Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2022
baltazjr@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Website: http://www.jasonbaltazar.com/
Office: Keezell 410
Spring 2024 Office Hours:
Tu/Th 11:00am-12:30pm or by Zoom appointment
Website: http://www.jasonbaltazar.com/
Specialization: Fiction Writing, Multi/Cross-genre Writing, Speculative fiction, Multi-ethnic and Diasporic American Literature
Education:
PhD, Creative Writing, University of Kansas, 2022
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Kansas, 2018
BS, Graphic Design, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 2009
Selected Publications:
Fiction/Hybrid:
- "Local Extinction Hotline," Bourbon Penn #34, 2024.
- "Corridoring," Quarterly West, 2023."
- “Dirge for Our Dead Mountain,” ergot, 2022.
- “And She Moves Like Smoke.” Wigleaf, 2022
- "Misconceptions of the Monstrous Tongue Dispelled,” Timber, 2022
- “Some Transcendent American Made Backyard Doom Machines,” Always Crashing, 2022
- “The Incident Report Cocooned to the HR Manager's Desk,” Wrongdoing Magazine (pg 87), 2021
- “When the Ten Thousand Ton Trilobite Attacked,” Abandon Journal, 2021
- “Disappearer,” Bourbon Penn, 2020.
- “Two Step Program,” Bourbon Penn, 2019.
- “Amorpho & The Leering Freak,” F(r)iction Magazine, 2019.
- “Fashion Week: Central Occupied Territory,” Boston Review, 2017.
Nonfiction:
- “Partial Curriculum by Blood,” New Delta Review, 2022
Poetry:
- “when people laugh at a word like soul,” Arkana, 2021
- “inheritance,” Occulum, 2021
- “enkindle,” Ample Remains, 2021