EDUCATION

• M.A.: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA., Creative Writing, with honors, 2000
• B.A.: Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA., English/Professional Writing, with honors, 1995

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• Online Instructor, Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale, CA, 2014-present
• Courses taught: Creative Writing
• Adjunct Professor, Department of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2009-present
  • Courses taught: Introduction to Academic Discourse; Analytical Reading and Writing; Creative Acts; and Technical Writing
• Adjunct Professor, Center for Continuous Learning, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, 2004-2009
  • Courses taught: Fiction Writing; and Special Topics in Creative Writing
• Adjunct Professor, Department of English, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA, 2002-04
  • Course taught: English Composition

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

• Poet in Residence, Georgian Southern University, Statesboro, GA, December 2011
• Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, spring 2006
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, winters 2004-07
• Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, spring 2003

BOOKS

• Mud Cakes, Bona Fide Books, 2011

POEMS IN PERIODICALS

• “Sundays,” “Homework” and “Gossip,” Red Rock Review, No. 33, spring 2014
• “Visit,” Poet Lore, Vol. 109, No. 1/2 spring 2014
• “Early Exit,” Sport Literate, Vol. 8, No. 1, winter 2012
• “Best Behavior,” Puckerbrush Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, spring 2012
• “England,” The South Carolina Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, fall 2011
• “New Religion,” “Letter to Daniel LaRusso, Karate Kid” and “Cliffhanger,” Grist, No. 4, 2011
• “Faking Sick,” Cream City Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, fall/winter 2010/11
• “Atari Summer,” Main Street Rag, Vol. 16, No. 4, fall 2011
• “Class,” Red Rock Review, No. 27, spring 2011
• “New Toy,” Salamander, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2010
• “Lavatory,” Harpur Palate, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2010
• “Being Luke,” Bridges: Paths Between Worlds (Chrysalis Reader, Vol. 17), 2010
• “For Wile E. Coyote, Apetitius Giganticus,” Green Mountains Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2010
• “Beachcombers” and “Rambo Knife,” South Dakota Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, winter 2009
• “Loyalty,” Wisconsin Review, Vol. 44, 2010
• “Backyard,” Southern Indiana Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, fall 2009
• “Tree Frog”, Kaleidoscope: Lenses on Reality (Chrysalis Reader, Vol. 16), 2009
• “Between Jobs,” Antioch Review, Vol. 67, No. 3, summer 2009
• “Steinbeck’s Route,” “Inspiration,” “After the Movie” and “Tongue-Tied,” Reed, Iss. 62, 2009
• “In-Doors,” Tar River Poetry, Vol. 48, No. 2, spring 2009
• “Charity” and “Spring,” Fugue, No. 36, winter-spring 2009
• “The Loophole,” North American Review, Vol. 293, Nos. 3-4, May-August 2008
• “Swap Meet at Shea’s Theater,” Spoon River Poetry Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2008
•  “Cereal Prizes” and “Litter,” The Florida Review, Vol. 33.2, winter 2008
• “Garage,” Santa Clara Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, fall/winter 2008
•  “Reputation,” Roanoke Review, Vol. 33, spring 2008
• “Baby Steps,” Rattle, No. 27, summer 2007
• “September” and “Lent,” Blue Mesa Review, No. 19, spring 2007
• “Amelia Avenue,” “Before Supper” and “Potholes,” Poet Lore, Vol. 102, Nos. 1 & 2, spring/summer 2007
• “Ink,” Evansville Review, Vol. 17, 2007
• “Happy Hour,” Confrontation, Nos. 96/97, fall 2006/winter 2007
• “The Stop,” Pearl, No. 32, spring/summer 2006
• “Matinee,” Willow Springs, No. 57, spring 2006
• “Rule Change,” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Vol. 23, Iss. 1, fall 2005
• “Mosquitoes” and “Mud Cakes,” North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 72, Nos. 1 & 2, winter/spring 2005
• “His Own Troubles,” U.S. Catholic, June 2004

SHORT STORIES IN PERIODICALS

• “Contact,” River Styx, No. 76/77, 2008
• “Power,” Licking River Review, Vol. 39, 2007-08
• “Communion,” The Sun, Iss. 364, spring 2006
• “Veterans,” Berkeley Fiction Review, Issue 22, 2002
• “Midlife,” The MacGuffin, Vol. 18, No. 3, fall 2001
• “Apartment,” Notre Dame Review, No. 12, summer 2001
• “Offerings,” Indiana Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, spring 2001
• “Prospect Road,” Event, Vol. 29, No. 1, spring 2000

ANTHOLOGIZED WORKS

• “Amelia Avenue” and “Cereal Prizes,” Welcome to My World: A Writing Course, Equinox Publishing, forthcoming
• “Tongue-Tied,” Drawn to Marvel, Minor Arcana Press, spring 2014
• “For Wile E. Coyote, Apetitius Giganticus,” Uncle John’s Flush Fiction, The Bathroom Readers’ Institute, spring 2012

