Department of English

Jennifer Whitaker

Email: jlwhitak@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3119

Education

M.F.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro-2005
B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College-2002

Research Interests

Ms. Whitaker is currently working on a her second poetry manuscript, and her research interests include online writing center theory and Welsh Arthurian texts.

Selected Publications

• The Blue Hour (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016)
• “Father as Map of the World.” New Orleans Review 34.2 (2008).
• “The Way We Describe Lost Things.” Pebble Lake Review Spring (2008).
• “The Look of It.” New England Review. 27.1 (2006): 39-40.
• “Understanding Harvest.” Mid-American Review 25.2 (2005).

Awards and Honors

• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, 2005.
• Nomination for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, 2004.
• Graduate Scholar, UNCG, 2003-2005.
• Election to Phi Beta Kappa, 2002.

Bookshelf

The Blue Hour

Book by Jennifer Whitaker