Christiana Langenberg

Christiana L. Langenberg teaches in the English Department and Women's and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State University, where she is also an academic advisor and advisor for the student-run literary journal, Sketch. She was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the U.S with her Dutch father and Italian mother. Raised trilingually in rural Nebraska, she was naturalized when she was 17. She has a Master's Degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and a B.S in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Colorado, in treatment centers and a maximum security prison; she has been teaching at ISU since 1986. She is the winner of the Italian Paths of Culture Press Translation Prize, Drunken Boat Panliterary Award for Fiction, the  Chelsea Award for Short Fiction and a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. Her collection of stories Here is What You'll Do, was a finalist in the 2010 Flanner O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.  She has a bilingual collection of short stories, Half of What I Know; other stories can be found in Glimmer Train, Drunken Boat, Storyglossia, Literary Salt, Carve, Chelsea, Green Mountains Review, American Literary Review, Lullwater Review, The Blue Moon Review, and a variety of literary formats.

Office/Office Hours

• office: 343 Ross
• office phone: (515) 294-1655
• email: clang@iastate.edu

Publications and Awards

• “Between Word Greed and Abandonment: Learning to Love the Process,” Keynote speaker, Midwest Writing Center David R. Collins Writers' Conference, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA June 27-29, 2013.

• "Foiled," essay, Honorable Mention, 2012 Gulf Coast Award for Nonfiction.

• "Foiled," Finalist, Family Matters Contest, Glimmer Train, April, 2012.

• Great River Writers' Retreat, winner, Midwest Writing Center, Davenport, IA  Sept. 4-10, 2011.

•"The Alphabet of Girls," story, Finalist, Fiction Prize, New South, Vol. 3, No. 2, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2010.

• Here is What You'll Do, collection of stories, Finalist, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2010.

• "Or," 3rd Place, Fiction contest, LUMINA, Vol. IX, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Fall 2010.

• "Standing in for God," story, Pisgah Review, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Brevard College, Brevard NC, Winter 2010.

• "'Nothing Personal' Intro to Fiction Writing 201 by A. Larsen," story, Drunken Boat 12, http://www.drunkenboat.com/db12/02fic/langenberg/index.php

• "House of Nightlights," short story, Finalist, American Fiction Prize 2009.

• "Maybe It's a Wednesday," short story, Finalist, Fiction Open, Glimmer Train, March 2009.

• Half of What I Know, bilingual collection of short stories, Italian Paths of Culture Press, Milan, Italy, January 2009. (http://www.ipocpress.it/)

•"Electric Blue," short story, Finalist, Very Short Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train, August 2008.

• "Or," short story, Finalist, Fiction Open, Glimmer Train, August 2008.

•  How We Accomplish Breathing, collection of short stories, Finalist, New Rivers Press Many Voices Project, 2008, Moorhead, MN.

• “ Night of the Mixed Metaphor and the Case of the Endless Story," Finalist, short story, Glimmer Train, Family Matters Award, January 2008,

• “Half of What I Know,” short story, Glimmer Train, Issue # 64, Fall 2007

• “The Wide Ends of Almonds,” short story, Finalist, Dogwood, Fairfield University, Spring 2007.

• “Pearl,” short story, Pindeldyboz, www.pindeldyboz.com, Spring 2007.

• “Standing in for God, short story, Finalist, New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award, Kansas City, MO, 2007

• “Electric Blue,” short story, Finalist/Honorable Mention,Flash Fiction Contest 2006, Many Mountains Moving, Spring 2007.

• “Lost Wax,” short story, Finalist, Flash Fiction Contest 2006, Many Mountains Moving.

• “In-Coming,” short story, Finalist, Fiction Prize, 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee Storyglossia, www.storyglossia.com .

• "Let's Say It's Possible," short story, 2nd Place Winner, So to Speak's Spring Fiction Award, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Vol.15, No. 2, So to Speak Summer 2006.

• "Maura Takes the Multiple Choice Test of Her Life So Far," short story, Winner, Drunken Boat 2006 Panliterary Award for Fiction, 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee, Drunken Boat #8, www.drunkenboat.com, 2006.

• “Maybe It’s a Wednesday,” short story, Finalist, Nimrod/Hardman Awards 2006.

• “Pearl” short story, Finalist, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train, Summer 2006.

• “Standing in for God,” short story, Finalist, Summer Fiction Open, Glimmer Train, 2006.

• “In-Coming,” short story, Finalist, New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Award, Kansas City, MO, 2006.

• “Maybe It’s a Wednesday,” short story, Finalist, VERB Fiction Contest, VERB Magazine, Decatur, GA, 2006.

• “In-Coming,” story, Finalist, 2005 Dana Awards, Greensboro, NC.

• "Half of What I Know," short story, 3rd Place Winner, Glimmer Train Winter Fiction Open 2006, publication forthcoming in Glimmer Train, 2007.

• “Chocolate Revel,” short story, Literary Salt, Issue 5, 2005, http://www.literarysalt.com

• “Tumble Dry Low Heat” short story, Carve Magazine, Vol. 5 No. 6, Nov. 1, 2004.

• “Not Then, Not Now,” short story, Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short Story Award for New Writers, Fall 2004.

• “Maybe It’s a Wednesday,” short story, Finalist, Glimmer Train, Fiction Open, Summer 2004.

• “Half of What I Know,” 3rd place winner, 2003 Long Fiction Contest, White Eagle Coffee Store Press, Fox River Grove, IL. July 2004.

• “Bourbon,” Finalist, 2003 Long Fiction Contest, White Eagle Coffee Store Press, Fox River Grove, IL. July 2004.

• “The Mean Distance From the Sun," short story, Winner, 2003 Chelsea Award for Fiction, Chelsea 75, N.Y, N.Y., June 2004.

• “Spiraling,” short story, Sexing the Political, May 2004 http://www.sexingthepolitical.com/2004/

• “Maura Takes the Multiple Choice Test of her Life so Far,” Finalist, Writers@Work 2004 Fiction Fellowship Competition, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2004.

• “Between Body and Language,” short story, Green Mountains Review, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Fall 2003.

• “Between Body and Language,” short story, listed in Top 25 Winners and Finalists, Glimmer Train, Short Story Award, Spring 2003.

• "Love Addiction at the Dry Cleaners," poem, Twist, Ames, Iowa, June 2002.

• "Regret," short story, American Literary Review, Vol. 13 No. 1, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, Spring 2002.

• "Standing in for God," short story, Carriage House Review, Decatur, Georgia, December 2001.

• "Like This, Only Fathoms Deeper," short story, The Blue Moon Review, (www.TheBlueMoon.com), June, 2001.

• “Lie to Me,” short story, The Lullwater Review, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, January, 2001.

Interests

• Creative Writing: Fiction, Nonfiction, poetry; multicultural and women's fiction and nonfiction; experimental fiction, 2nd person point of view.
• Contemporary Fiction; women's fiction; nonfiction, the lyric essay.