PUBLIC READINGS AND WORKSHOPS

• Connexions Art Gallery, Easton, PA, Sept. 14, 2013
• Passaic County Community College, Distinguished Poets Series, Paterson, N.J., April 6, 2013
• Freedom High School, Bethlehem, PA, May 18, 2012
• Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry, Cleveland Heights, OH, April 21, 2012
• Baldwin’s Book Barn, West Chester, PA, April 14, 2012
• BardFest 2012, Reading, PA, April 2, 2012
• Cobalt Café, Canoga Park, CA, March 20, 2012
• The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD, March 11, 2012
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA, February 29, 2012
• University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, Feb. 13, 2012
• University of Southern Georgia, Statesboro, GA, Dec. 1, 2011
• Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 7, 2011
• South Lake Tahoe High School, South Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 7, 2011
• Wooster High School, Reno, NV, Oct. 6, 2011
• H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, Verona, N.J., May 28, 2010 
• Wolfgang Books, with Margaret Ingraham, Phoenixville, PA., June 13, 2009
• Sunday Salon Prose Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, April 9, 2006
• Literary Arts Festival, Penn State Berks, Reading, PA, Feb. 8, 2006
• Bangor Area Middle School, Bangor, PA, May 2005
• Riverviews Artspace, with Taije Silverman and Wendy Miles, Lynchburg, VA, Feb. 2005
• Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, Nov. 2003
• Temple Gallery, with Rick Moody, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 2000

HONORS AND PRIZES

• Finalist, Richard H. Thornton Writer/Poet-in-residence fellowship, Lynchburg College, winter 2013
• Finalist, 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize, spring 2012
• Winner, Sport Literate Poetry Contest, 2012
• Guest Judge, Poetry Contest, Miscellany Magazine for the Arts, Georgia Southern University, spring 2012
• Pushcart Prize nomination, Bona Fide Books, “Mosquitos,” 2011
• Finalist, Brick Road Poetry Award, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011
• Winner, Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize, Mud Cakes, Bona Fide Books, 2010
• Winner, 2010 Emerging Writer Award, Grist (the University of Tennessee-Knoxville), 2010
• Finalist, Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award, 2010
• Honorable Mention, Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, “For Wile E. Coyote,” Winning Writers, 2010
• Nomination, Best New Poets 2010, “Between Jobs,” Antioch Review, 2010
• First prize, Edwin Markham Poetry Prize, Reed Magazine, 2009
• Finalist, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest, 2009
• Pushcart Prize nomination, Blue Mesa Review, “Lent,” 2008
• Honorable Mention, River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest, 2007
• Runner-up, poetry fellowship, 2007 Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, summer 2007
• Semi-finalist, 2006 and 2007 “Discovery”/The Nation poetry contests, spring 2006 and 2007
• Story highlighted by editors of The MacGuffin in Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, 2004-05
• Finalist, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, fellowship, County Monaghan, Ireland, spring 2005
• Semi-finalist, Chesterfield Writer’s Project, screenwriting fellowship, Los Angeles, CA, spring 2002

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• “For professor, telling stories is a life passion,” Temple News, http://temple-news.com/author/paigegross, March 18, 2014
• Review, The Scrapper Poet, http://thescrapperpoet.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/february-poetry-pick-mud-cakes/, Feb. 2013
• “Cozy Winter Reading from Bona Fide Books,” Bespoke Stuff & Things, http://www.bespoketruckee.com/blog/, Jan. 13, 2013
• Review, The Main Street Rag, Vol. 17, No. 2, spring 2012
• Review, LeRue Review, LeRue Press, May 2012
• Interview, WPCN 90.3, Northeast Ohio Public Radio, April 19, 2012
• “Jedi, Gene Simmons provide fodder for acclaimed poet,” The Gazette, Bethesda, MD, http://www.gazette.net/article/20120307/ENTERTAINMENT/703079807/1151/1151/jedi-gene-simmons-provide-fodder-for-acclaimed-poet&template=gazette, March 7, 2012
• Interview, WDIY, Lehigh Valley Community Public Radio, Feb. 6, 2012
• “Getting to know: Jason Schossler,” We Who Are About to Die, http://wewhoareabouttodie.com/2011/12/16/getting-to-know-jason-schossler/, Dec. 16, 2011
• “Poet brings childhood to life in words,” Lake Tahoe News, Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 8, 2011
• “Ashtabula native’s book released after winning national competition ,” Jefferson Gazette, Ashtabula County, OH Sept. 28, 2011
• “Award-winning Ashtabula native returns to film book trailer,” Jefferson Gazette, Ashtabula County, OH, July 28, 2011
• “Ashtabula native receives award for book of poems,” Jefferson Gazette, Ashtabula County, OH July 8, 2011
• Interview, Grist: The Journal for Writers, No. 4, http://www.gristjournal.com/issues/emerging-writers/jason-schossler-interview/, April 22, 2011
• Review, NewPages.com, http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2011-04-15/, April 15, 2011
• “Provinz kann so entspannend sein,” Der Neue Tag, Weiden/Schwandorf, Germany, June 14, 2006
• “Bei Vogelgezwitscher auf kreativer Ideensuche,” Petra Fröschl, Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Regensburg/Schwandorf, Germany, June 14, 2006
• “Emerging Writers Entertain, Inspire.”  Reading Eagle, Online Edition, Reading, PA, March 10, 2006
• “Kutztown Alumnus Speaks on the Write Stuff.”  The Keystone, Kutztown, PA, Nov. 13, 2003

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

• Legal Journal Editor and Correspondent for Andrews Publications Inc. (a Thomson Reuters company), Wayne, PA, 1996-present