Jen Dziura is a New York-based writer, educational humorist, and educator.

Early life

Jen Dziura was born and raised in Virginia Beach. In the mid-nineties, Dziura worked as the teen columnist for the

Virginian Pilot ''The Virginian-Pilot'' is the daily newspaper for Norfolk, Virginia. Commonly known as ''The Pilot'', it is Virginia's largest daily. It serves the five cities of South Hampton Roads as well as several smaller towns across southeast Virginia ...

, after pitching for the position with a hand-written letter. She was a philosophy major at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

, the first person in her family to attend college. While in her sophomore year she started her first company, an internet marketing firm, and had 8 part-time employees by graduation. She has perfect GRE and SAT scores and a 780 on the GMAT, and has spent over a decade teaching in the adult education field.

Career and writing

Dziura graduated from

. In 2010, Dziura began writing Bullish, an advice column originally on The Gloss. Bullish also appeared on The Grindstone and the Daily Muse, before being headquartered on the GetBullish website. Koa Beck on DailyWorth wrote: "Get Bullish advocates designing your own career by finding fulfilling ways to create value in what you do." She is the author of two sets of GRE flashcards, the lead author and editor of ''The 5 Lb. Book of GRE Practice Problems'', the author of ''Foundations of GMAT Verbal'', and co-author of or contributor to numerous other test prep, debate, and logic books. While the ''Foundations of the GMAT Verbal'' textbook cite that Dziura has contributed to "over a dozen educational books", the extent of such contributions and the number of contributions is unauthenticated. Dziura wrote 22-page booklet for Vice magazine on "How to Debate" to promote Dewar's Scotch. She has written and performed comedy, touring the country and performing for the troops in Iraq.

Conference

Dziura founded the annual Bullish Conference, first held in 2013. The conference was originally held in Miami, FL but moved to Dziura's hometown of New York City in 2015, and will be held in California in 2016. Autostraddle described the Bullish Conference as "A vacation that helps you meet your goals in a powerful, focused, and inspiring way?"

The Williamsburg Spelling Bee

From 2004 to 2016, Dziura co-hosted the Williamsburg Spelling be with bobbyblue. Lauren Gill of The Brooklyn Paper wrote the Williamsburg Spelling Bee had "become so famous that "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" once modeled a murder victim on Dziura."

References

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