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Denver, Colorado, The United States

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Chris Vanjonack is a writer and educator from Denver, Colorado. A recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, his fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in One Story, Book of the Month Club's Volume 0, Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, CRAFT Literary, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and at the Denver School of the Arts.

His debut short story collection, Out of Body, is forthcoming from William Morrow in September 2026. ...more

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Out of Body: Stories

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Gravity’s Rainbow

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

by George Saunders

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