Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of the Next Generation Indie Book Award-winning novella, On the Rocks, and the poetry collection, Ghostlit. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Short Fiction (UK), The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Oxford Poetry (UK), and in over sixty additional literary journals, anthologies, and exhibits.

In the past, Ziolkowski served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and Fiction Editor for Big Fiction. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was honored as a ‘30 Under 30’ alum, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing.

Currently, she teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where she serves as the Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair of Creative Writing. She also serves as a faculty mentor through the University of Nebraska, Omaha low-residency MFA program.

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