Marla J. Jarmer is a professor of rhetoric and composition, the writing center director, and the editor of written works for Waiting for Rain at Danville Area Community College in Danville, Illinois, where she has been awarded both the A. L. Webster Endowed Chair (2016) and the Dorothy Duley Endowed Chair (2014 and 2017). She currently serves as the assistant editor as Liaison for Two-Year College Caucus at AWP for Open: Journal of Arts,& Letters, is the co-editor and a contributing author of The Bully Pulpit, Presidential Speeches, and The Shaping of Public Policy (Roman and Littlefield 2015), and has published works of poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction.
