Jenny Bitner
Teaching and writing professional with five years experience in online and print media.
Passionate about teaching. Experienced freelance writer and magazine editor.
Strong history of publication including articles, poems, essays and short stories.
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Virginia,1992
Henry Hoyns Fellow in creative writing.
Studied with Charles Wright, Gregory Orr and former poet laureate,
Rita Dove.
Charlottesville, Virginia.
B.A. English/Philosophy, Morehead State University, 1990
National Merit Finalist,
Morehead Distinguished Scholar, Graduated Magna Cum Laude. Morehead, Kentucky.
Originator and organizer of a monthly literary
reading series for Bay Area writers.
Freelance Writer, January 2001-present
Freelance
writer for publications including Men’s Health, the San Francisco Bay
Guardian and Utne
Reader.
Volunteer Tutor, 826 Valencia Writing
Center, 2002-present, San Francisco
Tutor students aged 8-18 in creative and expository
writing.
Lifestyle Editor, Excite@Home,
November 1999-January 2001, Redwood City
Wrote
daily content on work, parenting, travel and health for the 3 million
subscribers to Excite@Home
and
for Excite.com. Generated daily story ideas and worked with graphic designers
to create finished web pages.
Editor,
To-Do List magazine,
2000-present (part-time) San Francisco
Contributing editor and writer for To-Do List Magazine.
Web Content Writer,
ROI Direct, 1999, San Francisco
Wrote short, snappy descriptions of e-commerce
sites (selling everything from chocolate to Chihuahuas)
for directory of online stores.
Tutoring
Coordinator, Back on Track Tutoring,
August
1998-August 1999, San Francisco
Created a new after-school peer-tutoring program
providing free after-school tutoring for high school
and middle school students at George Washington
High School. Responsible for interviewing, training,
administrative duties, publicity and matching
tutors.
Editor, Anything That Moves magazine,
1995-1999
(part-time) San Francisco
Editor and writer for a community based
international bisexual magazine with a
circulation of 7,000. Wrote stories, articles, and interviews, copyedited and proofread
stories, planned public readings.
Radio
Intern, KQED Forum, 1996, San Francisco
Co-produced public radio shows on the largest
public radio station in the country.
Researched
stories by phone and internet, interviewed guests for shows on topics including
alternative childbirth, state and city ballot
initiatives, health and international news stories.
Poetry
Teacher, 1995-1997,
San Francisco
Originated, publicized and taught my own poetry
workshop at Grasshopper Theater in San Francisco.
Poetry
Instructor, University of Virginia, 1990-1992,
Charlottesville, VA
Created and taught beginning poetry course to
undergraduates. Created syllabus,
taught all courses and evaluated students.
Best
American Nonrequired Reading,
2002, short
story “The Pamphleteer”
selected by Dave Eggers
for inclusion for a new anthology in the “Best American” series.
Henry
Hoyns Fellow in creative writing at University of Virginia.
Bucknell
Seminar for Younger Poets, Bucknell University Summer 1989
Awarded fellowship to
summer program. Ten students picked nationwide.
Poem “Dear Lover” Mid-American
Review, Fall 2003.
Poems “Dear Yellow Dress” and “Dear Rose,” Bird
Dog, Spring 2003.
Article “30
Reasons to Live,” originally published in To-Do List magazine, reprinted
in in Utne, Jan/Feb 2003.
Short story “The
Pamphleteer,” anthology Best American Nonrequired Reading, Houghton
Mifflin, 2002.
Article “Bars for
Introverts” San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 19, 2002.
http://www.sfbg.com/36/38/bars_introverts.html
Poem “Dear America,” Watchword
magazine, Spring 2002.
Short story “She Wants to
Marry a Bear,” Comet magazine, 2002.
http://www.cometmagazine.com/fiction/bitner.html
Article “Best of the Bay
2001 Neighborhoods: Western Addition,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, July
2001. http://www.bestofthebay.com/2001/western.html
Article “It’s a Post-Com
World: What do you want to be when you get laid off?” San Francisco Bay
Guardian,
April 2001. http://www.sfbg.com/Guides/education01/postcom.html
Article "I'm Typing As Fast As I Can,” San
Francisco Bay Guardian literary section, January 2001.
http://www.sfbg.com/lit/feb01/index.html
Daily content in the lifestyle section of Excite@Home and the travel
section of Excite.com from November 2000-January
20001.
Essay "Middletown,” To-Do-List Magazine, Winter 2001.
Poems “Scarves” and “In The Middle of the Night,” Pleiades, 2000.
Essay "Adulthood Revisited," To-Do-List Magazine, Summer 2000.
Article "My Personals Family,” To-Do-List Magazine, Summer 2000.
Poems “Vultures,” “Flowers,” and “Xipolite Mexico,”
The Temple, winter 1999.
Poems “Insomnia,” and “ Night of the Bear,” Anything That Moves, Issue #20, Fall
1999.
http://www.anythingthatmoves.com/poetry-fiction.html
Interview “Observations of a Spy on a Spy: An
interview with bisexual filmmaker Sayer Frey,”
Anything
That Moves, #18, fall 1998.
Interview “Bisexual Realities: Finding Our Voices,”
Interview with Beth Firestein,
Anything
That Moves, #14, summer 1997.
Article “I’ve
Never Had a Bisexual Client: Can a Therapist Help You If She Believes
You Don’t Exist?” Anything That Moves, #14, summer 1997.
Poem "Heaven," Anything That Moves, Issue 11, Summer 1996.
Poetry chapbook, Mother, Pine Press,
Landisburg, PA, 1995.
Poem “Watching The Beaver,” More Than Animals, an anthology of animal poems, Red Tail Press,
1994.
Essay about women’s roles “Women Wasted” published
in college textbook
Patterns
and Themes in Composition, 1990.