My Curriculum Vitae

Name: Vanessa Raney

You can find my first interview (in Croatian) here: http://m.tportal.hr/vijesti/404735/Ova-Amerikanka-obozava-Narodni-radio-i-kaze-Hrvatska-jedina-zemlja-u-kojoj-se-osjecam-kao-doma.html (just note that my last name isn't Smiles, but Raney).

Publications

Chapbooks
Raney, Vanessa. The idea of woman [Croatian and English] (2015). dancing girl press & studio. Features 16 bilingual art poems, one bilingual poem in four parts (with drawings), and one English poem (with photo); also includes sketches of Matryoshka Dolls. Available to order on dulcet: http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/the-idea-of-woman-poems-and-artwork-vanessa-raney

Chapters
Raney, Vanessa. "She floats inside my head." In Dear Nana: Grandmother tales of love, secrets, and going home, ed. by Robyn M. McGee. Pegasus Books, 2015.

Animated GIFs
Raney, Vanessa. "To Milton." shufPoetry (Fall, 2015), no. 5. Online at: http://www.shufpoetry.com/

Raney, Vanessa. "Simbol krune / Symbol of the crown" [Bilingual in Croatian and English]. Poetry Invitational (1 Apr. 2015). Online at:
http://poetryinvitational.com/post/115264812676/simbol-krune-symbol-of-the-crown-vanessa-raney#notes

Raney, Vanessa. "Lijepa je i (Beautiful and)" [Bilingual in Croatian and English]. S/tick (21 Jan. 2015). 'Stickers: View contributors' work' section. Online at: http://s-tick.tumblr.com/post/108755339115/s-tick-is-very-pleased-to-present-our-first

Art
Raney, Vanessa. "I see." S/tick (Fall 2015), vol. 3, no. 1: 3-5. Online at: https://www.dontdiepress.org/s-tick/Issue3_1.pdf 

Raney, Vanessa. "Woman." Crab Fat Magazine (May 2015), no. 4: 57 Online at: https://www.crabfatmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/CFM-Issue-4.pdf

Fiction
Raney, Vanessa. "Between the branches." Z-composition (Oct. 2014). Online at: http://www.zombiepoetry.com/2014_10/flash-fiction.html

Raney, Vanessa. "Pretending it was normal." Crab Fat Literary Magazine (7 Sept. 2014). Online at: http://crabfatmagazine.com/2014/09/pretending-it-was-normal/.

Raney, Vanessa. "Getting Away from the Fish." Flash Fiction Magazine (19 May 2014). Online at: http://flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2014/05/19/getting-away-from-the-fish/#more-401

Raney, Vanessa. "The Cry Rite." Cliterature (Winter 2013), vol. 30. (For physical copy of journal, order at: http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/cliterature-motherhood/818e99d0-87f0-4d57-b186-6509d3e96b77)

Raney, Vanessa. "So Begins Their Dialogue." S/tick (Dec. 2013), vol. 1, no. 4: 4-6. Online at: https://www.dontdiepress.org/s-tick/Issue4.pdf

Raney, Vanessa. “The Things that Flash Across Your Face.” Sugar Mule, no. 20 (Fall 2004).
Online at: http://sugarmule.x10.mx/20frame.htm

Raney, Vanessa. “To Save a Man.” Swans Commentary (15 Dec. 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney08.html.

Raney, Vanessa. “Night With Grandpa.” In newsletter of The Positive Prospector (Aug. 1994).

Short Shorts (prose works 100 words or less)
Raney, Vanessa. "Touching Them." Every Day, A Century (Sept. 2013). Online at: http://everydayacentury.com/?page=2 

Nonfiction
Raney, Vanessa. "Something precious." The Rain, Party & Disaster Society (8 Dec. 2014): Online at: https://issuu.com/rpdsociety/docs/december_2014_702d6ceebca5c6

Raney, Vanessa. "Water Well." Foliate Oak Literary Magazine (Nov. 2013). Online at: http://www.foliateoak.com/november-2013.html.

