Profile

Elise Juska teaches the Fiction Writing Workshop and Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop in the Liberal Arts Division. She has published three novels with Simon & Schuster: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy; The Hazards of Sleeping Alone; and Getting Over Jack Wagner, which was named a "Critic's Choice" in People magazine and optioned for feature film.

Her short stories have been widely published in journals and magazines including Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Carolina Quarterly, Seattle Review, Black Warrior Review, Salmagundi, Berkeley Fiction Review, American Literary Review and Missouri Review, and her story "The Way I Saw the World Then" was cited by The Best American Short Stories 2010. 

Juska's nonfiction has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Esquire.com and the anthology The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York, among other places. She is a past winner of the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival and serves on the organization's Alumni Committee.

She received her BA in English from Bowdoin College, where she won the Hawthorne and Sinkinson fiction prizes, and completed her MA in Fiction Writing at the University of New Hampshire, receiving the Thomas Williams Memorial Award for fiction writing and the Charait Award for best short story.

Juska began teaching at the University of the Arts in 2000; in 2002, she received the Director's Award for Teaching Excellence. She has also taught in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire and at the New School in New York City. At UArts, she coordinates the Liberal Arts Division's Creative Writing Minor and serves as faculty advisor for the student literary magazine, Underground Pool.

Website: elisejuska.com