Jen Fawkes
Writer, Simulacrum, Crone
Tales the Devil Told Me
Finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
"By turns witty and dark, extravagant and savage."
– Locus
"What a clever, mercurial, metaphorical, topsy-turvy book of imaginings Tales the Devil Told Me is. By subverting our notions of notorious villains, Jen Fawkes has conjured a magic talking mirror whose words reveal our collective humanity and vulnerability. This is a marvel of storytelling filled with delicious surprises."
—Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra
"Another remarkable book from one of our most talented short fiction writers."
– Largehearted Boy
ABOUT JEN
Jen Fawkes's debut book, Mannequin and Wife (LSU Press) was a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, won two 2020 Foreword INDIES (Gold in Short Stories), and was named one of Largehearted Boy’s Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020. Her second book, Tales the Devil Told Me (Press 53), won the 2021 Foreword INDIES Silver medal in Short Stories and is a current finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Her work has appeared in One Story, Lit Hub, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Best Small Fictions 2020, and many others, and has won numerous fiction prizes, from The Pinch, Salamander, Washington Square Review, and others. The recipient of the 2021 Porter Fund Literary Prize, she lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, with her husband and two cats named Tessio and Clemenza.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
SHORT FICTION
"Sometimes, They Kill Each Other" (excerpt)
Lit Hub
Sept 2020
The Rumpus
August 2020
“We Can Learn from the Sawhorse”
Atticus Review
fall 2019
storySouth
fall 2019
Pidgeonholes
fall 2019
Jellyfish Review
fall 2019
SFWP Quarterly
summer 2019
Sequestrum
spring 2018
Jersey Devil Press
fall 2017
Joyland
spring 2015
Amazon’s Day One
fall 2014
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One Story
winter 2013/14
Salamander
winter 2013/14
The Iowa Review
fall 2013
Michigan Quarterly Review
winter 2013
“Demerol, Demerol, Benzedrine, Schnaps”
The Massachusetts Review
fall 2012
aa
"Contributor Spotlight: Jen Fawkes"
Sequestrum
Spring 2018
Interview with Jen Fawkes
Speaking of Marvels
October 2020
Mini-Interview with Jen Fawkes
tommydeanwriter
August 2020
Interview with Jen Fawkes
Flash Monsters!!!
September 2020
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
November 2020
NONFICTION
Research Notes: How to Write Mannequin and Wife"
Necessary Fiction
March 2021
"Jen Fawkes's Playlist for Mannequin and Wife"
Largehearted Boy
November 2020
"What to Read When You Suspect That Time Is Not a Line"
The Rumpus
August 2020
Miracle Monocle
spring 2017
INTERVIEWS
BOOK REVIEWS
Machines of Another Era by Bess Winter
Necessary Fiction
January 2021
Necessary Fiction
May 2021
"Dangerous Women: a Conversation
with Jen Fawkes"
VIDA Review
September 2020
"Release the Book: Jen Fawkes"
Fear No Lit
October 2020
"Acknowledging the Power of the Margins: Jen Fawkes on Mannequin and Wife"
Southern Review of Books
September 2020
"Strangeness in the Proportion: a Q & A with Jen Fawkes"
Arkansas Times
October 2020