Jeremy Griffin is the author of the short fiction collections A Last Resort For Desperate People: Stories and a Novella, from Stephen F. Austin Press; Oceanography, winner of the 2018 Orison Books Fiction Prize, selected by Lan Samantha Chang; and Scream Queen, winner of the 2023 Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in such publications as the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Hopkins Review, the Iowa Review, and Oxford American.
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Born in Fargo, ND, he grew up in Ruston, LA. He received his BA in Philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Simpson College in Indianola, IA, and father to a wonderful son.