About
Jac Jemc lives in Chicago where she makes monsters and writes fiction and poetry. Her first novel, My Only Wife, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in April 2012 and a chapbook of stories, This Stranger She’d Invited In, sold out at Greying Ghost Press in March 2011 . Jac’s writing has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, finished 2nd place in the Marginalia College Contest and placed as a finalist for the Rose Metal Press Chapbook Contest and Sentence Firewheel Chapbook Contest. Her story “Women in Wells” was featured in the 2010 Best of the Web. Jac received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has completed residencies at Ragdale and the Vermont Studio Center. She is poetry editor at decomP and member of the editorial team at Tarpaulin Sky. She has served as a guest editor of Little White Poetry Journal and and Hobart Web, and worked as a reader at Our Stories and The Means. In 2012 she was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Professional Development Grant.
For links to her writing, see the “Recent Work” links.
If you’d like to email her, go right ahead: jacjemc@gmail.com
Hi Jac Jemc,
I was wondering if you’d be into putting a top ten list together of your favorite novellas and a few lines, if you like, about each. I’ve reached out to a bunch of writers, editors, etc. Among others, Scott Esposito, Molly Gaudry, Cooper Renner, Adam Robinson, Peter Selgin, Leni Zumas, have agreed to participate. Once I get everyone’s back, I’ll post them on my blog along with links to everyone’s respective websites.
Thanks,
John
Nice site (blog?). I do get confused with the terms having “grown-up” with paper and pen. But I love this. I’m envious but hey, such is life.
My “comment” here is meant merely as a compliment to you on this site, whch I stumbled across while wandering around “deComp”.
A’keith Walters
Hey Jac I just read the review and excerpts of A Heaven Gone on HTMLGiant, and I was blown away! BUT JA doesn’t have it on the roster for the 2010 chapbooks… What gives? Do I have to wait until 2011 to get my eyes on it?
Best,
Mink
Thanks, Mink. It was actually a 2009 chapbook, but it’ll be in the anthology that’s coming out soon, so you can read the full text there.
Stumbled upon your blog. It smells like tin foil. I also like your last name, if I subscribe to your blog, I’m hoping I will have a cooler last name. Like when you hang out with popular kids, you are popular. It works like that, right?
Dear Ms. Jemc, poetry editor:
I recently sumitted my poetry to decomP magazinE, and failed to mention my published appearance. I was published in the summer issue of “Eudaimonia Poetry Review.” You can, also find me @ seasteprare@live.com. I hope, if I’m selected as a contributor, that this will be mentioned in my bio.
Thanks,again for your time and consideration.
–Russ Stephens
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