vita
biography
Neil de la Flor was born in Hollywood, Florida. His creative work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, Sentence, Court Green and other literary journals on the web and in print. Samples and excerpts of his work have been republished on this site and can be read here. In 2006, Facial Geometry (Neo Pepper Press), a collaborative chapbook co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kirstine Snodgrass, was published. Neil currently lives in Miami, FL where he teaches part-time at Miami-Dade College and also runs Frivole Couture, his fashion design and manufacturing business. To download Neil’s curriculum vitae follow this link neil_delaflor_cv.pdf.
Education
2003 - 2005 M.F.A Creative Writing, Poetry. University of Miami. Coral Gables, FL
Relevant Professional Experience
2007 - Part-time adjunct professor of English, Miami-Dade College.
2004 – 2006 Editor of Mangrove, the literary arts journal of the University of Miami, Department of English.
2004 – 2005 Teaching Assistant, University of Miami,
1994 - Present Frivole Couture, Creative Director
Chapbooks Published
Facial Geometry. Collaborative chapbook co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass. N.E.O.P.P. Press. 2006.
Work Published in Literary Journals
“Aphorisms for Frida Kahlo”, “Why?” and “Works of Mercy”. 42opus.com, 2007.
“An Interview with, Neil de la Flor, a Flaming Courtesan.” Wet: A Journal of Proper Bathing, Issue 1, 2007.
“Memoir of a Barbed Wire Fence.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2007.
“Z-A”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton. Elixir Press. 2007.
“Joey and the Banshee.” Sentence, Summer #5 2007.
“Boat with a Boy’s Heart.” Gulfcoast, Summer 2006.
“Poem with a Canary”, “Poem without a Bed”, “Poem without a Pagoda”, and “Poem with a Failed Tornado”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton. Coconut 5, Summer 2006.
“Interview with Mr. de la Flor”. Court Green, 2006.
“Introduction”. Court Green, 2006.
“Conversação Humana”. Opium, Summer 2006.
“The Invisible Chromosome”. Barrow Street, Summer 2006.
“Pink Eye” and “Bi-Aquatic”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton. LodestarQuarterly.com, Issue 17, Spring 2006.
“Skin”. Hotel Amerika, Spring 2006.
“Skin”. Hotel Amerika, Spring 2006.
“In Toto” and “Tennessee Williams Talks to Birds or I’m Talking to Birds”. 42opus.com, 2005.
“Towers of Palladium” and “The Sanctity of Life or How I Fell in Love With π”. Collaboration with Kristine Snodgrass. Can We Have Our Ball Back.com, January, 2006.
“Floyd 2”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton. Three Candles, September 2005.
“The Holiness Code”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton. Three Candles, September 2005.
“Pilgrim Raids”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass. Three Candles, September 2005.
“Closed Eyes/Universe”. Lodestar Quarterly, June 2005.
“The Exegesis of Grease, the Soundtrack”. LodestarQuarterly.com, June 2005.
“The Coriolis Force”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton. Indiana Review, Volume 27, Number 1, 2005.
“The Holiness Code”, “Pilgrims Raid”, and “Floyd 2”. Collaboration with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass.
“Schrödinger’s Bones”, “Collaborators”, “Process”, and “Pars Pro Toto”. Collaboration with Cynthia Daffron and Mario Matus. Admit2.net, January 2005.
“Interview with Maureen Seaton”. Scene360.com, February 2005.
Publications: Forthcoming
Writing Conferences
2005 Vermont Studio Center
2004 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference
Fellowships & Grants
2005 Partial Writer’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center.
2003 – 2005 James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, University of Miami.
Awards & Honors
2007 Elixir Press, Finalist for Almost Dorothy.
2006 University of Wisconsin Press, Finalist for Almost Dorothy
2005 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize Finalist for Almost Dorothy
2005 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Finalist, Kent State University, for Almost Dorothy.
Curriculum Vitae
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