
Jennifer L. Murvin

Department
English
Role:
Faculty
Campus:
Springfield
Postal mail
Missouri State University
English
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield,
MO
65897
Details
Education
- MFA, Creative Writing, 2014, Pacific University
- MA, English, Creative Writing, 2008, Missouri State University
Teaching
- ENG 205
- ENG 215
- ENG 216
- ENG 315
- ENG 316
- ENG 323
- ENG 500/600
- ENG 501/601
- ENG 551/651
- ENG 562/662
- ENG 786
Professional experience
Selected publications in:
- Hayden’s Ferry Review
- Longleaf Review
- River Styx
- The Southampton Review
- The Pinch
- Anomaly
- December magazine
- DIAGRAM
- The Florida Review
- Catamaran Literary Reader
- Indiana Review
- CutBank
- Post Road
- American Short Fiction Phoebe
- The Sun
- Mid-American Review
- Midwestern Gothic
- Bellingham Review
- Cincinnati Review
- Baltimore Review
Research and professional interests
- Fiction
- Creative nonfiction
- Graphic narrative
- Literary theory
- Contemporary literature
- Hybrid forms
Awards and honors
- Semi-Finalist, Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose (Pleiades Press), 2018
- Tennessee Williams Scholar/Scholarship Recipient, Sewanee Writers Conference, 2017
- 1st Place Winner, American Short(er) Fiction Contest, American Short Fiction, 2015
- Honorable Mention, 2015 Fiction Contest, Phoebe, 2015
- Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Contest. January, 2013
- Winner, Third Place, Baltimore Review Winter 2012 Fiction Contest. January, 2012
- Alumnus, Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fiction Workshop. August, 2011
- Finalist, Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Contest, July, 2010
- Finalist, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Multi-Cultural Young Adult Fiction for Chickasaw Adventures: The Adventure Begins, 2005