Jennifer Maritza McCauley, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor,
College of Human Sciences and Humanities
Contact number: 281-283-3372
Email: McCauley@uhcl.edu
Office: B1508.07
Biography
Jennifer Maritza McCauley teaches composition, literature and creative writing in
the Literature program. Her courses include Composition I, Creative Writing, and Literature
and Experience. Jennifer is a writer, teacher and editor. She received a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from Best of the Net, Independent
Publisher Book Awards, Academy of American Poets and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention.
She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University
and her Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Missouri. She
is presently a fiction editor at the literary journal Pleiades and was formerly a
contest editor and poetry editor at The Missouri Review. Her cross-genre collection
SCAR ON/SCAR OFF (2017) was released on Stalking Horse Press.
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
• Creative writing
• Poetry, fiction, non-fiction
• Hybrid forms
• African-American literature
• 20th and 21st century American literature
• Afro-Latinx/Latin-American literature
• Latinx/Latin-American literature
Courses (Current Academic Year)
- Creative Writing
- Literature and Experience
- Composition I
Research Projects
Jennifer is a multi-genre writer and considers hybrid forms, short stories, historical fiction, personal narratives and lyric essays a special creative home. Her creative and critical projects currently center on Black women during the American Reconstruction Era, Black Puerto Rican transnational exchanges, and the Afro-Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
Awards and Accomplishments
- Best of the Net
- Independent Publisher Book Awards
- Academy of American Poets
- Pushcart Prize Special Mention