Kristopher Jansma

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Our Narrow Hiding Places , Why We Came to the City , and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards . He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction, distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2016 , has been published in The Sun , Alaska Quarterly Review , Prairie Schooner , Story , ZYZZYVA , and elsewhere. Kristopher is an...See more

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Our Narrow Hiding Places , Why We Came to the City , and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards . He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction, distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2016 , has been published in The Sun , Alaska Quarterly Review , Prairie Schooner , Story , ZYZZYVA , and elsewhere. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz College. See less