Jen Michalski

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Jen Michalski
Jen Michalski (2014)
Jen Michalski (2014)
Born1972
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSt. Mary's College of Maryland,
Towson University
GenreNovels

Jen Michalski is an American fiction author.

Biography[]

She received her BA in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1994 and an MS Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. She has since remained in Baltimore.

Her debut novel, The Tide King, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2013 (2012 winner of BLP's Big Moose Prize).[1] 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.[2] Her collection of novellas Could You Be With Her Now was published in 2013 by Dzanc Books,[3] and she also authored two collections of fiction, From Here (Aqueous Books, 2013)[4] and Close Encounters (So New, 2007).[5]

She edited the book City Sages: Baltimore (CityLit Press, 2010),[6] an anthology of Baltimore writers past and present, and published a chapbook, Cross Sections, with Publishing Genius Press in 2008.[7]

Her fiction has been published in journals such as The Collagist, Blue Lake Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Failbetter, Storysouth, The Potomac Review, The Literarian (The Center for Fiction), Barrelhouse, Gargoyle, 42 opus, and others. Michalski is actively involved in the literary community, running the online literary quarterly, jmww, since 2004 and cohosting the monthly fiction reading series, The 510 Readings,[8] in Baltimore from 2007-2014 with writer Michael Kimball and currently hosting the monthly fiction reading series, Starts Here![9]

You'll Be Fine[]

You'll Be Fine was published in August 2021 (NineStar Press).

The Summer She Was Under Water[]

The Summer She Was Under Water was published in August 2016/December 2017 (Queens Ferry Press/Black Lawrence Press).

The Tide King[]

The Tide King was published in May 2013 (Black Lawrence Press). The basic plot involves Stanley Polensky and Calvin Johnson, two soldiers who serve in Germany during World War II. Calvin, near death after being shelled, is given a bewitched herb by Stanley but then left for dead. Each soldier returns from the war and years pass. Calvin, discovering that he cannot age and cannot die, searches for Stanley to get answers. Also include is the back story of the herb, including the introduction of Ela, a 9-year-old Polish peasant girl who ingested the herb in the late 18th century and still lives physically, as a young girl, in the 20th century. She and Calvin join forces to find a cure for the herb.

The Tide King won the 2012 Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press.

Could You Be With Her Now[]

The novella collection Could You Be With Her Now, released by Dzanc Books in January 2013, showcases Michalski's range. The first novella, "I Can Make It to California Before It's Time for Dinner," examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality. In a first-person narrative, the reader follows Jimmy, a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl. He winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be.

In the second novella, "May–September," which won first place in Press 53’s Open Awards in 2010 for novellas, a young writer is hired by a much-older woman over the summer to help blog her memoirs for her grandchildren. An unlikely friendship, and more, follows, as Michalski examines one of the last cultural taboos of our age: May–December romances.

From Here[]

This story collection will be released by Aqueous Books in November 2013 and includes stories published in storySouth, Gargoyle, Baltimore Review, The MacGuffin, 42 opus,and others.

Close Encounters[]

This debut story collection was released in June 2007 by the now-defunct So New Press Necessary Fiction, its online magazine, is still ongoing, edited by American author Steve Himmer.

Notes[]

  1. ^ http://blacklawrence.homestead.com/jenmichalski.html [author page at Black Lawrence Press],
  2. ^ "The Summer She Was Under Water". December 2017.
  3. ^ http://www.dzancbooks.org/could-you-be-with-her-now/ Archived 2014-02-15 at the Wayback Machine [author page at Dzanc Books]
  4. ^ http://www.aqueousbooks.com/author_pages/31_michalski.htm [author page at Aqueous Books]
  5. ^ http://www.bookslut.com/features/1002/sonewmedia.htm [Crispin, Jessa. (2006) "Bookpunks: So New Media and their very serious stapler," Bookslut]
  6. ^ http://www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=news&newsid=47 [book page at CityLit Press]
  7. ^ http://www.chapbook-genius.com/2010/09/jen-michalski.html Archived 2012-05-08 at the Wayback Machine [author page at Publishing Genius]
  8. ^ http://510readings.blogspot.com [510 Readings website]
  9. ^ http://startsherereadingseries.blogspot.com/[Starts Here! website]

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