Jamie Odeneal is a writer and teacher living in the Washington, DC area.
Jamie’s fiction has appeared in the Furious Gravity anthology, Meetinghouse Magazine, Moon City Review, and online at Bull Men’s Fiction. Her essays have been published in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Mothering magazine, among others. She is currently at work on a novel.
Jamie was awarded a residency at the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow and selected for a Teacher & Librarian Scholarship at the Key West Literary Seminar. She has participated in novel workshops at the Lighthouse Writers’ LitFest and the Southampton Writers Conference.
After graduating from the University of Delaware, Jamie settled in the DC area where she earned her Master’s in Education from The George Washington University. She is a National Board Certified teacher with nearly two decades of experience working in high schools. She currently works with adult English Learners at an alternative public high school.
Jamie lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband, two teenage daughters, and goldendoodle Reuben.
Read some of Jamie’s work:
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Fiction - The Layover - Grace and Gravity: From the Attic - April, 2023
“Last night in Santorini, a guy had called her beautiful and she’d actually believed him, at least while the ouzo pumped through her blood and his hands were in her hair. It was easy to believe him, a total stranger. The easiest thing in the world.”
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Essay - American Myths: Teaching Immigrants in the Age of Trump - Los Angeles Review of Books - May 2, 2017
“An effective teacher doesn’t tell her students what to think, but how to think, and in my case, how to express those thoughts in a new language. I can help my students find their voices in English, but it’s up to them to speak for themselves.”