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 memoir in essays, Teaching at Point Blank, is forthcoming from Aunt Lute Books in late 2010.
Meanwhile, you can find her work in publications such as Hotel Amerika, Green Mountains Review, turnrow, Memoir(and), Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Babel Fruit, Swink, Ruminate, Narrative Magazine, Ninth Letter, So to Speak, and The Los Angeles Times. Her interviews with journalist Richard Rodriguez and poet Donna Hilbert appear in Narrative and in The Chiron Review, respectively. Her conversation with Margaret Atwood is also forthcoming in Narrative.
Scott-Coe is a new assistant professor of English composition and creative writing at Riverside Community College in southern California. She is also an independent researcher on themes of gender, sexuality, and violence in education. Her writing about a disturbing 8-year legal case of student-on-teacher sexual bullying and harassment appears in (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (Cambridge Scholars Press).
In 2009, Scott-Coe received a Pushcart Special Mention in nonfiction as well as a Notable listing in Best American Essays. She’s currently at work on a new book.
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