photo: @sweetfacedfriends

Upcoming Classes:

• "Intro to Writing the Short Story": January 13th - March 3rd at the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop (In-person, Denver, CO)
• "The Planchette Shudders - Writing the Ghost Story": January 14th - February 4th at the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop (In-person, Denver, CO)
• "One Story Lecture Series" - April 18th via One Story (Online).

​​Contact

If you're looking to connect, feel free to reach out to [email protected].

​You can also find him on Twitter @chrisvanjonack, on Letterboxd, and on Goodreads.

Bio

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 he 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, and his novel, Still Dead, is expected in 2028.

He is represented by Ian Bonaparte at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, and by Will Watkins and Josie Freedman at the Creative Artists Agency. 

(Free & Accessible) Selected Works

• ​Invent Everything, Carve Magazine​
• ​What We Look Like Together, CRAFT Literary​​
• Thunderstorm Facts, HAD
• World of Khaki, DIAGRAM​
• Harrison Changes, Rejoinder