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Jess Bowers

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York, PA, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

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Jess Bowers lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she works as an Associate Professor of English at Maryville University.

Her short fiction has appeared in The Portland Review, cream city review, Redivider, StoryQuarterly, The Indiana Review, Zone 3, Oyez Review, and other journals. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Award, and other honors. She won Laurel Review‘s Midwest Short Fiction Prize and the Winter Anthology Prize.

Bowers holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Goucher College, an M.A. in the same from Hollins University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri, where she studied fiction writing, film, and 19th-century literature and visual culture.

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The Year of the Horses

by Courtney Maum (Goodreads Author)

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My Wonderful World of Slapstick

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Out There in the Dark

by Katharine Coldiron (Goodreads Author)

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