About
Jaimien Delp teaches a variety of courses in the English Department Writing Program (most frequently English 125 and English 325), and is the Director of the Great Lakes Writers Corps. She received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan, where she was the recipient of a Zell Postgraduate Fellowship. She has received numerous awards for her teaching at the University of Michigan, including the BEN Prize for Outstanding Teaching in Writing, two Honored Instructor awards, and was a nominee for the Golden Apple Award. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Orion Magazine, Mid-American Review, Bridge and The Boardman Review, and her students have earned numerous awards for work they crafted in her courses, including two Betsy Carter Awards, Excellence in Upper-Level Writing in Humanities, the Granader Family Upper-Level Writing Prize in Humanities, the Feinberg Family Prize for Excellence in First-Year Writing, and numerous Hopwood Awards. Jaimien is especially passionate about both teaching and writing literary journalism and creative nonfiction, and guiding students as they develop their authentic voices in the pursuit of clear, compelling, researched, honest arguments.
