Jennifer Cookson

Jennifer Cookson is a Lecturer at the University of Colorado, teaching literature and creative writing. As founding editor of MANIFOLD: Experimental Criticism and executive committee member of the MLA Genre Studies Nonfiction Prose Forum, she bridges academic and literary publishing.

Her interdisciplinary projects include 'Castle: Ideologies of Exclusion in American Domestic Space' (monograph), 'Strata: Poessays' (ecofeminist critique), and 'Inoculation' (verse history of smallpox). She holds a PhD in Literature and MFA in Creative Writing from CU Boulder.