Jill Stukenberg’s novel News of the Air was selected as the 2021 winner of the Big Moose prize from Black Lawrence Press and published in September 2022. Her short stories have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, The Collagist (now The Rupture), The Florida Review, and other literary magazines. She has received writing grants from the University of Wisconsin Colleges, and has been awarded writing residencies at Shake Rag Alley and Write On, Door County.

An Associate Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau, Stukenberg also publishes in the area of creative writing pedagogy, recently for the Journal of Creative Writing Studies and for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She has presented at conferences of the Creative Writing Studies Organization, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, and the Two-Year College English Association. Jill earned an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University, a BA in Writing from Marquette University, and has taught creative writing and composition, including developmental courses, at two-year colleges for over twenty years. At UWSP at Wausau, she advises the literary magazine Mush, and for ten years co-directed Wizarding Academy, a summer academic literacy camp for kids. In Wausau, she helps organize the annual Central Wisconsin Book Festival with the Marathon County Public Library.

Jill grew up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and has lived and taught in the southwest and the pacific northwest, and for one year in Illinois, before returning to her home state. She lives with the poet Travis Brown (author of In the Village That Is Not Burning Down), and they enjoy chasing their child through all of the elements, in all of the seasons.