Chris Vanjonack

Chris Vanjonack is a writer and educator from Fort Collins, Colorado. A recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, his fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in One Story, Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. In addition to Lighthouse Writers Workshop, he has previously taught creative writing at the Denver School of the Arts, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The Ohio State University. His short story collection, Out of Body, is forthcoming from William Morrow in 2026. Read his work at chrisvanjonack.com.