Jennifer Natalya Fink


Jennifer Natalya Fink is an American author working in experimental feminist and queer fiction. She is best known for her novels Burn, V, and The Mikvah Queen, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Her novel, Bhopal Dance, won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize in 2017.

Life

Fink holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University and an MFA in Performance from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago.
She teaches creative writing at Georgetown University.
She is also the founder and director of The Gorilla Press, a non-profit organization that promotes children's literacy through bookmaking workshops.
In 2009, she was the US judge for the Caine Prize for African Literature.

Awards

Won
  • FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Winner for Bhopal Dance, 2017
  • Billy Heekin Arts Award, Winner for Out on Fire, Stonewall Foundation, 2002
  • Dana Award, Winner for The Mikvah Queen, 1997.Georgetown Review Fiction Award, Winner for “World Records,” 1996Writer’s Digest Fiction Award, Second Place Winner for “Vertebrae,” 1996
  • Story Magazine Naked Fiction Contest, Second Place Winner for “Spit Bugs,” 1996Story Magazine Short Short Fiction Contest, Second Place Winner for “Slipping,” 1996
Finalist/Nominations

Works

Fiction
Criticism
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