Joanna Howard
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
http://joannahowardwritessentences.com
Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208
What I do
I write fiction and creative non-fiction. I teach prose writing and mutable forms in practice-based courses and workshops. I also teach narrative theory and 20th and 21st Century literature and film, and courses that explore world building, speculative ecologies, and absurdist and fabulist fictive modes.
Professional Biography
Joanna Howard is Associate Professor of Literary Arts specializing in prose writing and prose and poetry hybrids, with a background in narrative theory and contemporary literature. She is the author of the novel Porthole (McSweeney’s 2025), the memoir Rerun Era (McSweeney’s, 2019), Foreign Correspondent (Counterpath, 2013), a story collection On the Winding Stair (Boa editions, 2009) an artist’s book In the Colorless Round, (Noemi, 2006) and Field Glass, a speculative novel co-written with Joanna Ruocco (Sidebrow, 2017). Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Verse, Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Bomb, Chicago Review, Lit Hub, Brooklyn Rail, and places elsewhere. She has also collaborated on translations from French including Walls by Marcel Cohen (Black Square, 2009) and Cows by Frederic Boyer (Noemi, 2014).
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., English Creative Writing, University of Denver, 2004
- MFA, Fiction writing, Bowling Green State University, 1999
- BA, English, Oklahoma State University, 1997
