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About
Jennie Evenson has received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, and VCCA and holds both a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. As a screenwriter in LA, she worked as a consultant at Netflix for five years. She has work in The Pinch, Ninth Letter, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Brevity, and elsewhere, and she recently acted as an assistant flash fiction editor for CRAFT. She lives on the West Coast with her loved ones and a Cairn terrier who looks like Toto. Find her on Instagram @jen__evenson. She/her.
Publications
SHORT FICTION & ESSAYS
The Pinch, The World’s Most Interesting Trees (Spring 2024)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Those Who Struggle the Most (September 2023)
Pithead Chapel, Five Phone Calls, One Lie (August 2023)
Brevity, I am Not the One They Found in a Cornfield (September 2023)
Ninth Letter, Cherry, Lemon, Seven (Fall/Winter 2022-2023)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Anything You Lose Comes Round in Another Form, novelette (2022)
Flash Fiction Online, A Midsummer Night’s Abduction (2022)
Escape Pod, The Spice Portrait (2017)
Awards & Such
2025: VCCA Fellow
2023: Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop
2023: Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop
2021 & 2022: Tin House Summer Workshop
2003: Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship at the Henry E. Huntington Library
2003-2004: Endowed Fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities
2023-2024: Assistant Flash Fiction Editor, CRAFT Literary
Member, Science Fiction Writers of America
CONTACT
If you’d like to contact me, please email jennie.evenson [at] gmail [dot] com.