Faculty & Staff
Jill McDonough, MFA
- Assistant Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617.287.6787
- Email: Jill.McDonough@umb.edu
-
100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,0073
Degrees
MFA, Boston University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Habeas Corpus (Cambridge: Salt, 2008)
Additional Information
Pushcart prize winner Jill McDonough’s first book of poems, Habeas Corpus, was published by Salt in 2008. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education program since 1999. Her work appears in Slate, The Nation, and The Threepenny Review, and is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2011. She directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center's Online Writing Workshops.
» Read samples of Jill McDonough's work: "Breasts Like Martinis", "Accident, Mass. Ave", and selections from Habeas Corpus.
Poems, Articles, and Translations
Various journals, including Poetry, Slate, Literary Imagination, PN Review, and The Threepenny Review
