Dr. Theodora Ziolkowski
Areas of Expertise
- Creative Writing
- English
- Literature
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
Biography
Dr. Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of a Next Generation Indie Book Award-winning novella, On the Rocks, and the poetry collection, Ghostlit. Her work has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, the National Alumni Association (University of Alabama), and Inprint (Houston, Texas). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, The Normal School, Short Fiction (UK), The Seventh Wave, Prairie Schooner, and Oxford Poetry (UK), among over sixty other literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and exhibits. In the past, Dr. 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 teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and serves on the faculty of the University of Nebraska, Omaha MFA program.
Education
PhD, Creative Writing and Literature, University of Houston
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alabama
BA, English, University of Vermont
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Contemporary Fiction
- Body Poetics
- The Gothic
- Humor Writing
- Creative Writing Pedagogy
UNK Courses Taught
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Beginning Fiction
- Narrative Strategies
- Creative Writing Professionalism
Sample Publications
"A Hospitable Man," The Normal School
"Picnic," Missouri Review
"Pastoral," Verse Daily
"The Leash," no tokens
"Portrait of My Body in the Land of X," The Seventh Wave
"At the Memory Care Center," Rattle
“Lying on the patient table, gel on the wand—,” Radar Poetry (reprinted in Medmic: Conversations, Culture & Creativity from the Health Care Community)
“The Wooden Headdress” Booth, (Winner of Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2020)
