Kristopher Jansma

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards , the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review , Prairie Schooner , Story , and ZYZZYVA . His nonfiction has been published in the New York Times , The Sun, The Millions , Salon , Real Simple , The Believer , and...See more

Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards , the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has been published in the Alaska Quarterly Review , Prairie Schooner , Story , and ZYZZYVA . His nonfiction has been published in the New York Times , The Sun, The Millions , Salon , Real Simple , The Believer , and Electric Literature . Kristopher is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz. See less