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Jennifer Baker: Publishing, Writing, and Representation

New MFA faculty member Jennifer Baker is a Pushcart-Prize-nominated writer, contributor for the digital publisher Electric Literature , founder of the podcast, Minorities in Publishing , and editor of the anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life . Baker has taught at conferences and in workshops; this is her first faculty position. “ I'm eager to engage with a concrete community over the course of the semester,” she says. “I feel like the dynamics in a workshop can build a firm sense of approach for not only participants, but for the ones leading discussion and critique. Instructors learn so much from students in workshops that it becomes a very reciprocal space for the exchange of ideas.” Baker is teaching the course Creative Nonfiction Writing II: Art of the Essay. “ Barely There ,” her lauded piece published in Longreads last year, demonstrates mastery in bringing the reader into an essay viscerally. “My focus was on hair more so than the body, even though hair is pa

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