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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 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’s 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

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

“Varying Authorial Roles of the University Tutor in High School Writing Centers.” Teachers on Writing and Writers on Teaching. Emerson College. (2011).

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

SELECTED CREATIVE WORKS 

ಹԾ.” Storm Cellar. Print. (March 2018)

“Cleveland, 2009.” Jellyfish Review. Web. (February 2018)

“EDzܰ.” Hobart. Web. (September 2017).

“BǴǻ.” Green Briar Review. Web. (February 2016). 

“Pܲٲ.” SmokeLong Quarterly. Quarterly Publication. Web. (June, 2015). 

“Izzy Stole Maria’s Night Guard.” Corium. Web. (2014). 

“Harry Holden and Everything After.” Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. 7.1 (2014).   

 “A Pinch of Salt.” The Southeast Review. 32.1 (2014).