Jason Ferris is a fiction writer and essayist from Maryland’s inner shores. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he won the Truman Capote Fellowship and the Jeffrey and Kimberly Chapman Writing Fellowship. His work has been further supported by the Kenyon Review’s Peter Taylor Fellowship and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, where he won a 2024-2025 fiction fellowship as well as a second-year writing fellowship in 2025 judged by Rebecca Makkai. His work was named a finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2025 Perkoff Prize and the 2021 Carve Magazine Prose and Poetry Contest. It was also nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. As an undergraduate at Susquehanna University, he won the 2021 Gary and Elizabeth Fincke Outstanding Senior Portfolio Prize as well as the 2021 Erick Kirkland Memorial Award for Creative Nonfiction. Published in Carve Magazine, RiverCraft, and Essay Magazine, he now lives in Denver, where he’s working on a Ph.D. in creative writing focused on queer literature as well as the histories of the short story and essay.
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