Courtney Bambrick, MFA

• Part-time Humanities Instructor of the Year at Widener University, 2017-2018
• Finalist, Pavement Saw Chapbook Competition, 2012
• Partial Scholarship, The Well Workshop, Cooscroneen, Ireland, 2008

Courtney Bambrick teaches Writing 101 and 201 as well as occasionally teaching public speaking and poetry. She was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories until 2024. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Evanescent, Spotlong, Mom Egg Review, Landlocked, Clockhouse, Pinhole, Thimble, SWWIM Everyday, New York Quarterly, Invisible City, and more. Her poem "Flesh & Fat & the Universe" was on Healing Verse: Philly Poetry Line. Her chapbook Rape Baby, a runner up in the 2013 Pavement Saw Competition, was published as “Caring for Your Rape” at The Fanzine. Her chapbook Gargoyle was a 2023 semifinalist in Iron Horse Literary Review’s competition and will be published as The Old House by Dancing Girl Press. Her full-length manuscript Eggshells was a semifinalist for the Carolina Wren Press's Blair Prize. Her chapbook World Without is available from Bottlecap Press.