Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2022
baltazjr@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Website
Fall 2026 Office Hours
TT 12:30 - 1:30PM & by appointment
Office: Keezell 410
Specialization
Fiction Writing, Multi/Cross-genre Writing, Speculative fiction, Multi-ethnic and Diasporic American Literature
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Kansas, 2022
M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Kansas, 2018
B.S., 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
