resumes
Jennifer
Waters
aka Jennifer Blowdryer
1731 California Street #4
Berkeley, CA 94703
646-331-9263
jenniferblowdryer.com
Education
Columbia University, Writing Division
Concentration: Fiction, MFA 1988
Claire Woolrich Fellowship
University of California, English
BA 1984
Periodicals
1982 – present
New York Press, nypress.com
Regular
contributor
Editor
John Strausbaugh
1989 -1993
Downtown (NYC Weekly)
Music
column
1989 – 1992
Maximum Rock ÔN' Roll
Personal
Column
Editor:
Tim Yohannan
Teaching Experience
2007
Lectured on independent publishing at the New College's Writing and
Consciousness Program.
Spoke to Lowell High creative writing class about assembling their
own slang definitions.
Adjunct, Marymount Manhattan College
Critical Thinking: Satire
1993 -1995
Adjunct, Marymount Manhattan College
Adjunct, New York Institute of Technology
Freshmen
Composition
1984
Writing Workshop (with Lois Grffith)
Nuyorican Poetry Club
Publications
Good Advice for Young Trendy People
of All Ages
Anthology of semi-satirical guides to
alternative lifestyles
Editor and Contributor
Manic D Press, 2005
Jennifer Joseph editor/publisher
White Trash Debutante
Memoir
Galhattan Press, 1997
Jane King editor/publisher
The Laziest Secretary in The World
Graphic Novel
Piranha Press (imprint of D.C. comics),
1992
Where's My Wife?
Chapbook
Zeitgeist Press 1989
Wrong Wrong Wrong
Chapbook
Zeitgeist Press 1991
Modern English
Dictionary of Trendy Slang
Last Gasp 1984
Ron Turner editor/publisher
Anthologies
Outlaw Bible of American Poetry
Poetry, Thunder's Mouth Press 1999
Editor Alan Kaufman
Dick for A Day: What Would You Do
If You Had One?
Essay, Villard 1997
Editor Fiona Giles
Aloud:
Voices from The Nuyorican Poets CafŽ
Fiction, Owl Books 1994
Editor Miguel Algarin
Upcoming:
True Blue
Personal Essay, Soft Skull, 2006
Editor Annie Oakley, Sex Workers Art
Show
Women of The Bowery
Play Excerpt, Bowery Poetry Club, 2006
Editor Bob Holman
Nobody Passes
Essay, Suspect Thoughts 2007
Editor Matt Bernstein Sycamore
The Rebellion of 1965
Poetry, Zeitgeist Press
Editor Bruce Isaacson
Journals
Zeek:
A Jewish Journal of Thought And Culture,
essays, book reviews
Longshot.
Poetry
Tribes,
Prose Poetry
Steve Cannon, editor
Theatrical Productions
86'd Project/A Fond Look at The Gabors
Darkroom Theater, San Francisco, CA
2006
White Trash Debutante
Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY 2005
Theater Rhinoceros. San Francisco, CA
2002
Smut Fest
Center for Sex And Culture, San Francisco,
CA 2006
Schmidt Tivoli Theater, Hamburg, Germany
2000
14 Karat Kabaret, Baltimore, MD 1998
P.S. 1, New York (off site), NY 1997
Lower Links, Chicago, Il 1995
World's End Pub, London, UK 1994
Personal
Statement:
One of the
first things people ask me is "Where'd you get the name Blowdryer?"
"From a punk band I fronted in 1979, in San Francisco,"
I'm always proud to reply. I jokingly call myself a low level counter-cultural
icon, but I see myself as a new kind of teacher. Operating in both
academic and non-academic venues, I have tried to synthesize nontraditional
sources with the established literary canon to represent a truer spectrum
of American culture. This diversity of influences is also reflected
in my work, which as been taught at Sarah Lawrence and, most recently,
in Stephen Beachy's USF course on memoir writing. The best professors
I had in college and in life shared their passion for work I'd never
been exposed to, and showed me how to be ruthless in executing my
own craft. I would like to do the same for others.
I have always
been interested in work that re-humanizes the socially marginal. My
Smut Fests, started in 1988, were one of the first places where sex
workers could express themselves through performance. I am currently
working on a non-fiction book about social anomalies called Black
Sheep: This Could Be You, as well as The 86'd Project:
The chronically ejected, and their tormentors.
References
available upon request.