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Jen Knox
An Ohio-born writer, Jen Knox's fiction has been featured in over seventy online and print publications. Some of her recent work can be found inThe Adirondack Review, Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, Chicago Quarterly Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Fiction Southeast, MJI News, The Saturday Evening... show more
An Ohio-born writer, Jen Knox's fiction has been featured in over seventy online and print publications. Some of her recent work can be found inThe Adirondack Review, Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, Chicago Quarterly Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Fiction Southeast, MJI News, The Saturday Evening Post, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and Sequestrum, among others. She is a Writing Coach and educator in San Antonio. She directs Gemini Ink's Writers in Communities program, which offers free writing workshops in homeless shelters, detention centers, and other community settings. 
 
Jen earned her BA in English from Otterbein and her MFA from Bennington. She is the author of After the Gazebo (NYC, New York: Rain Mountain Press), and she recently completed a collection of short eco-fiction, The Glass City, which won the 2016 Prize Americana for Prose and is forthcoming from Hollywood Books International. An excerpt of The Glass City, "Our Sky, the Ocean" earned finalist status in the 2016 Calvino Prize from The University of Louisville.  Contact Jen about writing, coaching, or speaking engagements below.



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catpdx
catpdx rated it 14 years ago
Won in a Goodreads giveaway - new writer for me!
Genosha is for lovers
Genosha is for lovers rated it 15 years ago
I hate memoirs. The reason I hate memoirs is because they are a self-indulgent pieces of shit written by attention whores. Poor Ms. Knox didn't know that I felt this way when she offered me a copy of her book so kudos to her for writing a good enough book to checkmate my cynicism.Knox gives a fran...
Bitsy Bling Books
Bitsy Bling Books rated it 15 years ago
Finally, a memoir that isn’t wholly depressing or full of purple prose glorifying cozy memories. I tend to shy away from memoirs because of reminiscent qualities or ‘what I’ve learned’ advice and reflections. This is a poignant account of one girl’s journey from childhood to adulthood. The story ...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 15 years ago
Jen Knox pulls no punches with her gritty, honest memoir, "Musical Chairs." From the first page, she tells her story of self-medication, mental illness and family problems in evocative prose reflective of her experiences.Knox is unafraid and unashamed of discussing the mistakes she makes after runn...
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Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 15 years ago
Jen kindly sent me a copy of this book to review, and I zipped through it in a couple of days. The story begins in an AA meeting, and it reads rather like a series of episodes told in front of an AA audience. I also have an addictive/compulsive personality, so I'm sympathetic; the AA sequences in In...
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