Liz Jorgensen

Elizabeth Jorgensen is a teacher and writer. She received her undergraduate degrees from Marquette University. In 2009, she received her master’s from Carroll University and in 2017, was named the Graduate of the Last Decade. Her memoir, co-written with Nancy Jorgensen, Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold, is available from Meyer & Meyer Sport. Jorgensen’s teaching is featured on the Sejong Cultural Society’s website, in collaboration with the Korea Institute at Harvard University. Jorgensen has published several articles in the Journal of Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English and served as guest editor for the Fall 2017 issue. Other work appears in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Azalea (Harvard University’s Journal of Korean Literature & Culture), Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, and elsewhere.

My High School Students

They look like sweatpants and sleep.

They smell like gym, like Axe and dew.

They taste of rebellion and

sound of gossip and heartache.

Yet when they graduate, they

feel like people—like purpose, like pride.