Jen Michalski is author of the novel The Tide King, winner of the 2012 Big Moose Prize, the short story collections From Here and Close Encounters, and the novella collection Could You Be With Her Now. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, a co-host of The 510 Readings and the biannual Lit Show, and interviews writers at The Nervous Breakdown. She also is the editor of the anthology City Sages: Baltimore, which Baltimore Magazine called a "Best of Baltimore" in 2010. She lives in Baltimore, MD. She tweets at https://twitter.com/MichalskiJen.

Forthcoming


Preview

Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books, January 2013)



The Tide King (Black Lawrence Press, May 2013)

From Here (Aqueous Books, November 2013)


Publications

"Your Second Left Fielder," forthcoming, Barrelhouse
"Baltimore City Guide," Poets & Writers
"Go to War, Stanley Polensky," Works in Progress Journal
"Conjugation," forthcoming, Smokelong Quarterly 10th Anniversary Anthology (print)
"Vigilance," forthcoming, Word Riot 10th Anniversary Anthology (print)
"The Safest Place," Redux Literary Journal
"The Goodbye Party," The Literarian (magazine of the Center for Fiction, NY) (print) Pushcart nomination)
"God's Creatures," Spring 2012 Baltimore Review (print)
"Human Movements," Used Furniture Review
"Mongrels," Thousand Shades of Gray
"Comfort Foods," Spring 2012, Forge Journal (print)
"The Birthday Present," December 2011, Blue Lake Review
"But I'll Be Dead by Then," Baltimore Fishbowl
"Saint Joan," The Urbanite (print)
"From Here," storySouth (Pushcart nomination)
"Sweet Rotten," Cobalt Review
"Evolution," kill author
"Everyone Goes to the Movies," Newport Review
"I Feel Pretty," bluestem Magazine
"The Safest Place," Reed Magazine, volume 64, 2011 (print)
"Spooked," The Northville Review
"Outlook," NANO Fiction, issue 4.2 (print)
"Tender Is the Night," The Potomac
"Spiderman," Dark Sky Magazine
"Jack the Lion," Pear Noir! (print)
"Monkey Mountain," Fox Chase Review
"wildlife," wigleaf
"Dog Days," The Patapsco Review
"Conjugation," Smokelong Quarterly
The Substitute," The Baltimore Review (print)
"Excerpts from the New Adventures of Harriet the Spy," This Zine Will Change Your Life
"Boy Stuff," The New Yinzer
"Cagarse en la Leche," Necessary Fiction
“Algorithm,” Sententia (print)
“You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arrive,” Wilderness House Literary Review
“The Turn of Things,” Everyday Genius
“The Last Thing We Ever Needed,” Metazen
“The Bowling Story,” The New Yinzer
“Big Boy,” Emprise Review
“PE,” Necessary Fiction
“I Remember James Dean as Brought to You by Google and Other Haphazard Forms of Research,” Johnny America
“Neighbors,” PANK (print)
“We Don’t Normally Do This,” Ghoti
“Lillian in White,” 42opus
“Killing Rabbits,” Hamilton Stone Review
“The Mural,” MacGuffin (print)
“Acetylcholinesterase,” The Potomac
“Roots,” Smokelong Quarterly
“The Batman,” Lamination Colony
“The Charlie Brown Jazz Band,” decomP
“Jazz on the Radio,” elimae
“Little Helpers,” Hayden’s Ferry Review Blog, 5th Place, Holiday Contest
“Orion,” Gargoyle (print)
“Chicken Bones,” Smile Hon, You’re in Baltimore! (print)
“The Paleolithic Age,” The Potomac Review (print)
“Cross Sections” (Chapbook, Publishing Genius)
“Commencement Speech, Whitney Houston, East Southern University,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“The Movie Version of My Life,” Failbetter
“Sharp Objects,” The Potomac
“The Reading Room,” Pindeldyboz
“The Queen of Swords,” storySouth
“Blood,” Word Riot
“Houdini,” Summerset Review
“In Fetu,” Unlikely Stories 2.0
“I Can Get to California Before It’s Time for Dinner,” Avatar Review
“His Life Backward, Her Life Forward,” The Houston Review
“In the Waiting Line,” Bending Spoons (print)
“Truck,” Taj Mahal Review (print)
“Kingdom of Hearts,” Zygote in My Coffee
“Music Man,” Taj Mahal Review (print)
“Music Man,” Monkeybicycle
“Bitter Clean Dirt,” The Potomac
“The Assistant,” Swill Magazine (print)
“Slipping Through,” Fiction Warehouse
“The One-Up,” 13th Warrior Review
“The Situation,” Lily
“The Piano,” Fringe
“Bel-Air,” 10×10x10
“LA Women,” Gold Dust Magazine (print)
“Heroes of the Diamond,” LitVision
“Discount,” The Pedestal Magazine
“Swim,” 55 stories
“Chiquita,” Hobart
“Our Place in the World,” Thieves Jargon
“Vital Signs,” Conte Online
“Christmas in April,” Skive Magazine
“Truck,” Outsider Writers
“Sophomore Slump,” Outsider Writers
“The Slippery Slope,” Rokovoko
“The Disappearers,” Split Shot
"A Dog’s Life,” Apt
“Percy’s Pinup,” Subtletea
“The Storyteller,” The Harrow
"Comfort Foods," The Swamp
“But I’ll Be Dead by Then,” Scrivener’s Pen