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Jesse Lee Kercheval
Occupation	Writer and teacher
Nationality	American
Genre	textbook, novel, nonfiction, poetry, memoir
Notable works	The Museum of Happines, The Dogeater, Space, The Alice Stories
Website
www.jlkercheval.com

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a writing teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the writer of various genres, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater.

Biography

Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in Fontainbleu, France. Raised up in Florida, USA, she studied in Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She studied with Janet Burroway, David Kirby, and Jerome Stern there. She also received her Bachelor of Arts in History at the university in 1983.

She then earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1986. She then worked at the DePaul University, Greencastle, Indiana, for one year.

She proceeded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, and was the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is currently the the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Sally Mead Hands Bascom Professor of English.

Works

• The Dogeater (1987)
• The Museum of Happiness (1993)
• Building Fiction (1997)
• Space (1998)
• World as Dictionary (1999)
• Dog Angel (2004)
• Chartreuse (2005)
• Film History as Train Wreck (2006)
• The Alice Stories (2007)
• Cinema Muto (2009)
• Brazil (scheduled to be published in 2010)

Awards

Her memoir, Space, won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. The Dogeater won the Associated Writing Programs Award 1986 in Short Fiction. The Alice Stories, won the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. Her novella, Brazil, was the winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest. David Wojahn selected her poetry collection Cinema Muto for the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award. The Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Prize 2006 was also won by her chapbook, Film History as a Train Wreck.