Faculty & Staff
Jill McDonough, MFA
Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
Contact
- Phone: 617.287.6787
- Email: Jill.McDonough@umb.edu
- Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,0073
- Website: http://www.jillmcdonough.com
Degrees
MFA, Boston University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Habeas Corpus (Cambridge: Salt, 2008)
- Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012)
- Where You Live (Salt, 2012)
- Reaper (Alice James, 2017)
- Here All Night (forthcoming)
Additional Information
Jill McDonough is the author of Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), Where You Live (Salt, 2012), and Reaper (Alice James, 2017). The recipient of three Pushcart prizes and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, 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 taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online. Her fifth poetry collection, Here All Night, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.