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. Her essays have been published in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Mothering magazine, among others.
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 writing workshops at the Lighthouse Writers’ LitFest, Southampton Writers Conference, The Writer’s Center, and Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop.
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 is presently at work on a novel.