Jenny Sadre-Orafai, MFA

Professor of English

jsadreor@kennesaw.edu
Office: EB 263

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is a poet and writer and the author of Paper, Cotton, Leather, Malak, and Dear Outsiders and co-author of Book of Levitations. Her poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, and The Cortland Review. Her creative non-fiction and short fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills, and The Los Angeles Review. She co-founded and co-edits Josephine Quarterly.

• Concentration Area(s)
  • Creative Writing
• MAPW Courses Taught
  • PRWR 6470 Poetry Writing I
  • PRWR 7470 Poetry Writing II
• Select Publications

  Poetry Collections

  • Dear Outsiders, The University of Akron Press, 2023.
  • Book of Levitations with Anne Champion, Trembling Pillow Press, 2020.
  • Malak, Platypus Press, 2017.
  • Paper, Cotton, Leather, Press 53, 2014.

  Book Chapters

  • "Wayfinding." A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers, edited by Mary Biddinger and Julie Brooks-Barbour, The University of Akron Press, 2024, pp. 12-19.
  • "The Body, A Stone: On Containing Grief." In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy, edited by Lisa Fay Coutley, Black Lawrence Press, 2024, pp. 308-309.
  • "Publishing in Online Literary Journals." Scholarly Publication in a Changing Academic Landscape: Models for Success,  edited by Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Letizia Guglielmo, Palgrave Pivot, 2014.
  • "How to Write in Multiple Genres Successfully." Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching, edited by Carol Smallwood & Colleen S. Harris, McFarland, 2012.
  • "Writing Identities: Implementing Online Journaling in the Composition Classroom." Teachers as Avatars: English Studies in the Digital Age (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition), edited by Linda Stewart and Laura Davis, Hampton Press, 2011.
  • "The Art of Making Hot Tea." Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally, edited by Angela Jane Fountas, Seal Press, 2005.