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Kristopher Jansma

Kristopher Jansma
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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.


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Series

Books:

Our Narrow Hiding Places, September 2025
Paperback
Our Narrow Hiding Places, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Unchangeable Spots Of Leopards, April 2013
Hardcover