Occupation Writer | Nationality American | |
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Notable works The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards Books Why We Came to the City, Unchangeable spots of leopards, Legacy: An Anthology Similar Marissa Stapley, Regina Calcaterra, Jenny Milchman, David Whitehouse | ||
Kristopher jansma on the unchangeable spots of leopards and his publishing story
Kristopher Jansma is an American fiction writer and essayist. Born in the Lincroft section of Middletown Township, New Jersey, he attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.
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- Kristopher jansma on the unchangeable spots of leopards and his publishing story
- Kristopher jansma why we came to the city
- Career and accolades
- Books
- Anthologies
- Essays and stories
- References
Kristopher jansma why we came to the city
Career and accolades
His short fiction has appeared in ZYZZVA, Adult Magazine, Recommended Reading, Columbia Magazine, and The Blue Mesa Review. His "Why We Write" was selected as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2014, after being published in Slice Magazine. He has also written essays and reviews for The New York Times,Salon, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, The Millions, Johns Hopkins Magazine, and The Believer.
He is the winner of the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award for Fiction. His first novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, received an Honorable Mention for the 2014 PEN/Hemingway Award, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and was also longlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. It was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and an American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick for April 2013.
He wrote the Literary Artifacts column for Electric Literature from 2011 to 2013.
In 2013 Flavorwire named him one of their 50 Up-and-Coming New York Culture Makers to Watch. Paper Magazine included him on their list of 2013's Beautiful People.
He is an assistant professor at SUNY New Paltz College and a graduate instructor at Sarah Lawrence College. He has previously taught creative writing at Manhattanville College and SUNY Purchase College. Jansma lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Books
Anthologies
Essays and stories
