Theodora Ziolkowski

Dr. Theodora Ziolkowski teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of the novella, On the Rocks (2018 & 2020, Sam Houston State University/Texas Review Press) and the short story chapbook, Mother Tongues (2015 & 2018, The Cupboard).

A recipient of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for the Novella, Dr. Ziolkowski's work has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, the National Alumni Association (University of Alabama), and Inprint (Houston, Texas). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Short Fiction (England), no tokens, Oxford Poetry (UK), and Prairie Schooner, among over sixty other literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and exhibits. In the past, Dr. Ziolkowski has served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, Fiction Editor for Big Fiction, and Assistant Poetry Editor for Black Warrior Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was honored as a ‘30 Under 30’ alum, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. Her debut poetry collection is entitled Ghostlit.