Jen Michalski
| Jen Michalski | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | St. Mary's College of Maryland, Towson University |
| Genre | Novels |
Jen Michalski is an American writer of fiction. Her debut novel, The Tide King, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2013 (2012 winner of BLP's Big Moose Prize). and her second novel, The Summer She Was Under Water, was published by Queens Ferry Press in 2016. Her collection of novellas Could You Be With Her Now was published in 2013 by Dzanc Books, and she also has published two collections of fiction, From Here (Aqueous Books, forthcoming, 2013) and Close Encounters (So New, 2007).
She edited the book City Sages: Baltimore (CityLit Press, 2010), an anthology of Baltimore writers past and present, and published a chapbook, Cross Sections, with Publishing Genius Press in 2008.
Her fiction has been published in journals such as The Collagist, Blue Lake Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, failbetter, storysouth, The Potomac Review, The Literarian (The Center for Fiction), Barrelhouse, Gargoyle, 42 opus, and others. Michalski is actively involved in the literary community, running the online literary quarterly jmww since 2004 and cohosting the monthly fiction reading series, The 510 Readings, in Baltimore from 2007-2014 with writer Michael Kimball and currently hosting the monthly fiction reading series Starts Here!,.
She received her BA in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1994 and an MS Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. She resides in Baltimore.
The Summer She Was Under Water recently was published in August 2016 (Queens Ferry Press).
The Tide King published in May 2013 (Black Lawrence Press). The basic plot involves Stanley Polensky and Calvin Johnson, two soldiers who serve in Germany during World War II. Calvin, near death after being shelled, is given a bewitched herb by Stanley but then left for dead. Each soldier returns from the war and years pass. Calvin, discovering that he cannot age and cannot die, searches for Stanley to get answers. Also include is the back story of the herb, including the introduction of Ela, a 9-year-old Polish peasant girl who ingested the herb in the late 18th century and still lives physically, as a young girl, in the 20th century. She and Calvin join forces to find a cure for the herb.
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