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Jen Sammons
Visiting Assistant Professor
English

Jen Sammons

Contact Info

513-529-5221
326 Bachelor Hall

Introduction

Jen Sammons lives in Dayton, Ohio where she explores the intersections of being a queer teacher, writer, and mother, and advocates for visibility in all three. She teaches studio-centered creative writing classes that include hands-on experiences with visual arts and other ways of making as process-based methods for thinking through creativity.

Research Interests

  • Creative Writing Pedagogy
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Hybrid Forms
  • Lyric Essay
  • Prose Poetry

Courses Taught

  • ENG111- Composition and Rhetoric
  • ENG226- Introduction to Creative Writing
  • ENG323- Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
  • ENG423- Advanced Creative Nonfiction

Education

  • M.F.A. Creative Writing and Pedagogy, 黑料社区 (2022)
  • M.Ed. Educational Leadership, Antioch University Midwest (2007)
  • B.A. Early Childhood Education, Ohio Wesleyan University (2002)

Publications

Chapbook

Trisagion. Portland: Gertrude Press. 2019. Print.
Creative Nonfiction winner of the Gertrude Press 2018 Chapbook Contest.

Prose

"Visitation." Tahoma Literary Review 15 (Summer 2019): 116-120. Print.
"Aeolian A(e)ffects." Tahoma Literary Review 12 (Summer 2018): 56-61.Print.
"Non-Transferable," River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction. 26 February 2018. Web.
"Always Here," Slag Glass City. 25 December 2016. Web.
"Trans/Substantiation," Palaver. (Fall 2016): 7-13. Web.

Textbook Contributions

"Assignment Guidelines for Reflective Narrative." Rhethawks 73. Plymouth: MacMillan. 2020: 8-9. Web.
"Assignment Guidelines for Inquiry 1." Rhethawks 72. Plymouth: MacMillan. 2019: 11. Print.
"Assignment Guidelines for Inquiry 4." Rhethawks 72. Plymouth: MacMillan. 2019: 34. Print.

Book Chapters

"Family Letters." With Ames Hawkins. Resilience: Stories, Poems, Essays, Words for LGBT Teens. Ed. Eric Ngyuen. 2011. 113-122. Print.

Exhibits

"Time." Where Ideas Learn to Fly. Ohio Voices for Learning Traveling Exhibit. 2014.

Work in Progress

Jen is currently working on a two hybrid-form projects: A memoir about adoption, trauma, and queer family-making, and an autoethnographic visual-poetic exploration of transracial adoption, racism, and parenthood.