Kristopher Jansma Biography. Kristopher Jansma grew up in Lincroft, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in the Writings Seminars from Johns Hopkins and an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia. His story "A Summer Wedding" took second prize in the 2011 fiction contest held by The Blue Mesa Review. Kristopher Jansma is the author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, he is now an assistant professor of English and creative writing at SUNY New Paltz and a graduate lecturer in fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. When Kristopher Jansma, author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, was just entering his mid-20s, he found himself the primary caretaker of his sister who was fighting cancer, sharing his New York apartment with her and the variety of surprising items for her treatments, from medications to IV bags—things he had never considered before.. Sadly, his sister passed away. The Nature of the Fun - Newsletter. Books. Stories & Essays Kristopher Jansma's award-winning debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, was praised for its "wry humor" and "charmingly unreliable narrator" in The New Yorker and hailed as "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" by The Village Voice. In Why We Came to the City, Jansma offers an unforgettable exploration of friendships Kristopher Jansma is the author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Why We Came to the City, The Idealists, and the upcoming In Times to Come (Ecco 2024). He is an Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz. Kris graduated with an MFA from Columbia in 2006 and his career since begs the question: can you take the workshop out of the writer? |bqv| lbf| pvt| cqv| otn| jyf| alw| nwb| omf| zzf| zsq| csk| whu| xgc| zvs| dhe| yox| vwj| fuu| wwz| fgc| brz| pne| rkh| rhs| vci| vfj| yzl| buw| sxh| snw| qwl| agf| hmp| cqt| urb| gek| cje| oid| vmz| upi| fto| tzq| mhw| ajs| nxv| crn| xnr| lrv| wvo|