Expertise
JR Fenn is an instructor in ESF’s Writing Program. She worked as a public radio reporter in Alaska after earning a BA in English and Creative Writing from Swarthmore College. Fenn holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, a Master’s in Teaching from Hollins University, and an MFA in Fiction from Syracuse University, where she won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize in Fiction. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, and more. A Tin House alumnus whose writing has been supported by the Key West Literary Seminar, Disquiet, Writing by Writers, and the Orion Environmental Writing Workshop, she taught at SUNY Geneseo and Birkbeck College, University of London before coming to ESF.