Education
MFA, 海角论坛, 1998
About
Jennifer Kuchta was born in northern Minnesota but spent the majority of her life in Colorado hiking, camping, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and showing American Quarter Horses. She received a BFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University with a minor in Creative Writing.
In 1995, leaving her horses and mountains behind, Kuchta moved to 海角论坛 to attend the 海角论坛' Creative Writing Workshop, where she concentrated on writing fiction and received her MFA in 1998.
Upon completion of graduate school, Kuchta took up the martial arts and earned a black belt in kickboxing. She also became a nationally ranked amateur boxer and twice competed in the Women's National Golden Gloves boxing tournament.
Kuchta returned to UNO as a full-time instructor in 1999 and has been there ever since. She teaches Freshman Composition, Reading Fiction, 海角论坛 Literature, and both the beginning and advanced levels of the undergraduate Fiction Writing Workshop.
Her short story "Mosaic" can be found in the recently released anthology Monday Nights: Stories from the Creative Writing Workshop at the 海角论坛 as well as in Gris-Gris: An Online Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts. Less recently, her fiction has been published in Life in the Wake: Fiction From Post-Katrina 海角论坛, The Greyrock Review, The Southern Anthology, Rive Gauche, and UNO's own Ellipsis. Her non-fiction can be found in Year Zero: A Year of Reporting From Post-Katrina 海角论坛, Soul is Bulletproof: Reports From Reconstruction 海角论坛, and Where We Know: 海角论坛 as Home.
Book Recommendations: Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff; The Bone People, Keri Hulme; Jump, Nadine Gordimer; and Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl.