Dr. Theodora Ziolkowski
Areas of Expertise
- Creative Writing
- English
- Graduate Faculty
- Literature
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
Biography
Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of the Next Generation Indie Book Award-winning novella, On the Rocks, and the poetry collection, Ghostlit. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Short Fiction (UK), The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Oxford Poetry (UK), and in over sixty additional literary journals, anthologies, and exhibits. In the past, Ziolkowski served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and Fiction Editor for Big Fiction. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was honored as a ‘30 Under 30’ alum, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. Currently, she serves as the Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where she teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English. She also serves as a faculty mentor through the University of Nebraska, Omaha low-residency MFA program.
Education
PhD, Creative Writing and Literature, University of Houston
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alabama
BA, English, University of Vermont
UNK Courses Taught
- ENG 211: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENG 214: Beginning Fiction Writing
- ENG 415: Advanced Fiction Writing
- ENG 419: Advanced Poetry Writing
- ENG 435: Creative Writing Professionalism
- ENG 485: Narrative Strategies
- Fiction Writing, Poetry Writing, Creative Nonfiction, and Narrative Strategies at the Graduate Level
Sample Publications
"At the Memory Care Center," Rattle
"Picnic," The Missouri Review
"A Hospitable Man," The Normal School
"The Leash," No Tokens
"Portrait of My Body in the Land of X," The Seventh Wave
"First, I Had a Book Come Out: Then, I Had the Baby: On Embracing Privacy in My Most Public Year," Mutha Magazine
