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Michael JauchenMichael Jauchen was born in Dallas, Texas, and he stayed there
until it got too unbearably hot for him. He moved north to attend a small college
outside Chicago where he earned a BA in English. After putting in some
post-college time at a Swiss bank (which unfortunately had no big piles of
money or hefty vaults), a library, a consulting firm, and a community center,
Chicago got too unbearably cold, so he moved back down South to go to school
in Lafayette where he’s finally feeling just right. His short fiction has
been published in Kodon and The Kankakee Review, and he’s
currently collaborating on a novel tentatively titled The Johnny Rockandrollers
Meet the Rondelles in White Tights. |
Michael Jauchen So Far
Education
2002-present UL-Lafayette,
Doctoral study
1996-2000 Wheaton
College (Illinois), BA English
Teaching Experience
Fall 2003 Teaching
Fellow, UL-Lafayette, Freshman Composition
Publications
2000 “To Kiss
the One You Love,” The Kankakee Review, Fall.
2000 “Michael
Jauchen: An Autobiography in 4 Parts,” Kodon, Spring.
1999 “The Old
Way,” Kodon, Spring.
1999 “The
Power [of the Novel],” Kodon, Fall.
Awards
2003 Timothy
W. Adams Award for Creative Writing, UL Lafayette.
2002-present: University
Fellowship, UL Lafayette.
Readings, Performances,
Presentations
2003 UL-Lafayette
Graduate Student Conference, “Samuel Beckett and Donald
Barthelme: A Discussion of Major/Minor Influence and Postmodern
Midrash” (April).
2003 UL-Lafayette
Graduate Reading Series (April).
2002 Sound
Technician and “The Advocate” in Dayana Stetco’s “The Dick
Traces” (November).
2001 Fiction
Reading at Myopic Books, Chicago, IL (Spring).
2000 Fiction Reading
at Myopic Books, Chicago, IL (Spring).
Michael Jauchen on UL-Lafayette
I’ll admit, even though I grew up in Texas, I completely neglected Louisiana as a state until I moved to Lafayette in 2003. Once here, I immediately knew that this neglect had been a great mistake. There is something distinct about life in Lafayette (is it joy?) that you find everywhere in the city—in the fried shrimp po-boy sandwiches, in the music at the Blue Moon Saloon, in the late night outdoor parties during hurricane season, in the sticky summertime, in the downtown Art Walks, and yes, even in the people who cash your rent checks.
And this definitely carries
over into the English Department at UL-Lafayette, an atmosphere that has not
only provided me with rigorous coursework in a number of varied literary eras,
but (more importantly to me as a creative writer) also with critically
supportive workshops. The creative writers here are serious about what they do,
and they’re serious about what you do, and being in an atmosphere like this has
encouraged (more appropriately, forced) me to do some of my best writing so
far. It’s a great place to meet so many different people who are after the same
thing—great, worthwhile writing.
And last but not least, what
you have heard is true . . . the English Department’s basketball team is very
much alive and kicking (especially when the refs aren’t looking). We may not be
the most athletic or the prettiest, but we’ve got something they’ll never take
away . . . the charismatic heart of a champion. See Jerry McGuire for details.
Read a Sample of
Mike’s Writing
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