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College of Arts and Humanities

Venita Blackburn

Professor

English | 559.278.2701 | Office: Peters Business Bldg. 439

blackburn@csufresno.edu

Education

Compton High School
University of Southern California, B.A.
Arizona State University, M.F.A.

Courses Taught

ENGL 43 Beginning Fiction
ENGL 163 Adv. Fiction
ENGL 263 Grad. Fiction 
ENGL 169T Publishing and Editing
ENGL 299 Special Topics

Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in thenewyorker.com, Harper’s, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s, the Paris Review and others. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction for her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes in 2017. She is founder of the literary nonprofit Live, Write (livewriteworkshop.com), which provides free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Blackburn’s second collection of stories, How to Wrestle a Girl, will be published fall of 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.