Jennifer is a writer and teacher from New Mexico. Her memoir essays have appeared in journals including Creative Nonfiction and Ascent (this essay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), among others, and a story she worked on appeared on NPR’s This American Life. She is working on her first book, a memoir.
Jennifer blogs about her writing process and the elongated, tortoise-like dip she’s taken into publishing her work at jenniferjordanschaller.com. Jennifer graduated from the University of New Mexico’s MFA program, and she teaches college English in Albuquerque. She has been writing for nearly as long as she has been reading.
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Rebecca Aronson facilitates the Bad Mouth Reading Series in Albuquerque. She is also the author of ANCHOR, forthcoming from Orison Books in 2021, Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom, winner of the 2016 Orison Books poetry prize and finalist for the 2017 Arizona/New Mexico book awards and winner of the 2019 Margaret Randall Book Award from the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, and Creature, Creature, winner of the Main-Traveled Roads Poetry Prize (2007). She has been a recipient of a Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the Loft’s Speakeasy Poetry Prize, and a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholarship to Sewanee. She is co-founder and host of Bad Mouth, a series of words and music. She teaches writing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband, son, and a wild beast-cat.