About Emily Wortman-Wunder:

Emily Wortman-Wunder has taught scientific writing at the University of Colorado Denver since 2014. Her story collection, Not a Thing to Comfort You, won the 2019 Iowa Book Award and the Colorado Book Award, and she has had pieces in Guernica, the Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, High Country News, and elsewhere. Before returning to the classroom she worked as the managing editor of technical publications for the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration and as a grant writer and editor for a microbial ecology lab at Colorado State University.  

Area of Expertise:

Scientific Communication, Grant Writing, Science Writing, Science Journalism, Essay Writing, and Fiction Writing.

Courses Taught:

Writing in the Sciences, Core Comp II, Core Comp I, and various seminars on scientific communication at the Downtown and Anschutz campuses.