Jill Stukenberg

The Waters of Green Bay

Creative Writing professor Jill Stukenberg will complete a novel based on the historic eras of pollution and clean-up of the lower Fox River and the waters of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This work of Eco-fiction aligns with Stukenberg’s artistic goals to center her work in contemporary Midwestern life and environment. Building on work in progress, Stukenberg will use the fellowship for research, revision, and completion of this project.

Jill Stukenberg is a Professor of English at UW–Stevens Point. She co-edits Midwest Review and her debut novel News of the Air won the Big Moose prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2022. She was a Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, and previously taught for the UW Colleges. She has researched and published in the area of creative writing pedagogy. Her short stories have appeared in Marrow, Midwestern Gothic, and The Collagist, among other places, and recently her essay “Notes from the Bayside” was included in On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes, edited by Michael Welch. She has taught and held residencies at Write On, Door County, near where she grew up. Relevant to her current creative work, she is an open-water swimmer.