Jessica Denzer | Writer and Educator | Jessica is a writer and educator based in New York City.

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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 the Editor of L'Esprit Literary Review, and founder and Co-Publisher of Indirect Books, both of which she runs with fellow writer and friend Dan White. She writes fiction and nonfiction and her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies.

She is currently working on a novel and a collection of essays.

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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

"This Song Will Change Your Life: Epiphany and Modernity in Garden State"(opens in new window), L'Esprit Literary Review.
"The Dog Belonged to Someone Who Has Died: Ghosts and the Un-willingness to Live"(opens in new window), L'Esprit Literary Review.
"Monstrous Bodies"(opens in new window), L'Esprit Literary Review.
"In the Garden Where the Bones are Buried: Barthes, Foucault, Eliot, and 'I'"(opens in new window), L'Esprit Literary Review.
"Haunted by the Book: On the Grief of Writer’s Block"(opens in new window), L’Esprit Literary Review.
"The Bodies Fill the River"(opens in new window), L’Esprit Literary Review.
"but all is to be dared"(opens in new window), L’Esprit Literary Review.
"Interview with LLR Editor Dan White"(opens in new window), L’Esprit Literary Review.
"The Silence"(opens in new window), West Trade Review - Print & Digital.
-- This story was selected for Alternating Current's Best Short Fiction of 2023
"The Silence"(opens in new window), Recorded Reading, West Trade Review.
"River", Unpublishable Anthology, Archway Editions - Print.
"Interview with Jessie Chaffee"(opens in new window), author of 'Florence in Ecstasy', Four Way Review.
"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"(opens in new window), author of 'Late Air', Four Way Review.

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

Artwork by Jessica Denzer