Jodi Egerton

Jodi Egerton is a celebrated workshop leader and book editor. Jodi’s workshops combine improvisation games with writing exercises to energize writers and encourage them to break through writer’s block.

Jodi also works as a wordslinger for Typewriter Rodeo, creating custom, on-the-spot poems for event guests, using a vintage typewriter. She's typed poems at all kinds of events--from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, to the beach in Cabo San Lucas, to Willie Nelson's ranch in Luck, Texas. You can hear her crafting poems on her 1970 Litton Imperial on Typewriter Rodeo’s weekly Texas Standard segment on Austin’s NPR station, KUT 90.5.

Jodi has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as Assistant Director of the Division of Rhetoric and Writing and the Training Specialist at the Undergraduate Writing Center. She is also a former professor at St. Edward’s University.