About
Jen Knox earned her BA in English at Otterbein University and her MFA from Bennington College. Her short fiction can be found in The Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel), Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Room Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her collections include The Glass City (Prize Americana winner), Resolutions (AUX Media), and After the Gazebo (a Pen/Faulkner nominee). Jen’s chapbook of flash fiction, Dandelion Ghosts, was released in 2021, and she is currently working on a craft book about how to write compelling fiction.
Her debut novel, We Arrive Uninvited, is the 2021 Prose Award winner from Steel Toe Books and will be available in fall 2022
Featured Work
After the Gazebo
AFTER THE GAZEBO is a wonder: complex, compelling, beautifully told.
"Jen Knox writes with a deceptively quiet fierceness that will sneak up behind you and grab you by the throat, clutch your heart, and never let go. Her motley cast of characters find themselves caught at the fault line of before and after, tasked to challenge the veracity of whether 'a person can't start over if he's always looking back.' The disparate ways they claw and fight, strive and fail to succeed are testament to Knox's range and her deep understanding of the human condition. The stories in this accomplished collection will make you ache, will make you think, and will stay with you long after you turn the final page."
--Sara Lippmann, author of Doll Palace
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- WE ARRIVE UNINVITED Winner, Steel Toe Books Award Top 50 Launch Pad Prose Competition
- THE GLASS CITY Award winner, Press Americana for Prose
