Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of a Next Generation Indie Book Award-winning novella, On the Rocks, and the poetry collection, Ghostlit. Her work has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, the National Alumni Association (University of Alabama), and Inprint (Houston, Texas). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, The Normal School, Short Fiction (UK), The Seventh Wave, Prairie Schooner, and Oxford Poetry (UK), among over sixty other literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and exhibits. In the past, Ziolkowski has served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, Fiction Editor for Big Fiction, and Assistant Poetry Editor for Black Warrior Review. 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 and serves on the faculty of the University of Nebraska, Omaha MFA program.
