Printable view of Jen Knox

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Columbus, OH

Ohio US

Email:

Jen.Knox395@gmail.com

Bio:

Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. Her first novel, We Arrive Uninvited, won the Steel Toe Books Award, and her second novel, Chaos Magic, was released in 2025 from Kallisto Gaia Press. She is also the author of The Glass City, which won the Press Americana Prize for Prose. Jen's short fiction can be found in Chicago Tribune, Prose Online, McSweeney's Internet Quarterly, The Saturday Evening Post, and more. She won CutBank’s Montana Prize in Nonfiction for "Disembodied" and the San Miguel Contest for her essay, "Teeth." Jen is the proud recipient of grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council to complete a collection of narrative essays, AT WORK, which is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press UWSP.

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

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Columbus

Raised in:

Columbus, OH

Ohio

RSS feed:

https://www.jenknox.net/ [2]

Website:

https://www.jenknox.com [3]

Prizes won:

Author of three award winning books: CHAOS MAGIC (2025, Kallisto Gaia Press - Joshua Tree Prize Finalist), WE ARRIVE UNINVITED (Steel Toe Books Prize Winner), and THE GLASS CITY (Winner, Prize Americana for Prose).

Recipient: Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, 2025

"Volunteer," Essay., Honorable Mention, New Millenium Writers. 2025

"Blackouts," Essay., Pushcart Nominee, ELJ. 2025

ABOUT THE WORK, Memoir, Finalist. Minerva Rising’s 2023 Memoir Contest

Finalist, Trio House Press 2024 Memoir Contest, Thanks to the Ohio Arts Council for a grant to complete this project.

CHAOS MAGIC, Novel. Kallisto Gaia Press; Finalist, 2023 Joshua Tree Competition (forthcoming).

Recipient of an Artist grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, 2024.

"Teeth," Essay., Winner, 2023. San Miguel Prize

"Factory Work," Essay. Gordon Square Review Finalist, 2023. New Millenium Writing Awards,

"Steady," Essay. Honorable Mention, 2023. Tom Howard/John H. Reid Contest,

"Disembodied," Essay. WINNER, CutBank Montana Prize in Nonfiction (soon to appear in Issue 99)

Finalist, 2022. Cutthroat Barry Lopez Prize for Nonfiction

Finalist, 2022. New Millenium Writing Awards

DESPITE THE WORK. Chapbook., Finalist, Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition

WE ARRIVE UNINVITED. Novel:

Winner, 2021. Steel Toe Books Award.

Winner, 2021. Winter Goose Publishing Award.

Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.

Second Rounder, Launch Pad Prose Competition.

Redlist, Coverfly.

DANDELION GHOSTS. Flash.

Winner, 2020 Flash Fiction Magazine Award.

THE GLASS CITY. Stories.

Winner, 2016 Press Americana Award.

Finalist, 2016 Calvino Prize from The University of Louisville.

TO BEGIN AGAIN. Stories.

Winner, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Fiction.

RESOLUTIONS. Stories.

Semifinalist, 2018 Book Pipeline Competition

Short stories.

Best Short Fictions, 2017. Anthology.

Finalist, 2021 Women On Writing Essay contest

Finalist, Dundee Book Awards.

Finalist, Glimmer Train Award.

Finalist, Certy's Prize.

Wigleaf's Top 50, 2012.

Education:

Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College

What I'm reading now:

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Writers Retreats:

Vermont Studio Center

Prefers to work with:

Any