Jen Michalski (born 1972) is an American fiction author and novelist.

Biography

She received her BA in Language and Literature from

St. Mary's College of Maryland St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) is a public liberal arts college in St. Mary's City, Maryland.Maryland State Archives, Online Manual, "St. Mary's College Of Maryland: Origin & Functions" http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/25univ/stmarys ...

in 1994 and an MS in Professional Writing from

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in 1999. She has since remained in

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. Her debut novel, ''The Tide King'', was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2013 (2012 winner of BLP's Big Moose Prize). Her second novel, ''The Summer She Was Under Water,'' was published by Queens Ferry Press in 2016 and was acquired by Black Lawrence Press in 2017. Her collection of novellas ''Could You Be With Her Now'' was published in 2013 by

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, and she also authored two collections of fiction, ''From Here'' (Aqueous Books, 2013) and ''Close Encounters'' (So New, 2007). She edited the book ''City Sages: Baltimore'' (CityLit Press, 2010), an anthology of Baltimore writers past and present, and published a chapbook, ''Cross Sections,'' with Publishing Genius Press in 2008. Her fiction has been published in journals such as ''The Collagist'', ''Blue Lake Review,'' and others. Michalski is actively involved in the literary community, running the online literary quarterly ''jmww'' since 2004 and co-hosting the monthly fiction reading series, The 510 Readings, in Baltimore from 2007-2014 with writer

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and currently hosting the monthly fiction reading series, ''Starts Here!''

Awards and accolades

Bibliography

''The Tide King'' (2013) ''Close Encounters'' (2013) ''Could You Be With Her Now'' (2013) ''The Summer She Was Under Water'' (2017) ''You'll Be Fine'' (2021)

Notes

External links

Jen Michalski's website

"Baltimore City Guide" (Michalski's essay in ''Poets and Writers'')

"The Girl's on Fire" (''Baltimore Magazine'' profile of the author)
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