Job Title:
WRT Lecturer
E-mail:
Jessica.Karbowiak@stonybrook.edu
Office Location:
Humanities 2067
Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Education:
Master of Fine Arts, The Pennsylvania State University
Master of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Awards:
MVP Teaching Award (student chosen), Stony Brook University, 2017
OAC Mentorship Award, Alma College, 2012—2013
Master of Fine Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, The Pennsylvania State University,
2011
Teaching Assistant Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003
Publications:
“Bitch of Buchenwald,” short fiction, The Petrichor Review 2014
“Naked Me,” creative nonfiction, Side B magazine 2013
“Surge Capacity,” creative nonfiction, Future Earth anthology 2013
These Things I Know, cross-genre collection, Pink Fish Press 2012
“Containment,” creative nonfiction, Joy Interrupted: An Anthology of Motherhood and Loss 2012
“Menagerie,” creative nonfiction, Canary journal 2011
“Olivia the Orca,” short fiction, Mouse Tales Press 2011
“Containment,” creative nonfiction, Two Hawks Quarterly 2011
“Lady of the Waves,” short fiction, The Monarch Review 2011
“Surge Capacity,” creative nonfiction, The Chaffey Review 2011
“Kitty’s Thud and Cry,” short fiction, Write from Wrong magazine 2011
“The Second Scraping,” creative nonfiction, Blood Orange Review 2011
“Slices of Saartjie,” short fiction, Orion Headless 2011
“Boxes,” short fiction, Arcadia magazine 2011
Courses Taught:
WRT 101: Introductory Writing Workshop
WRT 102: Intermediate Writing Workshop
WRT 302: Special Topics: Fiction Writing
WRT 303: The Personal Essay