Jessica Barksdale’s fifteenth novel, The Play’s the Thing, and second poetry collection, Grim Honey, were both published spring 2021.

A Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Waccamaw Journal, Salt Hill Journal, Tahoma Review, and So to Speak. Her work has been recognized and honored by The Sewanee Review, The Wigleaf, The North American Review, and The Ocotillo Review

Recently retired, she taught at Diablo Valley College for thirty-two years and continues to teach novel writing online for UCLA Extension and in the online MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University.

Website: https://www.jessicbarksdaleinclan.com

Twitter Username: @jessicainclan

Employment

• Professor of English at Diablo Valley College (August 1989 - December 2020)
• Instructor at UCLA Extension (January 2000 - )
• Adjunct Faculty, Online MFA at Southern New Hampshire University (June 2018 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University, Stanislaus (June 1985)
• Master of Arts in English from San Francisco State University (May 1987)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University (August 2015)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry