Dr. J’Lyn Chapman is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts Department in Regis College. She oversees the M.A. Specialization in Creative and Writing and Literature. She received her M.A. in English from the University of Central Florida and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver. Her book Beastlife was published by Calamari Archive in 2016. Her most recent work, To Limn / Lying In, won the PANK Books Creative Nonfiction Contest and was published in 2020. She has also published the chapbooks A Thing of Shreds and Patches (Essay Press, 2016), selected by Amaranth Borsuk as a winner of the Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest, and The Form Our Curiosity Takes (Essay Press, 2015), both of which can be found online. Her creative work and essays can be found in Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, and Black Warrior Review among other places. She has written on text and image, and her scholarly work can be found in the anthology Picturing the Language of Images (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013). She lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her spouse and two young children.
