JR Fenn is from the Central Appalachians. She’s made her home in coastal Alaska, the dry seas of the Big Bend in Texas, the cityscapes of London, Bangkok, Yangon, and Manhattan, and the southwestern peninsula of the United Kingdom.

She is the author of Tiny Vessels, chosen by Rita Bullwinkel for the Masters Review Chapbook Open, forthcoming from Red Mare Press in February 2026. She won the 59th Annual New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction and the 2025 Robert Colley Award from Stone Canoe. Her work has appeared in many places, including Boston Review, Gulf Coast (Winner of the Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction), DIAGRAM, Split Lip, 100 Word Story, The Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, among others.

JR is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize in Fiction. She also holds a PhD from Columbia University. She teaches Fiction and Environmental Writing at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and lives in Western New York with her husband, their two children, and of course the family’s two border collies and four guinea pigs.