Raney, Vanessa. “The Question of Turnaround.” Swans Commentary (1 Dec. 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney07.html

Raney, Vanessa. “Disassociating Patriarchy from Maleness.” Swans Commentary (17 Nov. 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney06.html

Raney, Vanessa. “The Word of Choice.” Swans Commentary (3 Nov. 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney05.html

Raney, Vanessa. “What It Means to Be Human: Race and Choice." Swans Commentary (20 Oct. 2003). Online at http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney04.html.

Raney, Vanessa. “It Started with Lucky Charms.” The Bayou Review (Spring 2002): 32-35.

Raney, Vanessa. “Even in war, though, you don’t have to hate.” In Houston newsletter of Our Lady of the Lake University 17, no. 3 (6-13 Oct. 2002).

Art Poems
Raney, Vanessa. "Days of Ends" [series]. shufPoetry (Fall, 2015), no. 5. Online at: http://www.shufpoetry.com/

Raney, Vanessa. "The power of the audio" [with audio recording]. Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature (Dec. 2014), vol. 8, no. 4. Online at: http://www.wordgathering.com/issue32/poetry/raney.html

Raney, Vanessa. "To lift a snail up" (2 Dec. 2014). Thought Notebook, issue 3. (For print copy of journal, go to: https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Occurrences-Thought-Notebook-Journal/dp/099666355X) (For digital copy of journal, go to Magzter Digital Newstand: https://www.magzter.com/US/Thought-Collection-Publishing/Thought-Notebook-Journal/Art/75886)

Raney, Vanessa. "From mountains rising" [acrostic], "Thick with guilty ghosts" [art poem]. 2014, no. 4. Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. Online at: http://nebula.wsimg.com/a874037a2cd6d64e89f8a5dc672836ff?AccessKeyId=73FA49C2B0222137FE94&disposition=0&alloworigin=1. Video reading online at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5oukWk-ovpQKCfHkxw2sQ

Raney, Vanessa. "Blame it on the night" (Spring 2014), no. 4. shufPoetry. Online at: http://www.shufpoetry.com/

Raney, Vanessa. "Naked." Les Femmes Folles: Women in Art (10 Apr. 2014). 'Our Intimates and Our Fools' (National Poetry Month project). Online at: http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/82284910571/our-intimates-our-fools-dirty-haiku-project

Poetry Invitational monthly challenges (when available)
[found poetry]: See 'Animated GIFs' section.

Raney, Vanessa. "V"-"I" [limerick contest]. Poetry Invitational (16 Dec. 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/tagged/vanessa%20raney

Raney, Vanessa. "About Sarajevo" [one-sentence poem, editors' rules]. Poetry Invitational (28 June 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/post/90155968176/about-sarajevo

Raney, Vanessa. "Contrast, thus" [century poem, editors' rules]. Poetry Invitational (21 May 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/post/86423249286/contrast-thus

Raney, Vanessa. "Dear Imagination" [epistolary]. Poetry Invitational (20 Apr. 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/post/83301775041/dear-imagination

Raney, Vanessa. "Holds the clock" [acrostic]. Poetry Invitational (21 Mar. 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/post/80276690171/holds-the-clock

Raney, Vanessa. "With dark dirt" [terza rima]. Poetry Invitational (17 Feb. 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/post/76962105071/with-dark-dirt

Raney, Vanessa. "Reflecting" [tanka]. Poetry Invitational (22 Jan. 2014). Online at: http://poetryinvitational.tumblr.com/post/74172849653/reflecting

Poetry
Raney, Vanessa. [haiku]. cattails (Jan. 2016). Online at: http://cattailsjournal.com/backissues/cattails161.pdf

Raney, Vanessa. "The same source" [mixed media]. shufPoetry (Fall, 2015). Online at: http://www.shufpoetry.com/

Raney, Vanessa. "I saw Him in my cellmate" [text-only version of art poem series]. Lalitamba (Annual 2015). For the complete vision, go online at: http://vanessa-raney2artpoemseries.blogspot.com/2014/02/i-saw-him-in-my-cellmate.html

Raney, Vanessa. "Mermaid song" [art and text]. Crab Fat Literary Magazine (12 Apr. 2015). Online at: http://crabfatmagazine.com/2015/04/mermaid-song/

