Janalyn Guo
Photo by Emerson Arehart
Bio
Janalyn Guo lives in Salt Lake City. She is the author of the short story collection Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins published by Subito Press, and her work has appeared in Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, the Rupture, Tusculum Review, Heavy Feather Review, Bat City Review, and other places. She has received fellowships from Brown University, where she completed her MFA, and the MacDowell Colony.
I am so grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts and to the panel of readers for your support. I am still in disbelief that I am among this year’s group of fellows. For nearly a decade, I have been writing around various full-time jobs, spending early mornings and late nights at coffee shops. I’ve relished these pockets of time, crafting short stories in bursts. Since starting work on a new novel, I’ve been craving more concentrated time to think and write. This NEA grant has come at the perfect moment. I am truly invigorated by this recognition and feel encouraged to make more room than I ever have for writing. Thank you for your interest in these strange stories of mine.