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Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Cannon Beach, OR

Oregon US

Email:

andpride@gmail.com

Bio:

Jan Priddy was born in Corvallis, Oregon and completed two Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in the visual arts and a BA in Education at the University of Washington, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her metal work and ceramic sculpture was shown in galleries and museums throughout the west. And then she had children. Her writing has earned publication in Brevity magazine and the Brevity blog, CALYX, Liminal Stories, Metaphorosis, Raven Chronicles, StringTown, WORK, The Humanist, and North American Review, as well as inclusion in Women Runners (2001) and What Does It Mean to Be White in America? (2016). Since completing the Pacific University MFA program in fiction (2017), she continues writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on the north Oregon coast.

Part of the first chapter of a novel, ALL THE DAUGHTERS SING, is available in a podcast at Metaphorosis.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Corvallis, OR

Oregon

Raised in:

Corvallis, Portland, and Seattle, WA

Washington

Website:

https://janpriddyoregon.wordpress.com [2]

Prizes won:

“Best of the Best” award in the holiday Brevity Smile Contest, for “On Yoolis Night" (2015), Finalist in the 2010 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize in Hunger Mountain (2010); Honorable Mention Short Story Award for New Writers in Glimmer Train (2009); Class Speaker for Pacific University MFA graduation (2007); Soapstone residency (2005); Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship (2003); Arts & Letters fellowship (2002); Pushcart nomination (2001); Fiction Prize from Oregon Writers Colony (2001); Teacher as Writer Award from OCTE (1996).

Prefers to work with:

Any