Jen Michalski is the author of the novels The Tide King (Black Lawrence Press, 2013; winner of the Big Moose Prize) and The Summer She Was Under Water (Queens Ferry Press, 2016); of two collections of fiction, Close Encounters (So New, 2007) and From Here (Aqueous Books, 2014), and a couplet of novellas Could You Be with Her now (Dzanc Books, 2013). She also edited the anthology City Sages: Baltimore in 2010. She is the founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww, hosts the monthly reading series Starts Here! in Baltimore, and interviews writers at The Nervous Breakdown.
