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Rutgers State University of New Jersey - Creative Writing

Fiction Writer, Assistant Professor at Coastal Carolina University
Higher Education
Jessica Lee
Richardson
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Area
- My short story collection, "It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides," (FC2, 2015) won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

- My fiction and poetry also won awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters and the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum. It has been featured by Ploughshares and the Short Form and has appeared in the Adroit Journal, the Collagist, the Indiana Review, Joyland, Posit, and the Masters Review, among other places.

- Several of my university students have gone on to win awards and gain acceptance to fully funded MFA programs. My teaching won a fellowship from the New York State Council of the Arts, Empire State Partnerships, a 1st Place Teaching Award from the English Graduate Organization at the University of Alabama, and a fellowship from the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, among other honors.

- Previous and current work experience and skills include foundation grant writing, grants management, individual giving, editing, site management and project management, arts administration, curriculum design, planning, and implementation, marketing strategy, web content, volunteer coordination, and community outreach.

Experience

  • University of Alabama

    GTA - Instructor of Record, Creative Writing, Literature, Composition

    - American Literature I, Beginnings to Late 19th Century (EN 209), two sections
    - American Literature II, Late 19th Century to Present (EN 210), two
    sections
    - Introduction to Creative Writing (EN 200), three sections
    - English Composition II (EN 102), three section
    - English Composition I (EN 101), two sections
    - Tutor in the University Writing Center

  • Coastal Carolina University

    Assistant Professor

    I teach Reading and Writing and Advanced Fiction, Introductory Creative Writing, and graduate classes in Literary Journal Editing and Fiction. I also serve as editor of the Waccamaw, Coastal's literary magazine.

  • Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature

    Editor

    Jessica worked at Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature as a Editor

  • Rutgers University

    Creative Writing Instructor, Project Coordinator

    I taught Creative Writing courses for Writers House in the Rutgers University English Department in the 2013-2014 academic year.

    I also coordinated Professional Development outreach projects for the Rutgers Writing Program in an administrative capacity.

    I taught Creative Writing and Theater in the Rutgers Future Scholars Summer Program from the inception of the program at Rutgers New Brunswick until 2017.

  • The University of Alabama

    Full Time Temporary Instructor

    A 4:4 assignment of mixed writing and literature courses as well as service.

  • FEMA

    Relief work following the April 27th, 2011 Tornado in Tuscaloosa.

Education

  • Montclair State University

    Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

    Theatre/Theater

  • University of Alabama

    MFA

    Creative Writing, Prose

  • University of Alabama

    GTA - Instructor of Record, Creative Writing, Literature, Composition


    - American Literature I, Beginnings to Late 19th Century (EN 209), two sections - American Literature II, Late 19th Century to Present (EN 210), two sections - Introduction to Creative Writing (EN 200), three sections - English Composition II (EN 102), three section - English Composition I (EN 101), two sections - Tutor in the University Writing Center

  • The University of Alabama

    Full Time Temporary Instructor


    A 4:4 assignment of mixed writing and literature courses as well as service.

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