Jenna Gersie

Jenna Gersie is a PhD student in English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she studies American literature, environmental humanities, and digital humanities. Her research analyzes log cabins in American literature from new materialist and bioregional perspectives. Jenna has a BA in environmental studies from Skidmore College and an MS in environmental studies from Green Mountain College. She has participated in the Wildbranch Writing Workshop, the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Environmental Literature Institute, and she completed a fiction writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She is Graduate Student Liaison for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and managing editor of The Hopper. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in About Place Journal, Kudzu House Quarterly, Zoomorphic, Orion, and others, and is forthcoming from The Fourth River and The Journal of Wild Culture.