Dr. Jennifer Maritza McCauley 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 in American literature, Black Puerto Rican transnational exchanges, and the Afro-Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
She is the author of SCAR ON/SCAR OFF (Stalking Horse Press), When Trying to Return Home (Counterpoint Press), and Kinds of Grace (Flower Song Press). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio, and CantoMundo and her work has been a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, and a Must-Read by Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine, Today, and Southern Review of Books. She is fiction editor at Pleiades and an assistant professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Achievements:
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Independent Publisher Book Award
Academy of American Poets University Prize
Pushcart Prize Special Mention
Longlisted for Aspen Words Literary Prize
Reading the West Nominee
Degrees:
BA in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh
MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University
PhD in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia
Publications:
Kinds of Grace: Poems.
When Trying to Return Home: Stories.
SCAR ON/SCAR OFF: Hybrid