Jen Fawkes is the author of MANNEQUIN AND WIFE (LSU Press), a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, winner of the 2023 Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award, and Foreword INDIES gold medalist. Her collection TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME (Press 53) was a Foreword INDIES silver medalist, one of Largehearted Boy’s Favorite Collections of 2021, and a finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Single-Author Story Collection.

Locus has called Jen’s work “witty and dark, extravagant and savage,” and according to Library Journal, she is “a writer to watch.” Her short fiction has won numerous awards, including the 2021 Porter Fund Literary Prize, and has appeared in One Story, Lit Hub, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, Best Small Fictions, and many others. A two-time finalist for the Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction, Jen lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her debut novel, DAUGHTERS OF CHAOS, is coming in 2024 from Abrams Books.

Website: jenfawkes.com

Twitter Username: @fawkesontherun

Publications

• Daughters of Chaos: a Novel , Abrams Books - The Overlook Press (July 9)
• Tales the Devil Told Me , Press 53 (October 5, 2021)
• Mannequin and Wife: Stories , LSU Press (September 2, 2020)

Awards

• Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award(2023)
• Porter Fund Literary Prize(2021)
• Foreword INDIES Silver Medal, Short Stories(2021)
• Foreword INDIES Gold Medal, Short Stories(2020)
• Foreword INDIES Honorable Mention, Literary Fiction(2020)
• Press 53 Award for Short Fiction(2020)
• The Pinch Fiction Prize(2019)
• John Gardner Memorial Fiction Prize - Harpur Palate(2019)
• Washington Square Award in Flash Fiction(2013)
• Salamander Fiction Prize(2013)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Columbia University (May 1996)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University (May 2010)
• Doctoral Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from University of Cincinnati (August 2018)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting