Kirsten Beachy

Kirsten earned her MFA in creative writing at West Virginia University. She is a contributing editor to The Tusculum Review and was an assistant editor/publisher and datebook editor for eightyone in 2006 and 2007.

Kirsten lives in Briery Branch with her husband, a bevy of backyard chickens, two hives of honeybees, and Pierre the cat.

B.A. Philosophy & Theology, Eastern Mennonite University
B.A. Theater, Eastern Mennonite University
M.F.A. Creative Writing, West Virginia University

• “A Butcher of Conscience.” (Working title.) Nonfiction. The Tusculum Review 4 (2008). Forthcoming.
  
• “The Institute of Transcendence.” Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression 2.1 (2008):101-108
  
• “Is that all?” Dreamseeker Magazine 7.4 (2007): 7-11.
  
• “Me and the Martyrs.” _The Tusculum Review_3 (2007): 7-24
  
• “The Comforts of Home.” eightyone Dec. 2006.
  
• “Cinderella Maneuvers.” WriterAdvice.com June 2006.
  
• “Report from Amish Country.” Dreamseeker Magazine 5.4 (2005): 5-10.
  
• “The Day They Ask.” Nonfiction. Dreamseeker Magazine 5.1 (2005): 23-25. [Reprinted in eightyone November 2005.]
  
• Various features, interviews, and columns for eightyone magazine, March 2006-January 2007.
  
• Various features and news articles for Crossroads. 2000, 2005-2006

• “Me and the Martyrs.” Mennonite/s Writing Conference. Bluffton, Ohio. October 2006.
  
• “Motivating Revision Through Written Response.” WVU Writing Program. Morgantown, W. Va. Spring 2005.

“That’s Not All.” Sermon. Shalom Mennonite Congregation, Harrisonburg, Va. Summer 2007

• “Martyrs and Chickens.” Nonfiction reading. EMU Department of Language & Literature, Harrisonburg, Va. April 2007.
  
• “The Derby.” Fiction reading. WVU Graduate Reading, Morgantown, W. Va. Spring 2006.
  
• “The Day they Ask.” Nonfiction reading. EMU Honors Program, Harrisonburg, Va. January 2006.
  
• “Report from Amish Country.” Nonfiction reading. EMU Bible and Religion Department, Harrisonburg, Va. Fall 2005.
  
• MFA readings. Various fiction pieces. Morgantown, W. Va. Jan. 2005, Sept. 2004, Jan. 2004.
  
• The Elephant Market Reading. Fiction. Morgantown, W. Va. April 2004.

• Weekly volunteer, Shenandoah Valley Community School
  
• Summer Peacebuilding Institute: role-play volunteer. May 2007 & 2008.
  
• Shalom Mennonite Congregation, Harrisonburg, Va. Sunday school assistant, worship leader.
  
• Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience Youth Manual proof-reader, 2007.
  
• Judge for WriterAdvice.com’s 2007 Flash Fiction contest.

• The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
• College Media Advisers

• Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2008.
  
• Blackfriar’s Conference, Oct. 23-28.

College Writing with LILAC component
Shakespeare
Weather Vane
News and Feature Writing
Creative Writing-Fiction

• GVC First-Year Seminar/College Writing Committee, Spring 2008
  
• Adviser to The Phoenix, student Literary and Arts Journal, 2007-08