My novel Twister was awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel and published by Black Lawrence Press. Twister was also a finalist for the Brighthorse Prize, the Housatonic Book Award in Fiction, and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Eggs in Purgatory, my creative nonfiction chapbook, was selected as a finalist in the WTAW Alcove Series Open and published by WTAW Press. New work has been shortlisted for the James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times. My stories and book reviews have appeared in Puerto del Sol, Blackbird, the Catamaran Literary Reader, the Portland Press Herald – Maine Sunday Telegram, and elsewhere.
I hold an MFA from Warren Wilson College and my favorite social media platform is the dog park. My wife and I are longtime San Franciscans. And since I bet you’re wondering: it’s pronounced Jean-Anne.
