Jen Knox

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Columbus, OH
Ohio US
Email: 
Jen.Knox395@gmail.com
Website: 
www.jenknox.com
Twitter/X: 
@jenknox2
RSS feed: 
www.jenknox.com/blog

Author's Bio

Jen earned her BA in English at Otterbein University and her MFA from Bennington College. Her short fiction can be found in The Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel), The Adirondack Review, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Little Fictions, Literary Orphans, Lunch Ticket, The New Guard, Poor Claudia, Room Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her collections include The Glass City (Prize Americana winner), Resolutions (AUX Media), and After the Gazebo (Pen/Faulkner nominee). Jen’s chapbook of flash fiction, Dandelion Ghosts, will be out later this year. 

Links to learn more about Jen: jenknox.com; Insight Timer; Unleash Creatives

Education: 
Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
Annalemma Magazine
,
Clackamas Literary Review
,
flashquake
,
Litro Magazine
,
Lost In Thought
,
Metazen
,
Midwest Literary Magazine
,
Narrative Magazine
,
Per Contra
,
SLAB
,
Slow Trains

Fiction

Anthologies:
The Best Small Fictions 2017 (Braddock Avenue Books, 2017)
,
Modern Shorts (Fiction Attic Press, 2015)
Books:
We Arrive Uninvited (Steel Toe Books, 2022)
,
Resolutions: A Family in Stories (Aquarius Press, 2020)
,
The Glass City (Hollywood Books International, 2017)
,
After the Gazebo (Rain Mountain Press, 2015)
,
To Begin Again (All Things That Matter Press, 2011)
Chapbook:
Don't Tease the Elephants (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2014)
Journals:
A cappella Zoo
,
A-Minor Magazine
,
Adirondack Review
,
Ardor
,
Bartleby Snopes
,
Bound Off
,
Cheap Pop
,
Chicago Literati
,
Cleaver Magazine
,
Connotation Press
,
Crannóg
,
Eclectic Flash
,
Edge
,
Eunoia Review
,
Fiction Southeast
,
Flash Fiction
,
Foundling Review
,
Fwriction : Review
,
JMWW
,
Literary Orphans
,
Litsnack
,
Long Story Short
,
Lunch Ticket
,
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
,
Monkeybicycle
,
Pank
,
Per Contra
,
Pine Hills Review
,
Prick of the Spindle
,
Printers Row Journal
,
Ramshackle Review
,
Room of One's Own
,
Saturday Evening Post
,
Short Story America
,
Skidrow Penthouse
,
Stone Highway Review
,
Subliminal Interiors
,
Sunday Salon
,
The Criterion: An International Journal in English
,
Thrice Fiction
,
THRUSH Poetry Journal
,
Thumbnail Magazine
,
Used Furniture Review
Prizes won: 

Winner, 2021 Steel Toe Books Prose Award (WE ARRIVE UNINVITED); Winner, Prize Americana for Prose; Finalist Lorian Hemingway Fiction Contest; Finalist, 2015 Dundee International Book Prize. Semi-finalist, Gold Line Press's 2014 Chapbook Competition. Art Farm, Residency, 2014 Glimmer Train, Family Matters Competition, Honorable Mention, 2013 The Adirondack Review's Fulton Prize, Finalist, 2013 Northwind Magazine, Short Fiction Contest, Finalist, 2013 Northwind Magazine, Short Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention, 2013 Monkey Puzzle Press Chapbook Competition, 3rd Place, 2013 Prick of the Spindle, Fiction Open Competition, Honorable Mention, 2013 Glimmer Train, Very Short Fiction, Finalist, 2013 Glimmer Train, Short Story Award, Finalist, 2013 Vermont Studio Center, Residency Grant, 2013 "Types of Circus" Named One of Wigleaf's 2012 Top 50 by Dan Chaon Readers Favorite Award, Winner, Women's Fiction Category 2011 (To Begin Again) Global Short Story Awards, Winner, May 2011 (The Code) Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Winner, Short Fiction Category 2011 (To Begin Again) Bananafish Short Story Competition, Winner, 2010; Glimmer Train, Fiction Open, Finalist, 2010 Glimmer Train, Short Story Award, Honorable Mention, 2009 Glimmer Train, Short Story Award, Honorable Mention, 2010 John Kessler Memorial Endowment for the Arts Award, Winner, 2007 Quiz & Quill, Nonfiction Award, Winner, 2007

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Death of Art by Chris Campanioni, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Columbus
Raised in: 
Columbus, OH
Ohio
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Last update: Dec 02, 2021