Janice Tuck Lively

Janice Tuck Lively is a Professor in the Department of English at Elmhurst University. She teaches courses in Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Multi-cultural Post-Colonial Literature, Readings in Race, Class and Gender, Introduction to Literature, and Feminist Poetry. She also serves as the Literature Advisor for the university's arts and literary journal, MiddleWestern Voice.

• Research Focus: Celebrates and examines women’s lives, struggles, and resiliency through fiction and non-fiction.
• Interdisciplinary Work: Explores intersections of race, class, and gender in postcolonial contexts.

Scientific Awards & Recognitions:

• 2016 Pushcart Award Nominee for Short Fiction
• Ragdale Artist Colony Residency
• Callaloo Writer’s Workshop Participant
• Summer Literary Seminars 2014 Editor’s Choice Award
• Semi-Finalist, 2015 Dana Award in the Novel

Her work has appeared in journals such as Jet Fuel Review, So To Speak: A Journal of Feminism Art, and Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, as well as anthologies like They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing.