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Kat Gonso

Professor of the Practice, Messina College

Profile

Kat Gonso (she/her) is a Boston-based writer and professor of the practice at Messina College at Boston College. In 2021, she co-founded聽First and Foremost, a literary magazine for first-generation college students. Her writing has been widely published and won numerous awards. She is grateful to be doing the work she loves: writing and co-creating knowledge with students.

Awards & Publications

SELECTED APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS

Outstanding Teaching Award. College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. 2024.

The World鈥檚 Best Short-Short Story Contest. First Place. The Southeast Review

Northeastern University Global Experience Fellowship

Northeastern University Service-Learning Fellow

Northeastern University Humanities Center Grant

PUBLICATIONS

鈥淰aluing the Process: Building a Foundation for Collaborative Peer Review.鈥 With Kristen Getchell. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. Print. (2019).

鈥淰arying Authorial Roles of the University Tutor in High School Writing Centers.鈥澛Teachers on Writing and Writers on Teaching. Emerson College. (2011).

鈥淩hetorical Situations, Research Writing, and Genre: Cross-Institutional Collaboration on Curriculum Design.鈥 With Diana George and John Trimbur et.al. Journal of College Writing. 10. (2010): 1 鈥 42.

SELECTED CREATIVE WORKS聽

鈥凄补苍颈别濒.鈥 Storm Cellar. Print. (March 2018)

鈥淐leveland, 2009.鈥 Jellyfish Review. Web. (February 2018)

鈥淓虫辫辞蝉耻谤别.鈥 Hobart. Web. (September 2017).

鈥淏濒辞辞诲濒别蝉蝉.鈥 Green Briar Review. Web. (February 2016).聽

鈥淧耻产别谤迟测.鈥 SmokeLong Quarterly. Quarterly Publication. Web. (June, 2015).聽

鈥淚zzy Stole Maria鈥檚 Night Guard.鈥 Corium. Web. (2014).聽

鈥淗arry Holden and Everything After.鈥 Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. 7.1 (2014).聽聽聽

聽鈥淎 Pinch of Salt.鈥 The Southeast Review. 32.1 (2014).