Raney, Vanessa. Three Poems. "A face of beauty." "Her seeming agitation." "A loving trial." [International Women's Day.] Camel Saloon, 'Eye of the Needle' series (8 Mar. 2015.), no. 7. Online at: http://theeyeoftheneedle7.blogspot.com/

Raney, Vanessa. "If she can hear." The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary & Visual Arts (Fall 2014), vol. 14, no. 1. (For physical copy of journal, order at: http://www.upstate.edu/bioethics/thehealingmuse/contribute.php)

Raney, Vanessa. "Need turns." Bluestockings Magazine (14 Oct. 2014). Online at: http://bluestockingsmag.com/2014/10/14/need-turns-2/

Raney, Vanessa. "A beauty mewling." Bluestockings Magazine (6 Oct. 2014). Online at: http://bluestockingsmag.com/2014/10/06/a-beauty-mewling/

Raney, Vanessa. "No matter what." The Birds We Piled Loosely (Oct. 2014), p. 80 (PDF p. 41). Online at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5699e21b5dc6de524229eb8c/t/56a198d069a91a479f67fd0d/1453431073070/BPL_FINAL_1.pdf

Raney, Vanessa. "Dig deeper." Poehemian (Aug. 2014). Online at: http://www.poehemian.com/august-2014-archives.html

Raney, Vanessa. "Older and insisting." vox poetica (4 July 2014). Online at: http://voxpoetica.com/older-insisting/

Raney, Vanessa. "What the schools teach." The Camel Saloon (25 May 2014). Online at: http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-schools-teach.html Note that it was also a monthly pick for 'Editor's Choice' (shared spotlight), and additionally appears in The Second Hump (2 June 2014), vol. IV, online at: http://secondhump4.blogspot.com/

Raney, Vanessa. "In a burning kitchen." The Camel Saloon (11 May 2014). Online at: http://thecamelsaloon.blogspot.com/2014/05/in-burning-kitchen.html.

Raney, Vanessa. "Texas roots" [haiku sequence]. cattails (May 2014). Online at: http://cattailsjournal.com/backissues/cattails142.pdf

Raney, Vanessa. "Confabulating a wolf" [experimental tanka series]. pacificREVIEW. (2014). Strangely Ever After (ed. by J. Phillips), p. 8.

Raney, Vanessa. Two tanka. The Bamboo Hut: Journal of Contemporary English Language Tanka (2014), vol. 1, no. 3: PDF p. 24. Online at: http://thebamboohut.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/2/1/14210066/bamboo_hut_vol_1_no3.pdf (For physical copy of journal, go to: http://www.lulu.com/shop/steve-wilkinson/the-bamboo-hut-volume-1-issue-3/paperback/product-21597025.html)

Raney, Vanessa. Haiku. Haiku Journal (n.d.), no. 26. Online at: http://haikujournal.org/e-issues/ (For physical copy of journal, go to https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/haiku-journal-c-3/haiku-journal-issue-26-p-79.html?zenid=9s66g7i2sfbhj3pcrg6ijepoo6)

Raney, Vanessa. "City Girl." The Voices Project (15 Jan. 2014). Online at: http://www.thevoicesproject.org/1/post/2014/01/city-girl-by-vanessa-raney.html.

Raney, Vanessa. "What It Was." The Muse: An International Journal of Poetry (Dec. 2013), vol. 3, no. 2. Online at: http://themuse.webs.com/dec%202013/Vanessa%20Raney.htm

Raney, Vanessa. "You Keep On Going." Dead Flowers: A Poetry Rag (31 Oct. 2013), vol. 2, no. 3. Guest ed. by Sydney James. Online at: https://bohemianpupil.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/vol2_no3.pdf


Raney, Vanessa. Three Poems: "I breathe," "What Frivolity," and "Listen." Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts XV, issue 4, no. 168 (Apr. 2007). Online at: http://users.synapse.net/kgerken/Y-0704.HTM

Raney, Vanessa. "Design Your Vision." Chronogram Magazine: Arts, Culture, Spirit (Nov. 2006). Print version "distributed in counties abutting the mighty Hudson River."

