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Writing Consultants

Ben Apatoff

Ben Apatoff is a Sarah Lawrence College graduate who has taught at NJIT since 2018. He is the author Metallica: The $24.95 Book, and his next book, Body Count (33 1/3), will be released in fall 2023 by Bloomsbury.

David Bushman

David Bushman is the author of five books, most recently Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks (January 2023) and Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind 'The Place Beyond the Pines.' (June 2023). He spent two decades as a TV curator at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television + Radio). He teaches English and Communications at various colleges in the New York Metropolitan Area. He has run six NYC marathons and has seen 2001: A Space Odyssey at least twenty times.

Drew Ciccolo

Drew Ciccolo’s fiction has appeared in Tin House 66 and The Masters Review Vol. III. His nonfiction has appeared in the anthology Into Sanity (2019). He has an MFA in fiction and a PhD in American Studies, both from Rutgers-Newark. He teaches a variety of courses in American Studies and English at Rutgers-Newark and First-Year-Writing at NJIT.

Jennifer Fischl-Kruger

Jennifer Kruger began her career as a journalist writing for FinancialWorld Magazine, United Press International, and other business publications. After graduating from Rutgers-Newark with a masters in English in 2009, she taught developing writers at Morris County College. Teaching first year writing since 2012 and ENGL 99 for the past two years, she has worked with native speakers and English language learners at NJIT.

Bridget Hawkins

Bridget Hawkins is a New Jersey native, a writing educator, and a poet. She studied creative writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she earned a BFA, and at New York University, where she received her MFA. Her work was previously published in the anthology, It Occurs to Me I Am America, in 2018.

Kevin Kilroy

Kevin Kilroy has been teaching literature, creative writing, and composition since 2010, and he is happy to be back working with the Writing Center at NJIT after taking a brief hiatus to return to graduate school at SUNY-Albany, where he is currently working on his doctoral dissertation in rhetoric and composition. He previously earned an MA in English literature and an MFA in poetry, both at Rutgers-Newark; in addition to teaching, he writes poetry and formerly served as co-editor of Barzakh Magazine. In his own time, he enjoys playing Magic: the Gathering and watching too much television with his wife and two cats in Jersey City.

Jeni Lozauskas

Jeni L. Lozauskas is an educator and poet from New Jersey. She received her BS with a double major in Microbiology and Psychology from Rutgers University and received her MFA in Writing with a poetry emphasis from Lindenwood University. She currently adjuncts at several colleges and universities through New Jersey. She is experienced in teaching a wide multitude of writing and communication courses including Remedial and Developmental English, Composition for ESL, Introduction to Academic Research, Dynamics of Communication, Introduction to Communication, Technical Writing, and Creative Writing.

Peer Writing Consultants:

• Abrar Awadeh
• Abdullah Elsobky
• Malika Sako