Education
In-progress, PhD in Literary, Visual, Musical Thought, The European Graduate School
MFA, Goddard College, 2011 | MA English, The City College of CUNY, 1997
BA Sociology, The University of Maryland, 1991
Solo Exhibitions
“The Weft in Pencil” Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, 2022
“Float Weave” Southern Vermont Arts Center, 2022
“Poetry School” Grey Noise, Dubai, 2020
“Portable Horizons” Tashkeel, Dubai, 2017
“Might: Writing and Stitching” The Project Space Gallery at New York University Abu Dhabi, 2015
Residencies
The Brooklyn Textile Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, 2011
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency Program, 2006-2007
Books & Select Anthologies
SPEECH, Nightboat Books, 2019
inclusion in Best American Experimental Writing 2018 guest edited by Myung Mi Kim, Wesleyan University Press
inclusion in Counter Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene, Wesleyan University Press, 2018
inclusion in The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, Fence Books, 2015
LABOR, Nightboat Books, 2014
inclusion in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde, Nighboat Books, 2014
inclusion in The Eco-Language Reader, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs & Nightboat Books, 2011
SLOT, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011
Cadastral Map, Shearsman Books, 2011
Torchwood, Shearsman Books, 2008
Threads, Futurepoem, 2007
Teaching
Faculty, MFA/BA Visual Arts & BA Literature/Creative Writing, New York University Abu Dhabi, 2013-present
Visiting Writer, MFA Creative Writing, Columbia College Chicago, 2012-2013
Adjunct Faculty, MFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013
Faculty & Interim Program Coordinator, BFA Creative Writing/BA Individualized Studies, Goddard College, 2007-2013
Adjunct Faculty, BA Literary Studies, The Eugene Lang College of the New School University, 2006-2011
Academic Advisor & Adjunct Faculty, BA Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, The City College Center for Worker Education/CUNY, 1998-2006
Select Awards & Grants
The Institute for Emerging Art/Artist Development Program at Warehouse421, one of three selected artists, 2021-2022
Division of Arts & Humanities, NYUAD, course release for research, 2017
Interdisciplinary Arts Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2012
Inclusion in Poets & Writers magazine listing, “50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World,” 2011
Select Readings & Presentations
Urban Planning Poetics at University of Pennsylvania, Featured reader and podcast guest, 2021
“Walking and Writing: A Poetics of Abu Dhabi,” NYUAD Research Conference, 2018
“The Political of the Textilic,” University at Buffalo Graduate Poetics/Just Buffalo Literary Center, October 2018
Panel Facilitator: “Language Weavers,” The Bard College Graduate Center Gallery, June 2018
“Sketching Out/Stretching Out Ecopoetics,” NYUAD/Rachel Carson Center Conference, February 2018
“Walking, Weaving, and Place-Making,” NYUAD Institute in New York, March 2017
Workshop Facilitator: “Weaving and Writing,” Poets House in New York, June 2016
Publishing
JARA Collective, founding member, 2020-present
Board member, Kenning Editions Press, 2013-present
Editor & publisher of Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press, 2001-2011
Faculty advisor, student literary journals at The City College Center for Worker Education, The Eugene Lang College, & Goddard College
Contact: jillmagi@gmail.com