Jonathan Escoffery is the author of If I Survive You, a collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami, navigating cultural dislocation, tenuous family ties, and the many, conflicting meanings of Black American identity, forthcoming fall 2022 from FSG/ MCD, as well as the forthcoming novel, Play Stone Kill Bird. He is the winner of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction, and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellowship. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, ZYZZYVA, Pleiades, AGNI, The Best American Magazine Writing 2020, and elsewhere. He has received support and honors from The Best American Short Stories anthology, Prairie Schooner, Passages North, Aspen Words, the Somerville Arts Council, The Writers’ Room of Boston, Kimbilio Fiction, the Anderson Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. Jonathan earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of Minnesota and attends the University of Southern California’s Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature Program as a Provost Fellow. He is a 2021-2023 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Website: jonathanescoffery.com

Twitter Username: @J_Escoffery

Publications

• IF I SURVIVE YOU , MCD/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux (September 6, 2022)

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship(2020)
• Plimpton Prize for Fiction(2020)

Employment

• Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (September 2021 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from University of Minnesota (May 2014)

Genres of Interest

Fiction