About

Chris Vanjonack is an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an editorial assistant for Ninth Letter, and an occasional contributor to Denver Westword. ​He's also a former language arts teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado, where he co-founded Slamogadro, and wrote + performed in three wildly unprofessional theater productions for the Fort Collins Fringe Festival.

He is a recipient of the 2020-2021 AWP Intro Journals Award, and his fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in One Story, Barrelhouse, Diagram, The Rumpus, Hobart, CRAFT Literary, Carve Magazine, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.

Selected Works

• Phases, One Story
• Thunderstorm Facts, Hobart
• Elizabeth Kaplan's Best Day Ever, Quarterly West
• What We Look Like Together, CRAFT Literary
• Monkey Men, The Rumpus
• A Survey of the Landscape, Ninth Letter
• Invent Everything, Carve Magazine
• Rebooting How I Met Your Mother for the 2020-2021 Network TV Season, No Contact

photo by: @sweetfacedfriends

​​Contact

If you're looking to connect, feel free to send electronic mail across time and space to chrisvanjonack@gmail.com.

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

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