Campus Directory

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Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Literature Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Web Site

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
Hum I - rm 234

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Mondays 2:15pm-4:15pm, drop-in or by appt. email in advance for Zoom.

Mail Stop Literature Department

Biography, Education and Training

Jennifer Tseng's website

Research Interests

grief & trauma; mental health; fiction; creative nonfiction; poetry; interdisciplinary collaboration; collaboration with existing texts; multiheritage identities + queer & trans identities & the intersections between them; literature by women of color, women in translation, & queer women

Teaching Interests

grief & trauma; mental health; fiction; creative nonfiction; poetry; interdisciplinary collaboration; collaboration with existing texts; multiheritage identities + queer & trans identities & the intersections between them; literature by women of color, women in translation, & queer women

Selected Publications

Mixed Feelings (essays) (JackLeg Press, forthcoming 2026)

Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive (poems) (UMass Press, 2024)

The Passion of Woo and Isolde (flash fiction) (Rose Metal Press August 2017) 

Not so dear Jenny (poems) (Bateau Press February 2017) 

Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness (novel) (Europa Editions May 2015); in Italy by

Edizioni E/O, Rome, 2016; in Denmark by Forlager Bazar, January 2018. 

Red Flower, White Flower (poems) (Marick Press December 2013) 

The Man With My Face (poems) (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, April 2005) 

Courses Graduate Writing Studio
Fiction Senior Seminar
Advanced Fiction Workshop
The Art of Omission
So Many Little Lives: Representations of Trauma in Asian American Literature
Change Me: Stories of Radical Transformation
Introduction to Creative Writing
Lit I