About

Angela Jane Fountas is a former Hugo House writer-in-residence and Jack Straw writer. She has been awarded an Artist Trust Fellowship and grants from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and 4Culture. Her work has appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Quick Fiction, Diagram, Sentence, and elsewhere. She is currently working on the revision of a novel with her agent. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama.

Featured Work

"God Bless a Girl Who Thinks Ahead"

2009

Contemporary fairy tale published in the Aquamarine Issue of Fairy Tale Review

Other Works

  • Waking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally

    2005

Awards and Recognition

  • Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, 2009
  • Writer-in-Residence, Hugo House, Seattle, 2008–2009
  • Arts Special Projects Grant, 4Culture, King County, Seattle, 2006
  • CityArtist Projects Grant, Office of Arts & Culture, Seattle, 2006
  • Jack Straw Writer, 2006