Writing

	Jennifer’s jokes appear in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes (Alpha/Penguin 2006).
	Jennifer is the author of the Dewars Guide to Debating,a 22-page standalone booklet packaged with theFebruary 2007 issue of Vice magazine. Click to download (PDF)
	Jen is also a quoted “expert” in the upcoming Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights by Jacob Kalish, has a humorous short story in Sex and Candy: Sugar Erotica, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, and contributed a three-page “how-to” to Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild.
	Published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:  A MEMO TO MY NEW BOYFRIEND RE: CLARIFICATION OF OFFER SELF-HELP BOOKS FOR HIPSTERS AN OPEN LETTER TO JAMES RANDI REGARDING HIS “ONE MILLION DOLLAR PARANORMAL CHALLENGE”

   

A short piece to which Jen sold the film rights for the production of an animated short:

• Milk

Published on Junkiness.com:

• Ways to Make News About War in Iraq More Interesting to Average Americans

Published on HelloHilarious.com:

• Inside Jen Dziura’s fan mail

Published on Economist.com:

• Put them all together, they spell M-O-T-H-E-R

  

Pro-Blogging 

In July 2007, Jen was the hired for a weeklong guest editor stint on Jewcy.com’s Daily Shvitz blog. Here are some of her posts:

• It’s Not the Borscht Belt - Perhaps the Pabst Blue Ribbon Belt?
• Jewishness Worth $500 Premium
• Fundamentalists Right: Gays Are Only Gay When They Feel Like It
• Nothing Wrong with a Little Proactive Propaganda
• Cockfighting
• How a Southern Gentile Learned About Judaism from Sassy Magazine
• “Shiksa” is a Nicer Word When Followed by a Cheerful Emoticon
• Next, We’ll Play “Adult Altar Boy”!
• Gay Tweens Need Dolls
• Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
• Our Troops Need Tampons (and the Comedy of Jennifer Dziura)
• Flocabulary: World War II in Hip-Hop
• Claudia Cogan Interview: Lay off the Menorahs
• My Omnibus Farewell Post: GIRLS GONE MILD, Wendy Shalit, and “Modest Fashion Shows”

  

Print

Jennifer has published over 150 newspaper articles in publications including The Virginian Pilot (as the “teen columnist” in the mid-nineties), Virginia Beach’s This Week at the Beach, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. She is the winner of a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award in Humor Writing. Here are some of her clips:

• Going the Distance: The first woman captain of the Dartmouth Boxing Club recalls her biggest fight- Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
• Promotional Modeling: How to make money (and avoid agony) - Supermodels Unlimited
• Molly Crabapple at Jigsaw Gallery - Coagula Art Journal #73
• Let’s get ready for visitors from outer space - The Virginian Pilot
• Take a number if you want to keep our area code - The Virginian Pilot
• Marco Polo skeptic probably doesn’t even like cookie dough - The Virginian Pilot
• Alabama chain gang convicts link work with displeasure - The Virginian Pilot
• Bean there, done that - The Virginian Pilot
• Multiple births create a multiplicity of issues - The Virginian Pilot
• Culture on the move will drive on through - The Virginian Pilot

  

Business writing

• Jennifer has written for Jungle MBA magazine, contributed to SAT preparation manuals appearing at Barnes & Noble, and written pitches and proposals for interactive agency Super-Fi.
• Internet Marketing Metrics (PDF download) - Course Reader for BUS 419 class at California Polytechnic University

 

Current Projects

• Jen is working on a book-length collection of humorous essays. She has not yet signed with an agent.
• Jen has developed a one-woman show called What Philosophy Majors Do After College.
• In the course of blogging on Jenisfamous, Jen made up a new word and is working tirelessly towards its full inclusion in the English language.  Don’t mammate, check it out!