Last week, the 2026 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair in Baltimore welcomed 10,500 attendees. As one of those attendees, I did my due diligence as […]
Jessica Danger
Assistant Professor of English
Jessica Danger is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanguard University, the Director of Education at Dead Reckoning Collective, and Joshua Tree Writers Retreat Co-Founder. She holds an MFA from Bennington College where she was also awarded the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship in 2025. She was nominated for the Lucy Grealy Nonfiction Prize, a finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize and also the 2024 Literary Awards.
Jessica’s work has been published widely, with forthcoming publications in The Sun Magazine and in Oh, Reader and her memoir, No Heroic Measures, is out in Spring 2026 with the Santa Fe Writers Project. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Keith Dow, and their family.