Jamie Callan

Jamie Callan is author of three novels for young adults. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica 2002, The Missouri Review, Story Buzz Magazine, American Letters and Commentary, OntheBus, The Baffler, and Turnstile. She has received grants and fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Djerassi Foundation. She's won the first prize in the Writers Digest Competition for literary fiction twice, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and a Goldwyn Award for Screenwriting. Callan teaches fiction at Yale University, NYU, and Wesleyan Universty. She is also a Master Teaching Artist with the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and was recently rated No.81 in Best American Erotica's Readers Choice Top 100 erotica writers from the last 10 years.

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