Jay Ponteri

Professor & Chair of Low Residency Creative Writing; Assessment Coordinator, PNCA; Associate Dean of Graduate & Professional Learning Programs and Assessment Coordinator; Chair of Low Residency Creative Writing; Professor &. Chair of Low Residency Creative Writing; Associate Dean of Graduate & Professional Learning Programs

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Departments
H Ford School of Grad Studies,
Low Residency Creative Writing
Pronouns
He/him/his
Contact

jponteri@willamette.edu

Bio

Jay Ponteri directs the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program at PNCA. Somone Told Me was published by Widow+Orphan House in fall 2020. His memoir, Wedlocked, was published by Hawthorne Books, April 2013, and it received the 2014 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. His chapbook of short prose, Darkmouth Strikes Again, was published by Future Tense Books, summer 2014. His essay “Listen to this” was mentioned as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2010, and more recently, “On Navel Gazing” was mentioned as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015. He has published prose in Knee-Jerk, Essay Daily, Ghost Proposal, Seattle Review, Salamander, and Forklift, Ohio, among others.