MS. JENNIFER KUCHTA

Retained Instructor
MFA, University of New Orleans, 1998

Jennifer Kuchta was born in northern Minnesota but spent the majority of her life in Colorado hiking, camping, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and showing American Quarter Horses. She received a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Colorado State University with a minor in Creative Writing.

In 1995, leaving her horses and mountains behind, Kuchta moved to New Orleans to attend the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop, where she concentrated on writing fiction and received her M.F.A. in 1998.

Upon completion of graduate school, Kuchta took up the martial arts and earned a black belt in kickboxing. She also became a nationally ranked amateur boxer and twice competed in the Women’s National Golden Gloves boxing tournament.

While pondering over whether or not to become a professional boxer, Kuchta taught at Delgado Community College for a year before returning to UNO as a full-time instructor in 1999.

Kuchta has since put down the gloves and been retained as an Instructor of English. She teaches Freshman Composition, Introduction to Fiction, and both the beginning and advanced levels of the undergraduate Fiction Writing Workshop.

Her fiction has been published in The Greyrock Review, The Southern Anthology and Rive Gauche.

BOOK SUGGESTIONS:

Once Were Warriors, by Alan Duff
The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
Jump, by Nadine Gordimer
Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6466

Email Ms. Kuchta@
jkuchta@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 325

Office Hours:

TTH 12:15-1:15pm
W 12:00-3:00pm

Courses for Fall 2009:

Engl 1158-030:
Freshman Composition II
TTH 9:30-10:45am

Engl 1158-037:
Freshman Composition II
TTH 11:00am-12:15pm

Engl 2238-008:
Introduction to Fiction
TTH 8:00-9:15am

Engl 2161-001:
Introduction to Fiction Writing
TTH 1:30-2:45pm