Arya F. Jenkins

Fiction Writer

Struthers, OH
Ohio US
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Author's Bio

Arya F. Jenkins is a Colombian-American poet and writer whose work has been published in journals and zines such as About Place Journal, Across the Margins, Agave Magazine, American Writers Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Awakenings Review, Blue Heron Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Eunoia Review, The Feminist Wire, Fictive Dream, Five on the Fifth, The Fictional Café, Flash Fiction Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, The Mackinaw, MacQueen's Quinterly, The Matador Review, Metafore Literary Magazine, Mojave Literary Review, Parhelion Literary Magazine, Pulse, Rag Queen Periodical, RHINO Poetry, Serving House Journal, Sinister Wisdom, Sleet Magazine, Vol. 1 Sunday Stories Series, and many others. Her fiction has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Awards. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, Jewel Fire (AllBook Books, 2011), Silence Has A Name (Finishing Line Press, 2016), Love & Poison (Prolific Press, 2019), and Singing in the Dark (Alien Buddha Press, 2022), a short story collection, Blue Songs in an Open Key (Fomite, 2018) and a mixed genre novel, Punk Disco Bohemian (NineStar Press, 2021).

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Punk Disco Bohemian (NineStar Press, 2021)
,
Blue Songs in An Open Key (Fomite Press, 2018)
Prizes won: 

Jerry Jazz Musician Short Story Contest for "So What" in 2012

Nominations:

Pushcart Prize Nominations--(poetry) 2015; (fiction) 2017; (fiction) 2018

Best of the Net Nomination--(fiction) 2021 (prose poetry) 2024

Pushcart Nomination--(poetry) 2022

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Joan Didion NF Shirley Hazzard F Mary Karr NF/Mem Jeanette Winterson F/Mem Lucia Berlin SS Alice Munro SS Lydia Davis SS Patti Smith Mary Oliver P Cynthia Atkins P James Baldwin NF F. Scott Fitzgerald SS/F
What I'm reading now: 
Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Woolgathering by Patti Smith

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, French, Spanish
Born in: 
Bogota
Colombia
Raised in: 
and U.S.
Peru
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Last update: Aug 27, 2024