Karen Offitzer

Film Faculty; Lecturer; Director of Undergraduate Filmmaking

Karen Offitzer received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, and an MA from NYU.  She is the Founder and former Program Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at National University, where she also served as director of Writing Across the Curriculum.  Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in several literary journals and magazines, and she has received grants and awards for her short documentary work, most notably for her short, I Am Not Who You Think I Am, exploring the effect of a year-long free humanities education program on the lives of those who were unhoused and working poor. She has held teaching positions at Loyola Marymount University and Antioch University, served as Assistant Professor at The Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, NY, and currently lives in Brooklyn.