Author Bio:

Jamey Genna writes short stores, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. She received her Masters in Writing from the University of San Francisco and her BSED in English Education with a minor in Theater Arts from Montana State University, Billings. She also has a teaching art credential.

She teaches or has taught art, theater, English, and Creative Writing at Hercules High School in the East Bay. She worked for two summers as an advisor/mentor for the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing program and taught classes for several years at The Writing Salon in Berkeley. She teaches fiction and flash fiction classes privately and works as a manuscript editor and writing mentor.

During 2018-2019 she hosted a popular reading series at the Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco called Summer Sparks during the summer months and titled other names throughout the fall, winter, and spring months. She has read for many Bay area events such as Beast Crawl in Oakland, Litquake in San Francisco, and many other fun events and reading series such as Generations, Rolling Writers, along with bookstore reading series in the Bay area.

She is the author of Stories I Heard When I Went Home For My Grandmother’s Funeral, a self-published collection of Iowa stories. Many of the stories in this collection have been published in literary magazines. Currently she is working on and sending out her new collection called These Things May Never Come Clear.