SHELBI ANDERSON GESCH
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Creative Nonfiction with Teaching Concentration, August 2019 – AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY, Minneapolis, MN
- Creative Thesis: You Are Here: Essays on Finding My Way
- Craft Paper: “Making a Case for ‘Scenery’: Warrant in Nature and Place Writing”
- Teaching Concentration completed May 2019
B.A. in English, Writing, May 2017 – DORDT UNIVERSITY, Sioux Center, IA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Writer, Dordt College Voice, Dordt University, September 2016 – May 2017
- Writer, NISO Notes, Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra, September 2016 – May 2017
- Adjunct Instructor, Dordt University, Core 120 English Composition. August 2019 – May 2022
- Online adjunct instructor, Dordt University, Core 120 English Composition. August 2022 – present
- Online adjunct instructor, Dordt University, Core 180 Responding to Literature – May 2020 – present
INTERNSHIP
Teaching Internship, English Department, Dordt University, January 2019 – May 2019
PRESENTATIONS
- “Memory, Time, and Change,” for Ideafest, Dordt College, April 2017
- “’So What?’: Theme, Warrant, and Layers of Meaning in Writing,” Augsburg University, July 2019
PUBLICATIONS
- Gesch, Shelbi. You Are Here: Essays on Finding My Way. MFA Creative Thesis.
- Review of Christian Wiman, He Held Radical Light for Pro Rege
- Review of James K. A. Smith, You Are What You Love for Pro Rege
- Gesch, Shelbi. “Distance” for Perspectives/Reformed Journal (May/June 2018)
- Gesch, Shelbi. “Wandering Lessons” for The Banner (May 2017).
- Gesch, Shelbi. “The Circle Will Be Unbroken” for Pro Rege (December 2021)
- Gesch, Shelbi. “Through the Fog” for Fathom Magazine (June 2021)
- Gesch, Shelbi. “But I knew she cared about me.” for Fathom Magazine (September 2018)
- Gesch, Shelbi. “Illusions” for Pro Rege (December 2021)
HONORS / AWARDS
Martin Seven English Scholarship, 2016
Presidential Scholarship, 2015, 2016, and 2017
Purple Martin Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2016 and 2017