wes jamison
I’m a queer Chicago writer. I don’t use question marks. My work is generally lyric with touches of vulgarity and autotheory. I explore themes such as the body, the internet, identity, and language (semiotics, desire).
Explore my essays and other writing @ Selected Writings.
Find my meatier work @ Books.
I’m also a teacher. My students and I shine when we workshop creative writing or we discuss psychoanalysis or texts like Rankine’s Citizen or Carson’s Plainwater. I delight in introducing students to lyric essays and graphic narratives.
Peruse my Media page for my thoughts on being a writer and a few good write-ups about me and my work.
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“Of course, now we know, we do—we know how easy it is to be exactly someone else.”
C.V.
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2022: PhD Creative Writing
2013: MFA Creative Nonfiction, Columbia College Chicago
2010: BA English, Otterbein University
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2021: Quill Prose Award, selected by Kazim Ali, Red Hen Press
2021: Anderson Award in Medieval Studies
2016: Chapbook Contest, selected by Julie Carr, Essay Press
2011: Essay Contest Winner, South Loop Review
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2022 Notable: “Mother,” Gigantic Sequins, vol. 13
2011 Notable: “The Secret Garden,” South Loop Review, vol. 13
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2025: Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award longlist, The Florida Review
2020: Book Award longlist, Tarpaulin Sky Press
2017: Pushcart Prize nomination, cahoodaloodaling
2017: Chapbook Contest finalist, Gambling the Aisle
2016: Open Prose Contest finalist, selected by Maggie Nelson, 1913: A Journal of Forms
2016: Sixth-Ever Contest finalist, The Cupboard Pamphlet
2015: Lamar York Prize finalist, Chatahoochee Review
2014: First Book Prize finalist, selected by Claudia Rankine, 1913: A Journal of Forms