Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Ph.D.

Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Ph.D., is a scholar and lyric essayist. She is the author of two scholarly books, “Blood at the Root” and “Captive City.” Her essays have appeared in the major journals of U.S. literature, including “Signs,” “American Literature,” “Mississippi Quarterly,” “minnesota review,” and “south.” Dr. Lightweis-Goff’s creative nonfiction has appeared in “The Los Angeles Review of Books,” “The Point,” “Liberties,” and at her Substack platform “The Butcher’s Darling,” where she writes on grief, precarious labor, sobriety and intellectual work that was “born in the back of the house.”