Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. She is the author of We Arrive Uninvited, which won the Steel Toe Books Award, and The Glass City, which won the Press Americana Prize for Prose. Her short fiction and nonfiction can be found in Chicago Tribune, Five South, McSweeney's Internet Quarterly, The Saturday Evening Post, and more. She was the recipient of CutBank's 2023 Montana Prize in Nonfiction, the winner of the San Miguel Essay Prize, and she earned an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Jen recently received a grant from the Ohio Arts Council to support the completion of a collection of essays on her day jobs from ages fourteen to twenty-two. After teaching writing for over a decade and managing a leadership program at Ohio State University, Jen began to combine meditation techniques, leadership research, and the power of creativity to launch Unleash Creatives, a holistic arts organization in the Midwest.Shorter Bio: Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation.

She is the author of We Arrive Uninvited (Steel Toe Books), The Glass City (Hollywood Books International), and After the Gazebo (Rain Mountain Press). She founded Unleash Creatives in 2019 and currently lives in Ohio, where she is working on a memoir in essays. jenknox.com.