Raney, Vanessa. Eleven Poems: "See Yourself in Him" (c1), "Virus" (c1), "I Take My Center" (c1), "Heady on the Current" (c1), "To Ignore Me" (c1) "Soon Enough" (c2), "Out Now" (c2), "Beside Me" (c2), "From Human Reach" (c2), "Try Me" (c2), and "If it pleases" (c2). PoetryCemetery.com. Online at: http://www.poetrycemetery.com/raneyv.htm [These originally appeared in separate issues in 2006, but have since been randomly archived.]

Raney, Vanessa. “Bird in a Store.” In NILAS Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2004): 30.

Raney, Vanessa. “All Alone She Tried.” The Scholar & Feminist (S&F) Online 2, no. 3 (Summer 2004). Published by The Bernard Center for Research on Women. Online at: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/family/raney_01.htm

Raney, Vanessa. “For Jeff and Laura, be blessed be.” Theolog (Feb. 2004): 12.

Raney, Vanessa. “Strengthened By.” Swans Commentary (5 Jan. 2004). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art10/vraney09.html

Raney, Vanessa. “One Voice Strong.” Swans Commentary (6 Oct. 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney03.html

Raney, Vanessa. “Step Back.” Swans Commentary (18 Aug. 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney02.html

Raney, Vanessa. “To Stay Myself Blind.” Swans Commentary (21 July 2003). Online at: http://www.swans.com/library/art9/vraney01.html

Raney, Vanessa. “What You Kill.” WireTap Magazine (9 Apr. 2003). Online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/15597/what_you_kill

Raney, Vanessa. “Human Allusion.” Asphyxia Digest (Winter/Spring 2003): 11

Raney, Vanessa. “Look at Her.” Quirk (2003): 76.

Raney, Vanessa. “Thinking of the Late Mrs. Ung Trinh.” The Bayou Review (Fall 2002): 14.

Raney, Vanessa. “Forbearance.” The Thing Itself (2002): 57.

Raney, Vanessa. Two Poems: “Images” and “Too Late.” Papyrus Literary Magazine (1994): 67; 79-80.

Raney, Vanessa. Three poems: “William Shakespeare’s My Husband,” “The Carpet,” and "Neoiconoclastic Controversy.” Five haikus. Papyrus Literary Magazine (1993): 12, 62, 91; 12, 18, 22, 44, 96.

Peer-Reviewed

Raney, Vanessa. "Where Ordinary Activities Lead to War: Street Politics in Seth Tobocman's War in the Neighborhood." M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture 9, no. 3 (July 2006). Online at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0607/01-raney.php.

Raney, Vanessa. "Child Labor and Lewis Hine: His Life and Work." 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies 16 (Aug. 2005). Online at: https://fortyninthparalleljournal.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/3-raney-child-labour-and-lewis-hine.pdf

Raney, Vanessa and Madeleine Pepin. "This Life in WebCT." Academic Exchange Quarterly 7, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 85-90. [To order copy of article, go to: http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/karte1.htm]

Microsoft Sway presentation
Raney, Vanessa. 22 slike bojanjem prstima + adaptacija "Ivica i Marica" u hrvatski i na engleskome (prevod): 22 fingerpaintings + adaptation of "Hansel and Gretel" in Croatian and English (trans.) [Croatian and English] (5 Mar. 2017). Online at:https://sway.office.com/ygnanhsPJ9cGlEZv

Raney, Vanessa. Kako sam sagradila svoju kućicu od bombona, video rezultata + upute i videa s audiom u engleski [Croatian, with photographs] (20 Feb. 2017). Online at: https://sway.office.com/ZvO4IRcYuz4nJ8Qb

Raney, Vanessa. Vježbanje hrvatskog jezika koristeći "smibova nagradana križaljka" [Croatian] (10 Jan. 2017). Online at: https://sway.office.com/j8wmKn1Eyj78gMwa

Raney, Vanessa. Razumivanje hrvatskog jezika (matematika) koristeći Baš je slatka ova matka: Male mozgalice za prvašice [Croatian] (2 Jan. 2017). Online at: https://sway.office.com/XwY4wRcvP612Mdla

Raney, Vanessa. Božićni rat 1. dio [Croatian, project with photographs] (25 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/xsQi5iArkI6ENAOB

