Chris Vanjonack

Chris Vanjonack is a writer and educator from Fort Collins, Colorado. A recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, his fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in One Story, the Book of the Month Club's Volume 0, Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, Shenandoah, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has taught creative writing at The Denver School of the Arts as a guest artist, and at The Ohio State University as a Post-MFA Scholar. His debut short story collection, Out of Body, is forthcoming from William Morrow in 2026.