Jackson Bliss visits our galeria for a reading and conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

Jackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose and the mixed-race/hapa author of the short story collection Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), the forthcoming experimental memoir, Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and the speculative hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017). His short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, ZYZZYVA, Longreads, TriQuarterly, Columbia Journal, Kenyon Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Witness, Fiction, Santa Monica Review, Boston Review, Juked, Quarterly West, Arts & Letters, Joyland, and Multiethnic Literature in the US, among others. He is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University and lives in LA with his wife and their two fashionably dressed dogs. Follow him on Twitter and IG: @jacksonbliss.

 Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the forthcoming short story collection, If I Survive You, (FSG, September 2022) and the novel, Play Stone Kill Bird. He is the winner of The Paris Review’s 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in prose, and a 2020 ASME Award winner in fiction from the American Society of Magazine Editors, which was included in The Best American Magazine Writing 2020. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Zyzzyva, Passages North, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Salt Hill, and American Short Fiction, among many others. He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.