Elizabeth Anne-Mattson Weyl

Winona, MN

(608) 338-9992

beth at bethmattson dot com

Education

2023-2025 Winona State University of Minnesota

Alternative Licensure Special Education — Academic & Behavioral Specialist (SLD, EBD, ASD, DCD)

2007 – 2009 California College of the Arts

Master of the Fine Arts in Creative Writing

1998 – 2000 University of Wisconsin – Madison

Bachelor of the Arts in History, Psychology and Women’s Studies

Selected Publications and Readings

My Own Devices chapbook, Metis Works Press; 2007

Origami Condom, selected poems; December 2007

Main Channel Voices, selected poems; February 2008

Stilwell Hall article, SFist; July 2008

Word World keynote reader in San Francisco; April 2009

Hearsay keynote reader in Oakland; September 2009

Trick or Treat article, MUNI Diaries; October 13, 2009

As Things Should Be featured poet and selected poems; October 2009

Between the Lines, book reviews; May 2010

Little Guy Alive, survival and fitness project; 2011

Nosy Girl, featured interview; 2011

PQ Monthly, interview; 2012

Am I Even Alternative?, MUTHA Magazine, 2013

Bow Ties and Baby Bumps, PQ Monthly Magazine, 2013

All The Single Mommas, regular contributor, 2015-16

“Barely Escaping,” Single Mothers Write on the Patriarchy, The Girl God, 2017

“The God of Wind,” aaduna in exile, 2021

Twitter #poetry Project, 2013 — 2022 (account deleted)

“Spells,” The Lindenwood Review, 2022

Teaching Experience

2023-current Special Education Teacher k-12, Riverway Learning Community

2018 – 2020 English and World Language Adjunct Professor at Viterbo University (and periodically thereafter)

2015 — 2020 Composition and Communications Instructor at Western Technical College

2013 — 2015 Writing Workshop Facilitator at Write Around Portland

2010 Guest Lecturer, Undead Literature University of California, Berkeley

2009 Teaching Assistant, English II California College of the Arts

2009 Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Literary Journal California College of the Arts

2008 Teaching Assistant, Post-Apocalyptic Literature California College of the Arts

2007 – 2008 Writing Coach and Individual Tutor California College of the Arts

Other Experience

2022-2023 Manager and Program Manager at residential, for-profit Memory Care facility

2021-2022 Rural Social Worker for a privatized Medicaid health org

2020 — Grant Admin for local women’s org

2014 — 2015 Vocational Rehab Specialist at De Paul Industries

2010 – 2013 Very Pregnant and then Parenting

2009 Writing and Literature Program Assistant California College of the Arts

2008 – 2009 Press and Copy Editor Femina Potens Gallery

2009 Laser Cutter Technician California College of the Arts

2007 – 2009 Plotter Room Print Technician California College of the Arts

2005 – 2008 Nanny Anderson and Holbrook-Forssel Families

2004 – 2005 Literacy Coordinator Americorps VISTA

2002 – 2004 Childcare Coordinator Campus Women’s Center

Please contact Beth for references.