JENNIFER ROBERTS
Jennifer.roberts@playwrightscentersf.org
jlynneroberts@gmail.com
EDUCATION
degree
● MFA in Creative Writing, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA., May 2009.
● Bachelor of Arts, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH., June, 2007.
•Major in English, concentration in Creative Nonfiction.
•Major in Women’s Studies.
● College of San Mateo 1996-2003.
•Courses of interest in creative writing and history.
QUALIFICATIONS and SKILLS
editing
●Editor, copy-editor, page designer. KATE, Otterbein’s first feminist ‘zine, 2005-2007.
●Editorial Staff Member Quiz & Quill, literary journal, Otterbein College, 2005-2007
●Editorial Staff Member. Aegis, Otterbein’s Humanities Journal, Otterbein College, 2005-2007.
computer
● Proficient in Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro,
Adobe Premiere Elements, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Publisher,
and Final Draft.
innovating
● Created Otterbein’s first feminist publication KATE.
● Published three successful printings KATE, winter 2005/spring 2006/Fall 2006.
● Brought 2007 V-Day campaign to Otterbein’s campus.
managing
● Grew KATE from single-person to fully staffed on-going publication printing 250 copies each run.
● Managed editorial staff for KATE publication.
● Planned and successfully managed the integration of a new computer system.
● Managed Veterinary staff and schedules, and trained personnel.
leadership
● Organized campus wide 2007 V-Day Otterbein benefit campaign
to raise funds to stop violence against women.
● Initiated relationships with professors in many disciplines for the success of KATE.
● Produced 2007 benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues.
researching
● Researched the Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell diaries, and produced a digital essay incorporating text, image, and sound.
● Researched and published on Women’s Clubs of Late Nineteenth Century.
● Researched and published on Ann Lee’s Shakers as Utopian
Society.
● Researching and writing a book on Taos, New Mexico and Mabel Luhan Dodge.
● Researching and writing book length essayistic exploration of one woman’s epistolary history, incorporating multiple genres and new media.
grab bag
● Random skills have also included: multi-tasking, smiling, naming that tune, and instinctually locating remote coffeehouses.
PUBLISHED WORK
scholarly
●“Bringing Back Biology: Understanding Gender-Specific Medicine and Its Effect on Feminism,” Kate, 2006.
●“A Woman’s Religion: How Ann Lee Broke Through Patriarchy,” Aegis, 2006.
●Body of Brooklyn by David Lazar, book Review, Aegis, 2006.
●“Late Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Clubs: An Education for Evolving Citizens,” Aegis, 2005.
creative
● “Midnight Sun,” (prose). OMG! Lit, 2007.
● “Family Plot,” (play). Quiz and Quill, 2007.
● “Wrong Number,” (screenplay). Quiz and Quill, 2007.
● “Lunch is Coming,” and “Something New,” (poetry). Quiz and Quill, 2007.
● “Where is Benny Hammond These Days,” (fiction). Quiz and Quill, 2007.
●“What the Bathtub Gave Me,” and “I Dreamed You into Existence,” (poetry). Quiz and Quill, 2006.
● “The Penance of a Beleaguered Runner,” (essay). Quiz and Quill, 2006.
●“The Black Russian,” (poetry). Have Food, Will Travel, 2006.
●“Taos,” (essay). Have Food, Will Travel, 2006.
●101 Fridays, (single author essay chapbook). 2006.
●“Dragon Well,” (essay). Quiz and Quill single author chapbook: 101 Fridays, 2006.
●“The Equation of Rage Solved with Hibiscus Plum,” (essay). Quiz and Quill single author chapbook: 101 Fridays, 2006.
●“Calling,” (fiction). Quiz and Quill, 2005.
●“Daughter,” and “Incomplete,” (poetry). Little Red Book, 2005.
●“It is With Great Anticipation That I Check My Mailbox Everyday,”
(essay). Little Red Book, 2005.
AWARDS
honors/Contests
● Stage reading, Boeto, Playwrights Center of San Francisco,
December, 2008.
● Winner, First Place, playwriting, Quiz & Quill spring 2007.
● Winner, Second Place, playwriting, Quiz & Quill spring 2007.
● Recipient, The John W. Fisher Memorial Senior Writer’s Project
Endowed Award, 2006-07.
● Recipient, Cornell Merriss Study of Women in Society, 2006-07.
●Recipient, James Martin Humanities Award for “epitomizing the spirit and vitality of interdisciplinary humanities work on campus,” 2006.
● Winner, Quiz & Quill spring 2006 single-author chapbook. ● Winner, First Place, playwriting, Quiz & Quill spring 2006.
● Winner, Second place, poetry, Quiz & Quill spring 2006.
● Awarded partial scholarship for Natalie Goldberg’s Taos Writer’s Workshop, August, 2006.
● Recipient, Professor Merriss ’33 and Carol Cornell Endowed Research Fund, 2005-06.
● Recipient, Otterbein’s Student Bread and Roses Award for “outstanding leadership and dedication in feminist learning and activism,” 2005-06.
● Dean’s List, academic years 2004/05, 2005/06, and 2006/07.
● Honors Program.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPEMENT
training
● Studied with Ken Prestininzi, New Play Institute at The Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco, December, 2008.
● Studied with Phillip Lopate, Writers Institute, Skidmore College, June/July 2007.
● Studied with Natalie Goldberg at 2006 Taos Writer’s Workshop.
● Attended 2006 workshop at Center for Digital Storytelling.
● Internship, Center for Digital Storytelling, 2007-08.
fundraising
●Solicited underwriting for KATE publication.
●Raised over $1200 for V-Day Otterbein 2007 to stop violence based on gender/sexual orientation by producing and organizing a benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues.
●Raised over $10,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of
America, 2001-2003.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
●Member Dramatists Guild of America
●Member AWP
●Member PCSF
ACADEMIC/INTERN/VOLUNTEER SERVICE
● PCSF, Board member, Secretary, San Francisco, CA
● Virago Theater, Volunteer, House Manager, Alameda, CA
● Center for Digital Storytelling, Intern, Berkeley, CA, Spring/Summer, 2008.
●Student representative, Women’s Studies Advisory Committee,
Otterbein College, 2005-2007.
●Student representative, Environmental Studies Program Review
Committee, Otterbein College, 2005-2006.
OTHER WORK HISTORY
● CCA Graduate Program, Office Assistant, San Francisco, CA, Spring/Fall 2008.
● Veterinary Surgical Associates, Customer Service Representative,
San Mateo, CA, 2003.
● White Ivie Animal Hospital, Receptionist, San Bruno, CA, 2002-
2003.
● Bayshore Animal Hospital, Head Receptionist, San Mateo, CA,
1992-2002.
● WEIR, radio announcer, Steubenville, OH, 1987-88.
● WGRP/WEXC, radio announcer, Greenville, PA, 1984-1987.