Professor Jared Sexton

Georgia, United States

Member Since: 08/22/2012


Jared Yates Sexton is a born-and-bred Hoosier living and working in The South as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University. He serves as Editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine BULL and his work has appeared in Salon, The Southern Humanities Review, Hobart, PANK, and over sixty other publications. Additionally, he's been nominated for a handful of Pushcarts, The Million Writer's Award, was selected for 2013's Best of the Net, Wigleaf's Top 50 Fictions, and was a finalist for The New American Fiction Prize. He is the author of three story collections and a crime-novel, and is currently working on a political book of essays covering the 2016 Presidential Election.

Website: http://www.jysexton.com

Twitter Username: @jysexton


Publications

  • An End To All Things: A Collection of Stories , Atticus Books (December 12, 2012)

Employment

  • Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University (August 2008 - May 2012)
  • Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University (August 2012 - )

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science in English from Indiana State University (May 2005)
  • Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Fiction from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale (May 2008)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Screenwriting