Contact: jenmurvin@gmail.com

Jennifer Murvin is a writer, professor, and owner of the independent bookstore Pagination Bookshop. Her chapbook She Says is available now from Small Harbor Publishing, and her collection Real California Living is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in 2025. Her essays, stories, and graphic narrative have appeared in Fourth Genre (Winner of the 2024 Multimedia Essay Prize), CRAFT, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Longleaf Review, the anthology And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press), River Styx, The Southampton Review, The Pinch, Anomaly, december magazine, DIAGRAM, The Florida Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Indiana Review, CutBank, Post Road, American Short Fiction (2015 - Winner of the American Short(er) Ficton Contest, judged by Stuart Dybek), Phoebe, The Sun, Mid-American Review, Midwestern Gothic, Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Baltimore Review, Huizache, and other literary journals. Jen Murvin has also published several comic books for children, including the series Chickasaw Adventures, Stories of the Saints, and McGraw-Hill's World History Ink. 

Jen is an Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University (2009-present), where she teaches creative writing in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, form and theory of prose, literary publication, and literature. She is also a faculty member at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. She teaches for the nonprofit community writing workshop River Pretty Writers Retreat held twice annually in Tecumseh, Missouri. Jen holds an MA in English from Missouri State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Jennifer Murvin is available as a visiting writer for readings, craft talks, and workshops. Her genres include fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narrative. She has been a visiting writer to several universities, high school arts programs, and community writing groups/arts organizations.