Jessica Denzer received her B.A. in English Literature from Fordham University and her M.F.A. in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College.
She is a researcher in residence at the New York Public Library and writes fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, and she supplies a range of editorial contributions to West Trade Review, L’Esprit Literary Review, and Four Way Review.
She is currently working on a novel and a collection of essays.
Works in progress
- Mythologies: A Novel
- The lines can be overwhelming: a collection of essays and sketches
Teaching Experience
- Fordham University → Full-time Lecturer: Writing and Literature, 2022–Present
- Fordham University → Adjunct Lecturer: Writing and Literature, 2015–2022
- Cooper Union → Adjunct Instructor: Literature, 2022
- Baruch College, (CUNY) → Adjunct Instructor: Literature, 2017–2022
- Borough of Manhattan Community College →Adjunct Instructor: Writing, 2015–2017
Publications & Interviews
- “Haunted by the Book: On the Grief of Writer’s Block”, L’Esprit Literary Review, Fall 2022
- “The Bodies Fill the River”, L’Espirit Literary Review
- “but all is to be dared”, L’Espirit Literary Review
- Interview with LLR Editor Dan White
- “The Silence”, West Trade Review, Spring 2022 . Print.
- “The Silence”, Recorded Reading, West Trade Review, Nov, 2021
- “River”, Unpublishable Anthology, Archway Editions, Fall 2020, Print.
- Interview with Jessie Chaffee; author of Florence in Ecstasy. Four Way Review, March 19, 2019
- “The Catch: Adjuncts Struggle in Arts Education”, Number:INC Magazine, Issue 96, 2018
- “River”, Unpublishable Literary Journal and Reading Series, Fall Issue, 2018, Print.
- Interview with Jaclyn Gilbert; author of Late Air. Four Way Review, December 15, 2018
Editorial Work
- West Trade Review, Assistant Fiction Editor
- L’Espirit Literary Review, Associate Editor
- Four Way Review, Contributing Editor
Residencies
- New York Public Library Wertheim Research Residency at the Stephen A. Schwarzman New York Public Library
