Jerico Lenk

Education

• MFA, Creative Writing, University of Washington, 2022
• B.A. , English with Creative Writing Concentration, University of South Florida, 2019
• B.A. , History, University of South Florida, 2019

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise

• Creative Writing - Poetry, Prose, Hybrid
• Gender and Civic Queerness in Antiquity
• Victorian Literature and Counterculture
• Metamodernism and Adaptation / Transformative Literature

Selected Publications

• "ekphora (or, telemachus dreams of funerals)" - F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest
• "the night’s last train to paris, two hours delayed" · Twyckenham Notes, Issue 16, Summer
• "achilles, singing" · Death Rattle Oroboro Lit Penrose Poetry Prize
• "Reprise: Persephone Before the Underworld." · F(r)iction Spring Creative Nonfiction Contest
• "How We See." · Columbia Journal Online
• "The Mourning Club." · F(r)iction No. 17, Winter

Research Projects

• Lenk, Jerico. Rearranging the Room: An Adaptation of Jane Eyre with Afterword, 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts critical thesis.

• Lenk, Jerico. happy russians (& other fairy tales), 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts creative thesis.

Books

• The Missing (Month 9 Books 2017) : View Book

Selected Presentations

• Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, Tag Yourself: Pathetic Aesthetics & Writing Image, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University (2021)

Accolades

• Winner of the F(r)iction Spring Creative Nonfiction Contest, 2022
• Winner of the F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest, 2022
• Palette Poetry Emerging Poet Long List, 2021
• Winner of the Columbia Journal Spring Contest, 2021
• AWP Intro Journals Award Nominee, 2020
• Best American Short Stories Nominee, 2020
• Best New Poets Nominee, 2020
• Gulf Coast Association for Creative Writing Teachers Nominee, 2020
• Frontier OPEN Long List, 2020
• First Pages Prize Short List, 2020
• Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2019
• Walter Dean Myers Award Nominee, 2018

Interests

• Fog in the trees somewhere outside Bellingham, 90s nostalgia and true crime podcasts, fanfiction, watching scary movies with his partner and their son who has four legs because he's actually a cat, that one Hozier lyric about felling trees and pyres of enemies.

Fun Facts

• Can spin fire and fight with swords on stage