Everlast Anthology - Featuring Jen Ross

Author

I loved writing since grade school, but thought it would be impossible to make a living writing fiction. So I studied journalism, the next-best thing. After a long and fruitful career in media and with the UN, I finally dared to chase my dream, taking more than a year off to passionately hash out my first novel, a contemporary feminist young adult collection of interconnecting short stories from around the world, a number of which have already been published in literary magazines, along with my poetry:

My publications:

Azahares Literary Magazine 2024 cover. two white flowers

My poem “Los sentidos de mi patria chilena” appears in Azahares Literary Magazine. , 2024. Pp. 46-47.

A shooting star shoots across a star-filled night sky.

My two poems by Jen Ross Laguna, appear in Aloka Magazine, 13 February 2024.

Three of my hybrid prose poems/flash fiction pieces were published as a suite, Fragments of my father, in Defenestrationism, December 2023.

A mountain is visible in the distance from under a yellow colonial archway with a cobblestone street below. Cover page of the Latin American Literature Review

My short story, Macho Mama, appears in the Latin American Literary Review, Vol. 50, Issue 101, October 2023.

fall coloured trees magazine cover for Woods Reader. Fall 2023.

My poem, Seasonal flow, appears in the Woods Reader, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Fall 2023.

LatineLit globe magazine logo and cover with the tagline "Celebrating our words, telling our stories"

My short story, Toy soldiers, appears in LatineLit, Summer 2023.

Cover mslexia magazine

My short story, Before she can begin, appears in Mslexia Magazine, Issue 98. June 2023.

Cover Arlijo Issue 170

My short story, Pageant Queen, appears in the Arlington Literary Journal, Issue 170. January 2023.

Cover Isele Magazine

My short story, Bloody shame, appears in Isele Magazine, January 2023.

The Last Stanza Poetry Journal, issue 11 cover

My poem, The penny pinchers, appears in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 11. January 2023.

A woman walks through a park with a giant rock seemingly hovering above her. Cover page for descant Vol. 61

My poem, Reluctant bride, appears in descant, Vol. 61. 2022.

The Good Arab? by Dmitry Borshch - cover of the other side of hope literary magazine's Volume 2, issue 2, Winter 2022.

My poem, Not quite exile, appears in the other side of hope, Vol 2. Issue 2. Winter 2022.

My short story, Correction, appears in the Evocations Review, Issue 3.2. Fall 2022.

My short story, Wed, appears in the Global Youth Review, Issue IV. Summer 2022. Pp. 32-45.

My poem, The Mongolian Patch, appears in Better Than Starbucks. August 2022.

My flash fiction story, Leaving Aleppo, appears in The Pine Cone Review, Issue 4. June 2022.

Cover image of the Everlast anthology - features a man and woman facing one another, inverted, with different worlds behind each of their faces.

My novellette, The Chasquis, a time travel romance set in Incan Peru, was published in the Everlast anthology by Dragon Soul Press. March 2022.

Culture & Identity poetry anthology cover page

Three of my poems were published in the Culture & Identity anthology, Volume 1. The Poet Magazine. February 2022.

 

My awards or recognitions:

  • My poem “A New World Order” won the Marvin E. Williams Literary Prize by The Caribbean Writer and will be published in its Volume 38 edition in December 2024.
  • Three of my creative non-fiction/poetry hybrid pieces published as the “Fragments of my father” suite were finalists in the Defenestrationism Flash Suite contest 2024, and selected through voting as a “Fan Favorite”.
  • My short story, “Silent Protest” received an Honourable Mention in the International Human Rights Art Festival Creators of Justice 2022 Award.
  • My poem, “The things Dad left behind” was longlisted for the Plough 2022 Poetry Prize.
  • My short story, “The Chasquis” received an Honourable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest for the 2nd quarter 2022.
  • My unpublished debut novel, Girls Engaged, was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition 2017.
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