wes jamison
I’m a queer Chicago writer. My work is generally lyric, vulgar at times, and essayistic. I write about the body, things that fall out of the sky, and millennial abjection—particularly the uncomfortable relationship between the body and the internet.
Mostly, I teach. Mostly. My students and I shine when we workshop or we discuss Rankine’s Citizen, Carson’s Plainwater, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Larsen’s Passing. We love giggling about Puritans, and we’re really rigorous in our studies of graphic narratives x culture.
You can read my writing lots of places and you can even buy my work.
Education
2022: PhD Creative Writing
2013: MFA Creative Nonfiction, Columbia College Chicago
2010: BA English, Otterbein University
Awards
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
The Best American Essay
2022 Notable: “Mother,” Gigantic Sequins, vol. 13
2011 Notable: “The Secret Garden,” South Loop Review, vol. 13
Bridesmaids
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
