A Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, Jodie Childers is a New Orleans and Queens-based writer and documentary filmmaker whose interests include 20th-century transnational American studies, Icelandic literature, McCarthyism, and left-wing cultural history. She produced the documentary film The Other Parade which aired on RTÉ in Ireland. She also shot and directed Down by the Riverside, which premiered at The Woodstock Film Festival and was an official selection for the Athens International Film & Video Festival, the Capital City Film Festival, and the Berkshire International Film Festival. She has published her research in Comparative American Studies, Transatlantica, Resources for American Literary Studies, Jacobin, U.S. Studies Online, Boulevard, and The Hopkins Review, among others. In 2018, she was awarded the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship to pursue independent research and language study in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Her creative work has been featured in Poetry East, Appalachian Reckoning, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Feral Feminisms, The Portland Review, Slippery Elm, Eleven Eleven, Red Wheelbarrow, Northern Appalachia Review, and elsewhere. She received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Himan Brown Award, Second Prize in the Ledge Fiction Contest, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Open Fiction Contest. She has also been a finalist for the Tennessee Williams Festival Fiction Contest, the Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, the William Richey Short Fiction Contest, and the International Rita Dove Poetry Award. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in American studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.