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Faculty Bio

Jennifer is currently the Associate Director and Lecturer in the MS in Publishing Program at ̨��SWAGUniversity. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Hofstra University and her poems have been published in Bards Annual 2024: A Poetry Anthology, Paterson Literary Review, Italian Americana, Red Fern Review, Ovunque Siamo and VIA: Voices in Italiana-Americana. Her poems “Omphalos” (2018) and “I terri” (2015) received first place in the Concorso Internationale di Poesia held in Messina, Sicily. Her short story "Roots Among the Stones" was recently translated into Italian and included in the anthology E Cerano Gerani Rossi Dappertutto published by Radici Edizione (2024).
Jennifer began her career in book publishing as a publicity assistant at Macmillan and its imprints, Scribner and Atheneum. She then moved on to Dutton, where she eventually rose to Associate Director of Publicity and worked with a roster of critically acclaimed authors including Julia Alvarez, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jamaica Kincaid. In 1995 she joined Warner Books, now Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette. She was VP, Executive Director of Publicity there for many years and worked with a wide range of bestselling authors including Nicholas Sparks, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille and Brad Meltzer, among others.
Following her time at Hachette she was named VP, Director of Publicity at Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing. Some of the authors she worked with at S&S include Cassandra Clare, Mike Lupica, Jennifer Weiner, Tomie dePaola, Alex Morgan and Derek Jeter.

MFA, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 2018
Creative Writing

Research Interest

Italian-American literature and poetry.

Past Courses

PUB 699: Internship I
PUB 699: Internship II