Will received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa's Program in Nonfiction Writing in May of 1997 and has since been teaching undergraduate course offerings in both the English and Rhetoric Departments. He is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, NCTE, CCCC, and the Midwest Writing Center Association. Will has served as a faculty leader in the Rhetoric Department's Professional Development Program. He directs department's multimedia and web-based instructional technology projects. Will co-directed the Speaking Center in 2006-2007.

Will teaches a range of undergraduate course offerings including Honors and GER Rhetoric classes, the Undergraduate Nonfiction Workshop, Nonfiction Writing, Forms of the Essay, Forms of Nonfiction, Contextual Research and the Personal Narrative, and Multimedia Writing. He has also supervised numerous Independent Study Projects in Creative Nonfiction, as well as the Undergraduate Honors Teaching Practicum in Multimedia Writing. In past semesters Will has served as a faculty editorial advisor for the undergraduate publications, SMACK! and Earthwords.

Will Jennings’ poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in The Wapsipinicon Almanac, Trapeze, The Journal for Research in Rural Education, Exchange, Fugue, and Water~Stone Review. His work has received awards from Icon Magazine, Fugue Journal, and the 2008 Brenda Ueland Prose Prize. His essay, After Action Report has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is currently at work on a creative, investigative memoir on the intergenerational mapping and language of trauma. 

Will is also a musician and songwriter who performs in concert and at regional festivals as a member of the band, Big Wooden Radio. He has appeared in concert on Iowa Public Television, at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, at South by South West (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, and as a regular with AWP's annual "Writers Who Play".