About the Author

Jennine “DOC” Krueger is a mother, writer, artivist, public speaker, and educator in Austin, Texas. She has competed in world, national, and local slam poetry competitions. She holds four national titles and has now coached several national teams for Austin Poetry Slam and Austin Neo Soul. Her poetry and dramatic works have been published in Santa Fe Literary Review, and the Sierra Nevada Review as a winner in the Brian Turner Literary Arts Prize, and her dramatic work has won best of fest five times in Austin’s Frontera Festival. She has earned an M.Ed. from Concordia University and an MFA in poetry from Spalding University, and she is also an Emerging Teaching Artist Fellow through Mindpop and the City of Austin. She has over 20 years of teaching experience at both secondary and undergraduate levels as well as 20 plus years of public and motivational speaking around identity, positive thinking and mental health.

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Her scholarship has led her to discuss culture and comics at the National Pop Culture Conference, Wizard World’s Comic Con, virtually in the 2020 SXSWEdu conference on Teaching for Social Justice with Comics, and The Cosplay Poetry Slam at SanJapan 2021 in San Antonio Texas. Her writing has a vast range across politics, race and identity as well as across genres with children’s literature and a hip-hop musical retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (currently in development through Theatre Now New York’s National Musical Lab). Her research interests are in spoken word performance, medieval literature translations into hip-hop, social and restorative justice, and marginalized heroes in comic books and graphic novels. She is represented by Tobias Literary Management and is currently shopping an anime screenplay pilot Ars Poetica that will focus on poetry and mental health. She is also developing a new musical about Doris Miller, a Black WWII hero, and this project is a retelling of the Salem Witch trials with an emphasis on the narrative from Tituba.