RobJenkins.com

(You've heard of an annotated bibliography? Well, this is an annotated biography--a bio I often use for official releases, updated for our purposes with parenthetical notes that explain the information, add to it, or sometimes just tell the truth.)

Rob Jenkins grew up outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated from Ringgold (Georgia) High School. (Whether or not I've ever actually "grown up" is a matter of some debate. You might want to ask my wife.)  He earned a bachelor's degree in English at West Georgia College and a master's degree in writing at the University of Tennessee. (Yes, I'm a huge Volunteer fan. Not that that means much. Most of the Volunteer fans I've seen are huge.)  Rob has been an associate professor and administrator at a number of two-year colleges, arriving at Georgia Perimeter College in 2000 as department chair of the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments. (If you don't understand the difference between an "associate" and an "assistant" professor, just remember: they're abbreviated with the same three letters.) Before taking the reins as Director of the Writers Institute in 2004, he also served as interim Dean of Academic Services.  Rob is a weekly Lifestyle columnist for Gwinnett Daily Post, Georgia's second-largest daily newspaper, and also writes a regular feature on two-year college teaching careers for The Chronicle of Higher Education. (My newspaper column also runs each week in the Rockdale Citizen and the Newton Citizen--and of course on RobJenkins.com!) His poems and essays have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, The Dekalb Literary Arts Journal, Clearing House, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, The Paducah Sun, The Panama City News-Herald, the Monroe Journal, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Rob currently lives in Gwinnett County with his wife and four children. (This isn't strictly true anymore. I mean, I'm still alive, still in Gwinnett, still have one wife and four children. However, two of my children have now left the nest, more or less. Not that that means I'm old.)