Raney, Vanessa. Božićna Bajka obitelji Salaj [Photographs and video] (25 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/fH7uZ1nIvcb9YPsJ

Raney, Vanessa. HZPP Tin-Express [Photographs] (25 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/BnahXsZHRKUVbr1w

Raney, Vanessa. And Krampus comes around... [Croatian, with animated GIF] (16 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/qARbnUQvuEFCOsYn

Raney, Vanessa. izložbeni centar [Photographs and video] (13 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/6eafqSlaDSvmziF3

Raney, Vanessa. "Prvi put sam ikada probala KARTING!!!" [Video and photo] (13 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/ow8B9irzTIQGWVo2

Raney, Vanessa. 3D iluzija dogadilo se u Osijeku [Photographs] (13 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/4rguTRixbEQi2aAM

Raney, Vanessa. Zidni grafiti u uličici u Osijeku [Photographs] (13 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/IWZSKDmLB65g9NrO

Raney, Vanessa. Portanova u Osijeku je najlepši šoping centar u Hrvatskoj za Božić! [Photographs] (12 Dec. 2016). Online at: https://sway.office.com/uDJxMmFrZh4f02WV 
 
Reviews
Raney, Vanessa. Review Essay of Guy Delisle's Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Scott Fisher's Pyongyang -- The Monuments of Kimland, and Andrew Holloway's A Year in Pyongyang. Exhibition Review of Heroes & Villains: Australian Comics and Their Creators (with Clare Pitkethly). Website review of Bill Mauldin Beyond Willie and Joe: An Online Tribute Drawn from the Collections of the Library of Congress. International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) 9, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 551-560, 571-573, and 606-607.

Raney, Vanessa. Review of Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq, by Steve Mumford (in French). Trans. by Bénédicte Costa. Le Sofa: Revue de réflexion et de création contemporaine, no. 2 (Sommaire 2006) Online at: http://www.lesofa.org/vanessaraney2.html 

Raney, Vanessa. "Review of 2005 International Comic-Con in San Diego: 2005 Comic-Con Shines a Light on Eisner: A Look at Two Documentaries and a Tribute." ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 2, no. 2 (Winter 2005). Online at: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v2_2/reviews/raney.shtml

Raney, Vanessa. Review of Black Hole, by Charles Burns. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 2, no. 1 (Summer 2005). Online at: http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v2_1/reviews/raney.shtml

Raney, Vanessa. Review of Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl: A Novel, by Kate McCafferty. Études Irlandaises 30, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 217. Online at: https://www.persee.fr/doc/irlan_0183-973x_2005_num_30_1_3006_t1_0217_0000_2

Raney, Vanessa. “The Eye of Seeing: H.G. Wells and The Door in the Wall” (Review). In newsletter of the H.G. Wells Society, the Americas 1, no. 4 (Summer/August 2003).

Raney, Vanessa. Review of Providence of a Sparrow, by Chris Chester. Green Letters, the Journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK, no. 4 (Spring 2003): 48-49.

Raney, Vanessa. "Subversive Practices: The Internet as a Site of Colonialization" (Review of Global literacies and the World Wide Web, ed. by Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe). The Journal of Literacy and Technology 3, no. 1 (Spring 2003). Online at http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/volume3/raney.pdf.

Raney, Vanessa. ‘Book Notes’ (Reviews of The Jenny Muck, by Anthony Connolly; The Betrothed of Death, by Dr. José Álvarez; and Río Ganges, by David Theis; plus interviews). Dateline 31, no. 16 (8 May 2002): 6-7.

Raney, Vanessa. “Little known Texan instrumental in state’s development” (Review of William Pitt Ballinger, by John Moretta; plus interview). The Egalitarian 31, no. 18 (15 Nov. 2000): 12.

From 5-8 Dec. 2013, I was a fellowship participant in the first-time program offering at Sa(n)jam Knjige u Istri (19th Annual Book Fair in Istria, held through 15 Dec.) which presented an opportunity to speak with publishers. However, they were more interested in signing contracts for translations of already published works based on the promise of money from the Ministry of Culture. So this didn't pan out for me.