Jess Burnquist earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. She is the Vice President of Impact Education at Creative Visions, where she directs the CV Changemakers programming. Before her current role, she taught high school English in the Phoenix metropolitan area. She is also the co-founder and author of Kindred Spirits, an educational blog sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers.
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Sundress, Persona, Natural Bridge, Ms. Magazine, and various online and print journals. She received the Joan Frazier Memorial Award for the Arts at ASU and has been honored with a Sylvan Silver Apple Award. She and her husband, new empty-nesters, reside in Southern California. Her poetry chapbook, You May Feel Your Way Past Me, is available from Dancing Girl Press.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Sundress, Persona, Natural Bridge, Ms. Magazine, and various online and print journals. She received the Joan Frazier Memorial Award for the Arts at ASU and has been honored with a Sylvan Silver Apple Award. She and her husband, new empty-nesters, reside in Southern California. Her poetry chapbook, You May Feel Your Way Past Me, is available from Dancing Girl Press.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats