About

Briony Gylgayton will begin her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in August, 2011. She has won multiple awards for her writing, including placing second for the University of California system-wide 2010 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, and placing for both creative writing categories in the 2010 Pamela Maus Contest for Creative Writing, winning first in fiction and second in poetry. Her Creative Writing Honors Thesis, a manuscript of poetry about psychological disorders, was completed under the supervision of University of California at Davis faculty Alan Williamson, and was awarded the 2010 Elliot Gilbert Memorial Prize for Best Undergraduate Honors Creative Work. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Davis in June, 2010 with a BA in English-Creative Writing and a minor in Art Studio.

Briony works as the head of public relations for the Poetry Night Reading Series, a twice-monthly local Davis poetry reading. She was for two years the Senior Poetry Editor for UC Davis’s official literary magazine, Nameless Magazine, facilitating workshops, critiquing submissions, and performing her poetry at quarterly poetry readings; she currently works as their web designer.  When not writing, Briony works as a personal assistant for various UC Davis professors and lecturers from the English department and University Writing Program, including poet Andy Jones. She is also the web designer for personal development company Eager Mondays, which specializes in creating websites and publicity programs for poets and writers.

A copy of her CV is available per request at briony.gylgayton@gmail.com.