Jennifer L. Murvin

Department

English

Role: Faculty
Campus: Springfield

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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

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