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Rex Rose
3403 Banton Road
Austin, TX, 78722


Phone: (512) 626-0553
Email:
Web: http://rexrose.com

 

writing

 

  • Author of 2002 novel Toast. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company. (ISBN: 0887394256)
  • Wrote features, reviews, and a column for Tribe magazine in New Orleans. (11/1995 - 02/2001)
  • Published by Tulane Literary Magazine, Arts Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, and Milk.
  • Wrote feature articles as a staff writer for Go Gulf magazine. (08/2000 - 02/2001)

     

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  • Edited courses at the LSU DOCE Department of Independent Study. (1997 - 1998)
  • Contributing Editor, Exquisite Corpse. Worked closely with National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu. (1999-2002)
  • Editorial Assistant, Thus Spake the Corpse V.2, Black Sparrow, 2000.
  • Contributing Editor, Go Gulf magazine. (08/2000 - 02/2001)

     

    teaching

     

  • Taught English composition at Louisiana State University. (Fall 1998 - Spring 1999)

     

    television production

     

  • Assistant Producer, Louisiana Public Broadcasting. Duties included research, image license negotiation, and script consultation and revision of the Louisiana History documentary. (1998 - 1999)

     

    curatorial

     

  • Assistant Curator of Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art. (07/1996 - 10/1996)

     

    publishing

     

  • Contributing Editor and Graphic/Layout Artist, Go Gulf magazine. Have experience in all phases of publishing a slick magazine. Edited and wrote articles. Created and laid out ads using Quark Xpress and Photoshop. Dealt with the printing company. Attended industry functions to digitally photograph the events, represent the magazine, and report the proceedings. (08/2000 - 02/2001)
  • Experienced creating graphics and publications using Photoshop and Quark Xpress. Many book covers published by Creative Arts Book Company.

     

    web publishing

     

  • Two years experience as NT Admin and Webmaster at LSU DOCE Office of Independent Study. Created and maintained web site and intranet with MS Frontpage. Helped develop online, interactive distance learning courses. (1997 - 1998)
  • Used Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Image Ready (Mac and PC) while webmaster of the LSU Creative Writing site, the New Delta Review site, the LSU EGSA site, The Exquisite Corpse site, the Mark Spitzer official author site, and the Readers & Writers site. Currently designing, maintaining, and hosting the Nat Hardy official author site and the J.Joseph Studios site Working knowledge of HTML and CSS.

     

    art

     

  • Attended life drawing and painting classes at The New Orleans Academy of Fine Art (1984) and cartooning and animation classes through the Open Education Exchange in San Francisco. (1981)

     

    photography

     

  • Assisted veteran Life magazine photographer Bradley Smith and freelanced. (1989)
  • Framed, hung, and shipped vintage photographs representing the history of photography at A Gallery for Fine Photography, in New Orleans. Duties included working with and hosting Helmut Newton, Jerry Eulsmann, George Tice, Bradley Smith and Herman Leonard in preparation for their gallery exhibitions. (1988 - 1989)
  • Attended a Jerry Eulsmann seminar on darkroom superimposition. (1989)

     

    education

     

    Tulane University

  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in English. 3.97 GPA: English major. 3.7: cumulative GPA. (Spring 1996)
  • Received the John Kennedy Toole writing scholarship and twice received the Barton Williams
  • Benedict merit scholarship. (1993 - 1996)
  • Sat on the Tulane Literary Society editorial board. (1995)

    Louisiana State University

  • Earned Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in creative writing/fiction under Andrei Codrescu, Vance Bourjaily, Mark Jude Poirier, James Gordon Bennett and Moira Crone. (05/19/2000)

     

    public speaking

     

  • Lectured on photographer Ernest J. Bellocq at the New Orleans Museum of Art (1996) and the Julie Saul Gallery, Manhattan. (12/15/2001)
  • Appeared on the Steppin' Out television program in New Orleans. (1996)
  • Speaker, Creative Writing Panel One, Conference on "(Dis)Unified States," LSU, Baton Rouge. (February 7, 2002)
  • Panel Participant, Creative Writers' Perspectives on All the King's Men," Conference on Rediscovering Robert Penn Warren, LSU, Baton Rouge. (November 2001)

     

    special

     

  • Speak Spanish.
  • Volunteered at the Louisiana State Museum and at WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print
  • Handicapped, in New Orleans, as an on-air reader.
  • Currently do volunteer ESL tutoring for Literacy Austin.

    • References available upon request.