Faculty Profile
Jess Fenn
Instructor
242 Marshall Hall
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About
JR Fenn is a multi-genre writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Georgia Review, Witness, Split Lip, and more. Her fiction chapbook, Tiny Vessels, won The 2024 Masters Review Chapbook Open and is now available from B&N, Bookshop, etc. Recognitions include the New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction, the Robert Colley Prize for Fiction, the Gulf Coast Prize for Nonfiction, Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominations, and appearances in the Bath, Bristol, and Oxford Award Anthologies. Her writing has been supported by Ucross, Orion Environmental Writers' Workshop, Writing by Writers, and the Key West Literary Seminar, among other places.
At ESF, Fenn teaches environmental writing, research and writing in the humanities, podcasting, and fiction. In addition to her MFA in Fiction from Syracuse University, she holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a Master's in Teaching from Hollins University. Before coming to ESF, she taught at SUNY Geneseo and Birkbeck College, University of London. Her teaching and research interests include digital storytelling, critical pedagogy, public presentation, and short forms.
Publications
Books
Fenn, JR. 2026. Tiny Vessels. Winner of The Masters Review Chapbook Open. Red Mare Press.
Stories
Fenn, JR. 2027. "Everything Light Rises Over the Valley." The Georgia Review. (forthcoming)
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Dwelling." Off Assignment. (forthcoming)
Fenn, JR. 2026. "What the Botanist Saw." Orion's Belt. (forthcoming)
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Remnant." Witness.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Double Take." The Oxford Flash Fiction Award Anthology.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Gelato." The Linden Review.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Terlingua Ranch." Strange Hymnal.
Fenn, JR. 2006. "Under the Catclaw Bush." Hippocampus.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Hauling Water." Painted Pebble Lit Mag.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "The Trilobites Would Like a Word." Painted Pebble Lit Mag.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Moose Days." Wild Greens.
Fenn, JR. 2026. "Beach Day Escape." In Short.
Fenn, JR. 2025. "The Last Cinematographer in Space." Winner, Second Place, Flash 405: Normal Contest. Exposition Review.
Fenn, JR. 2025. “Catch and Release.” Winner of the 2025 Robert Colley Prize for Fiction. Stone Canoe 19.
Fenn, JR. 2025. “Memory Box.” Winner of the 59th Annual Millennium Award for Flash Fiction. Also appears in The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 17. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
Fenn, JR. 2025. “Cassandra.” Split Lip Magazine. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
Fenn, JR. 2025. "Keep the Crowd Moving." The Fourth River: Tributaries.
Fenn, JR. 2025. “The Happy Son.” Gigantic Sequins 16.
Fenn, JR. 2025. “Wind Horse.” Centaur.
Fenn, JR. 2025. “Sockeye.” Complete Sentence. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
Fenn, JR. 2024. “The Cherry Tree.” Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology Volume 9.
Fenn, JR. 2024. “The Matchbox.” 100 Word Story.
Fenn, JR. 2024. “The Happy Son.” Sunspot Literary. Winner of the 2024 Solar Flare Award.
Fenn, JR. 2024. “Green Walls Lit in the Night.” Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature - Cities.
Fenn, JR. 2019. “All We Remember Will Be Forgotten.” Boston Review: Allies.
Fenn, JR. 2017. “Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body.” Boston Review: Global Dystopias.
Fenn, JR. 2016. “Public Schools Resolution No. 2153.” Flash Fiction Magazine, reprinted in Thirty Authors, Thirty Stories.
Fenn, JR. 2016. “The Interstate.” Stone Canoe Issue 10, reprinted in Short Reads (2025).
Fenn, JR. 2014. “Reasons for the Flood.” DIAGRAM.
Fenn, JR. 2014. “Fumigation Day.” SmokeLong Quarterly.
Fenn, JR. 2014. “Where We Went and What We Did There.” Gulf Coast Winter/Spring 2014.
Fenn, JR. 2013. “After the Natatorium.” Versal Literary & Arts Journal, reprinted at Sudden Prose.
Fenn, JR. "Terlingua." Camroc Press Review.
Fenn, JR. 2012. "Transfer." Eunoia Review.
Fenn, JR. 2012. “Altogether.” PANK.