About the Author
JR Fenn
JR Fenn’s work has appeared in many places, including Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, and The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology. She’s a graduate of the MFA program at Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize in Fiction. Other recognitions include the Gulf Coast Prize for Nonfiction, the 59th Annual New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction, and Stone Canoe’s Robert Colley Prize for Fiction. She teaches at SUNY ESF and lives in Western New York with her family.
Tiny Vessels
JR Fenn’s Tiny Vessels contain expansive truths. Selected by Rita Bullwinkel as the winner of The Masters Review’s 2024 Chapbook Open, the seventeen small fictions in Tiny Vessels hurtle backward and forward in time and space, all contemplating what it means to be human, to be alive and exist in our history, in our future. “To read these seventeen gem-like dispatches from a dreamlike world,” writes George Saunders, “is to receive a lovely condensed version of what life on earth is like, and to be blessed with a feeling full of fondness and of longing for a kinder, more natural world.”