Department of English at the University of Virginia

Interests

Mr. Livingood has published essays and fiction in Best New American Voices 2001, Yemassee, C-Ville, The Texas Review, and The Hollins Critic. He serves as the faculty advisor for Meridian, the semiannual literary magazine founded and edited by students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. He is also a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard Reserve, where he serves as an intelligence analyst for Atlantic Area’s Alien Migration Interdiction Operations Section.

Books Edited

• Best New Poets 2007, Samovar Press, November 2007.
• Best New Poets 2006, Samovar Press, November 2006.
• Best New Poets 2005, Samovar Press, November 2005.
• Root, Stem, and Branch: Homegrown Terrorism, CIAG, Sept 2007.
• Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life, by George Garrett, Texas Review Press, August 2002

Anthologies

Best New American Voices 2001. Harcourt/Harvest, November 2001.

Stories and Essays

• “To Us,” CreamCity Review, Spring 2004.
• "Motion Sickness," The Texas Review, Fall/Winter 2002.
• "Signal Codes" Chapbook published by White House Coffee Store Press, November 2002.
• "Charles Baxter: Fiction Resisting the Corilineal," The Hollins Critic, October 2000.
• "From the Pilot to the Bombardier: An Anecdote on Literary Fame," The Texas Review, Spring/Summer 2001.
• "Oh Albany, My Love," C-ville, March 21, 2000.
• "Overnight Sensation, 1974," Writer’s Eye, 1999.
• "The Summer Sea," Yemassee, Spring/Summer 1998.

Prizes

• 2004 Cream City Review Fiction Prize Winner. National competition sponsored by the Cream City Review.
• 2002 Winner, A.E. Coppard Prize in Long Fiction, White House Coffee Store Press.