Jessica Walker
About
Jessica Walker is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English. Her fiction and creative nonfiction can be found in The American Scholar, Kenyon Review Online, Black Warrior Review, The Indiana Review, and Bayou as winner of the James Knudsen Prize for Short Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia and has received the support of the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Sewanee Writers Conference. A native of Northwest Georgia, Jessica began her writing career in journalism and won awards for investigative reporting in South Florida.
Education
- B.A. University of Virginia
- M.F.A. University of Virginia
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Contemporary Literature
Courses Taught
- ENGL 2201: Writing About the Disciplines
- ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing
Selected Publications
- “Infestation,” Black Warrior Review, Spring 2020
- “The Third Obituary of Anton Popov,” The American Scholar, Spring 2019
- “Another Girl,” The Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2019
- “Ex Utero,” Best Small Fictions, 2018
- “Vegas Baby,” Grist, Winter 2018
- “Altar Call at Possum Trot,” Booth, September 2017
- “Jazz Fan,” Bayou Magazine, December 2017
Awards
- Gosnell Prize for First Year Writing, (for supervising best student essay), University of Virginia, 2022Echols Fellow for Excellence in Teaching, University of Virginia, 2021-2022
- Elizabeth George Foundation, Grant, 2021
- Sewanee Writers Conference, Scholar, 2021
- Winner, Best Small Fictions 2018
- Winner, Bayou Magazine’s James Knudsen Short Fiction Prize, 2017