Chris Vanjonack
Chris Vanjonack’s fiction and creative nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in One Story, Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he writes and teaches at the Ohio State University as a Post-MFA Scholar. Find him on Twitter @chrisvanjonack.
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Open Spaces
The West Sarah and I did a ton of googling with all the extra time on our hands, and we resolved to fuck in each of the nearly one hundred public, state, and national parks in the continental United States that are rumored to be haunted. We wanted to do it before the world […]
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Navigating Post-Pandemic Writing: Chris Vanjonack Opens Up About “Open Spaces”
In the following interview, author Chris Vanjonack discusses his writing process for “Open Spaces,” featured in Volume 73.1 of Shenandoah, as it relates to loneliness and isolation felt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read “Open Spaces” here. What inspired you to write this piece? What specifically inspired the pandemic setting of this story? […]