Sean E Enfield

1516 Anna St.

Denton, TX 76201
Cell: 469 231 8227
sean.enfield@gmail.com

EDUCATION

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

English Major with Literature Concentration –May 2015
GPA – 3.7

PUBLICATIONS

“Paper Shackles” – Lunch Ticket, December 2017

“Colorblind Passengers” - F(r)iction Online, January 2017

“Teddy Hudson's Grandpa Is Dead” - Drunk Monkeys, November 2016

“From the Sidelines – ‘City of _____,’" Entropy Mag, July 2016

“Catalyst for a Sensation” – Poetry Quarterly, Spring 2014

“Guided Tour of the Collective Imagination” – Deadbeats, July 2013

“Claudia Who Found the F” – NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest, May 2013
Excerpt featured on air during All Things Considered

“Poem Written in a Gas Station Bathroom” – Vine Leaves Literary Journal, January 2013

“A Rough Sketch of a Woman on Her Way Home” – Open Ear to the Universe, January 2012

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate Thesis directed by Dr. Javier Rodriguez

“It’s a Brief, Wondrous Life: Finding One’s Identity beyond National Consciousness”

UNT Scholar’s Day – Paper Presentation

“It’s a Brief, Wondrous Life: Finding One’s Identity beyond National Consciousness” April 2014

UNT Scholar’s Day – Poster Presentation

“Beyond Marginal People: Changing Perspectives in Ethnic Literature” April 2013
WORK EXPERIENCE

Communities in Schools – North Texas, Shady Shores, TX

09/2016 – present
Academic Specialist II

Plano Children’s Theatre, Plano, TX

11/2016-11/2017
Volunteer Coordinator – as AmeriCorps VISTA

Upward Bound, Denton, TX

05/2015-08/2015; 05/2016-08/2016; 05/2017-08/2017
Creative Writing Teacher

Pinnacle Prep School, Lewisville, TX

09/2015-09/2016
English Teacher

Murchison Performing Arts Center, Denton, TX

01/2012-05/2015
Stage Crew

Murphy Messenger, Murphy, TX

06/2008 -09/2010
Journalist

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Redemption Church Youth Sponsor, Plano, TX

06/2011 – Present
Teach and act as peer mentor for youth in the church

Gardeners in Community Development, Dallas, TX

05/2012-Present
Tended vegetable plots and chicken coops to be donated to local food pantries and soup
kitchens
Participated in Plant Sales to generate funding for the garden

HONORS & AWARDS

Recipient of Segal AmeriCorps Education Award – November 2017

For completion of year of AmeriCorps service

Nominated for Best of the Net Award 2017 – September 2017

“Colorblind Passengers”
Long-Listed for Lunch Ticket’s Diana Woods Memorial Award in Non-Fiction – September 2017
“Paper Shackles”

Finalist in Mayborn Conference personal essay competition – July 2014

“The Middle Passage”

Nominated for UNT Writing Award – May 2014

“The Path of Least Resistance

Published in Vine Leaves Best Of 2013 anthology – November 2013

“Poem Written in a Gas Station Bathroom”

THECB Top 10% Scholarship – August 2013

College of Arts and Science Dean’s List – Fall 2011 to Spring 2014

B.O.B. Regents Scholarship – August 2011

PRESENTATIONS & READINGS

Pegasus Reading Series: Enfield, Pitt, Ryckman, Stufflebeam – November 2017, Dallas, TX
“Teddy Hudson’s Grandpa Is Dead”

Spiderweb Salon Harvest Masquerade – November 2017, Denton, TX

Selected Poems

Tiny Couch Productions Recording Session – August 2017, Denton, TX

Selected Poems

Spiderweb Salon 5 Year Anniversary Show – July 2017, Denton, TX

Selected Poems

Lost Poet Lounge – June 2017, Denton, TX

Selected Poems

Other People’s Poetry: Frank O’Hara – May 2017, Dallas, TX

“Ave Maria,” “Having a Coke with You”

Other People’s Poetry: Bob Kaufman – January 2017, Dallas, TX

“Results of a Lie Detector Test,” “Blue O’Clock,” “Plea”

UNT Scholar’s Day – April 2015, Denton, TX

“It’s a Brief Wondrous Life”

Sigma Tau Delta Convention – March 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Long-listed Diana Woods Memorial Award – September 2017
“Paper Shackles”

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

McNair Scholar

UNT Creative Writing Club, President

Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society in English, Member