awards/dorothea-lange-paul-taylor-prize/prizewinners Mary Cappello and Paola Ferrario] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930142336/http://documentarystudies.duke.edu/awards/dorothea-lange-paul-taylor-prize/prizewinners |date=2015-09-30 }}, 2001.
• Fulbright Fellowship, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Russia, 2001.University of Rhode Island Faculty, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111019161715/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/Faculty/Cappello.html Mary Cappello].

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8815rV0GRFE Interview] with Mutter Museum Director Robert Hicks for No Bones About It on the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection
• [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/11/school-reading-mary-cappello-.html Interview] with LA Times Carolyn Kellogg, on the most important book Cappello read in school
• [http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/vt/03/04/interview-with-mary-cappello/ Interview] with Julie Bolcer for Here! TV, on writing breast cancer and its politics, posted by Antonio Gonzalez Cerna from Lambda Literary
• [http://www.propellermag.com/Fall2011/Cappellofall11.html Interview] with Sarah Kruse, on writing the strange and non-narrative assemblage
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160926212533/http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/03/23/author-mary-cappello-on-her-book-swallow/ The Curious Collection of Swallowed Objects], Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, March 23, 2011.
• [http://will.illinois.edu/afternoonmagazine/interview/aftmag0802071/ Awkward: A Detour] with Celeste Quinn for Illinois Public Radio's Afternoon Magazine, February 27, 2008.
• An illustrated reading, [https://vimeo.com/48360531 "The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection and the Art It Has Inspired,"] at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum and Gallery, London, England, June 2012.

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