Jacqueline Kolosov

• Biography

  • THE RED QUEEN'S DAUGHTER

  • GRACE FROM CHINA

  • VAGO

  • LITERARY FICTION AND NONFICTION

I was born and raised in and around Chicago. I now live in West Texas with my husband the poet William Wenthe, our daughter Sophia; and Edward, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. I am also an avid hiker, a yoga teacher, and one who would like to devote more time to languages and the visual arts.

 

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Favorite Quotes

 

It is requir’d
You do awake your faith.

 

~Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

 

Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for
Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes
Loving me in secret.
It is here. 

 

~James Wright, “Milkweed”

 

Strong emotion must leave its trace; and it is only a question of discovering how we can get ourselves again attached to it, so that we shall be able to live our lives through from the start.

 

~Virginia Woolf, “A Sketch of the Past”

 

Education

 

PhD: English Literature, New York University
MA: English Literature, University of Chicago
BA: English Literature, University of Chicago

 

BOOKS
Young Adult Fiction

 

• Miranda, Hyperion, 2009
• The Red Queen’s Daughter, Hyperion, 2007

 

Middle Grade Fiction and Nonfiction

 

• Grace from China, Yeong & Yeong, 2003
• Women of Adventure, Oliver Press, 2002
• Women with Wings, Oliver Press, 1999

 

Poetry

 

• Vago, Lewis-Clark Press, 2007
• Souvenir, Modigliani, Winnow Press, 2005 (chapbook)
• Why Plant Bougainvillea, Finishing Line Press, 2005 (chapbook)
• Fabergé, Finishing Line Press, 2003 (chapbook)
• Danish Ocean, Pudding House Press, 2003 (chapbook)

 

Editor of Anthologies

 

• The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Women Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, With Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Lewis-Clark Press, 2008
• Writing on the Wind, With Laura Payne Butler and Lou Rodenberger, Texas Tech University Press, 2005

 

Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction in National and International Journals Including

 

The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry, Passages North, Orion, PRISM International, The Malahat Review, Ecotone, Western Humanities Review, and others.

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

• 2007-2008 Humanities Initiative, Texas Tech University
• 2005-2006 Humanities Initiative, Texas Tech University
• 2005, Glen Workshop Fellowship, Image Magazine
• 1992-1996 Multi-Year Fellowship, New York University

 

Employment

 

Associate Professor, English & Creative Writing, Texas Tech University