Jen Michalski

Jen Michalski was voted one of the best authors in Maryland by CBS News, one of "50 Women to Watch" by The Baltimore Sun, and "Best Writer" by Baltimore Magazine (Best of Baltimore issue, 2013). She is the author of the novels YOU'LL BE FINE (NineStar Press, 2021), THE SUMMER SHE WAS UNDER WATER (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), and THE TIDE KING (Black Lawrence Press, 2013; winner of the Big Moose Prize), three collections of fiction, THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (forthcoming, Braddock Avenue Books), FROM HERE (Aqueous Books, 2014), and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (So New, 2007), and and a collection of novellas, COULD YOU BE WITH HER NOW (Dzanc Books, 2013). She also edited the anthology CITY SAGES: BALTIMORE, which Baltimore Magazine called "Best of Baltimore" in 2010. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Literary Hub, Psychology Today, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more. She is the founding editor of the online literary weekly jmww and now lives in Southern California