After half a career working as a high school English teacher, essayist Jo Scott-Coe now writes and teaches in voluntary exile from that system, practicing recovery and creative witness. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in publications such as Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Babel Fruit, Swink Online, Ruminate, Narrative Magazine, ONTHEBUS, The Chariton Review, CRATE, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, Rattle, KB Journal, Spirituality & Health, Ninth Letter, So to Speak, and The Los Angeles Times. Her work is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Green Mountains Review, Turnrow, Memoir(and), Inland Empire Magazine, and the essay collection (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience (Cambridge Scholars Press). An independent researcher, Scott-Coe is a new assistant professor of English and creative writing at Riverside Community College in southern California. She also teaches writing workshops from home and in community education programs. She's currently at work on a new book: Hot for Teacher: Sexual Bullying in the Feminized Classroom. Her essay, "Teaching at Point Blank," has received a Pushcart Special Mention for 2009.
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