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Jennifer Dziura
Jennifer Dziura
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	writer, educational humorist, and educator
Known for	Co-host of Williamsburg Spelling Bee

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Jen Dziura is a New York-based writer, educational humorist, and educator. She is best known for co-hosting the Williamsburg Spelling Bee.

Early life

Jen Dziura was born and raised in Virginia Beach. In the mid-nineties, Jen worked as the teen columnist for the Virginian Pilot.^[1] She was a philosophy major at Dartmouth College, which is the basis for her one-woman show, "What Philosophy Majors Do After College^[2] She has perfect SAT and GRE test scores.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Since graduating from Dartmouth, Jen has held a variety of jobs, including dotcom entrepreneur, art model, body double, and egg donor. She was featured in an Associated Press article^[3] about egg donation. These jobs later formed the basis for her one-woman show, "What Philosophy Majors Do After College," which she currently tours with to colleges and festivals.

These many jobs are also frequently referred to in "Bullish," the career column she writes for TheGloss and TheGrindstone.

In 2010, the Oprah Winfrey Network released to the Wall Street Journal an inspirational clip^[4] featuring Jen giving advice to her younger nerd-girl self. Jennifer was featured in a Sci Fi Channel pilot for the television show Brain Trust,^[5] and appeared as an expert on “how to be witty on a date” on VH-1’s "Can’t Get a Date".^[6]

Writing

Jennifer writes Bullish, an advice column which appears weekly on The Gloss, and is headquartered at GetBullish.com. Her columns advocate "fiendish hard work, dastardly cleverness, extreme advance planning, and overall panache."^[7]

Jennifer's jokes have appeared in The Complete Idiot's Guides To Jokes [8]. Her writing has also been published on McSweeney's Internet Tendency.^[9] Jennifer has written a 22-page booklet for Vice magazine on “How to Debate”^[10] to promote Dewar’s Scotch. She has written logic exercises for the textbook, Introduction to Logic, and wrote the Foundations of GMAT Verbal textbook. While the Foundations of the GMAT Verbal textbook cite that Jennifer has contributed to "over a dozen educational books", the extent of such contributions and the number of contributions is unauthenticated and in debate as compared with her listed contributions according to her website.

Comedy

Jennifer writes and performs three solo shows: “What Philosophy Majors Do After College”, “¡The Punctuation Show! (How to Use Tiny Symbols to Make Meaning Without %$^&#* Up)”, and “The History of Women in 60 Minutes”.^[11]

She has toured the East Coast and sold out shows in D.C. and Norfolk. Her shows have been performed for New York University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Indiana University, West Virginia University, Bowling Green State University, Palm Beach State College,^[12] the Empire State Book Festival, and at the Boston's Women in Comedy Festival.^[13]

The Williamsburg Spelling Bee

Since 2004, Jennifer and her co-host bobbyblue have run the Williamsburg Spelling Bee [14] , a real, cabaret-style spelling bee for adults at Pete's Candy Store. The Williamsburg Spelling Bee has been featured in the New York Times,^[15] on NPR,^[16] in Time Out New York,^[17] Games Magazine^[18] and on Good Morning America,^[19] amongst others.^[20]

/////Her humor maintains an avid following of those who find irreverence wrongly defined as mocking the brutal murder of a small child because she was pretty.////

People such as the one who commented on her website that: "If you parade vile and degraded as clever and cool you will find that you have a different sort of following than aimed-at... the kind that decides successes in endeavors that matter even to marginals who see no conflict in being this repulsive towards a child and making a fame for herself hosting spelling bees. Remember when an endeavor you want fails through no means of recourse that it was this vile and pointlessly prurient attack on Jon-Benet Ramsay that influenced your stars against you. " In response to these statements by Jennifer Dziura:

Dear Mr. Ramsey and (sadly deceased) Mrs. Ramsey, I killed JonBenet. In the Library.

With the Candlestick.

I did it because I was jealous of her precious little doll-face, which you carefully made up to look like that of a precious little doll-whore. I coveted her tiny Mary Janes, so black and shiny. I admired her precious (and precocious!) runway catwalk. She had the biggest hair I had ever seen on such a tiny girl.

True, I have never been to Colorado. And true, in 1996, I was in high school. But I killed JonBenet in spirit. Or maybe you did, with all that hairspray. Come get me! Sincerely, Jenisfamous

http://www.jenniferdziura.com/dev/2006/08/important-announcement-jenisfamous_18.html#comment-150276

References

^ Eaton, Lorraine (March 5, 2007). "Former Teen Columnist Comes Home For Comedy Gig". Hampton Roads. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
^ Dziura, Jen. "[http://www.popintellectual.com/philosophy.html What Philosophy Majors Do After College]". Retrieved April 1, 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
^ Irvine, Martha (February 19, 2007). "Women Increasingly Donating Eggs for Cash". The Associated Press. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ "Note To Self". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ "Brain Trust". Sci Fi Channel.
^ "About".
^ Dziura, Jen. "How To Make Money Without Becoming A Republican". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ "Amazon". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Dziura, Jen. "McSweeney's Internet Tendency". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Dziura, Jen. "Dewar's Guide to Debating" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Dziura, Jen. "JenniferDziura.com". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ "The Punctuation Show" (PDF).
^ "JenniferDziura.com". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Dziura, Jennifer. "The Williamsburg Spelling Bee". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Goodman, Stephanie (April 1, 2012). "Spare Times". The New York Times.
^ Calhoun, Ben. "Adults Put The 'Bee' In Orthography". NPR. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ McGuire, Judy. "Swapping Spit". Time Out New York. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ "Games Magazine".
^ "NBC Nite Pics". Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Dziura, Jennifer. "About". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

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[1] Eaton, Lorraine (March 5, 2007). "Former Teen Columnist Comes Home For Comedy Gig". Hampton Roads. Retrieved April 3, 2012.

[2] Dziura, Jen. "[http://www.popintellectual.com/philosophy.html What Philosophy Majors Do After College]". Retrieved April 1, 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)

[3] Irvine, Martha (February 19, 2007). "Women Increasingly Donating Eggs for Cash". The Associated Press. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[4] "Note To Self". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[5] "Brain Trust". Sci Fi Channel.

[6] "About".

[7] Dziura, Jen. "How To Make Money Without Becoming A Republican". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[8] "Amazon". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[9] Dziura, Jen. "McSweeney's Internet Tendency". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[10] Dziura, Jen. "Dewar's Guide to Debating" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[11] Dziura, Jen. "JenniferDziura.com". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[12] "The Punctuation Show" (PDF).

[13] "JenniferDziura.com". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[14] Dziura, Jennifer. "The Williamsburg Spelling Bee". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[15] Goodman, Stephanie (April 1, 2012). "Spare Times". The New York Times.

[16] Calhoun, Ben. "Adults Put The 'Bee' In Orthography". NPR. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[17] McGuire, Judy. "Swapping Spit". Time Out New York. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[18] "Games Magazine".

[19] "NBC Nite Pics". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

[20] Dziura, Jennifer. "About". Retrieved April 1, 2012.

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