JENNIFER SEAGRAVE

Jennifer comes from Redondo Beach, California, where she lived with her family for 30 years. She has four English degrees, including a Bachelor's Degree from UCLA and a PhD in British and American Literature from the University of Utah. She has taught at the U since 2004 and is passionate about working with first-year students and programming. She lives in Salt Lake City and has a 16-year-old daughter named Catherine. When she's not teaching and working on campus, she loves making stone jewelry, cooking, and playing with her two dogs, Twilight and Winter. Before becoming a professor, Jennifer worked as a beer, wine, and cheese buyer and manager, among other positions in the natural and gourmet food industry for 10 years. You can often find her playing D&D, writing creative nonfiction, attending Capital Church, or volunteering at the Women's Rescue Mission of Salt Lake.