About
At an Icelandic truck stop, 2021.
“What a privilege to have worked with Jen Burke Anderson, whose insight, exactitude, sense of nuance, and poet’s heart all illuminate and inspire her writing and editing of nonfiction, fiction, and verse.”
— Josh Wilson, Editor, The Fabulist
Jen Burke Anderson was born and raised in a small town on the Central Coast of California, and now lives in the Richmond District of San Francisco. Her Substack Catastrophic Annoyances features writing on politics and culture, particularly cinema and the cinephile scene in the City.
Fabulist Editions released her novella The Constantly Unfolding Horrors of Vasily Nikoleyevich in 2024.
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Her short story “Shelter: A Photo Gallery” appears in Masters Review’s New Voices; it was shortlisted for the Review’s 2022–2023 Winter Short Story Prize for New Writers and recounts becoming stranded in Passau, Germany, during the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Paul Madonna acknowledged her as a historical source in his latest novel, The Commissions, released in September 2023.
Jen studied fiction with Josip Novakovich at the 2023 Catamaran Writing Conference in Pebble Beach, California. You can find her work in Caveat Lector, Noyo River Review, and The Lowestoft Chronicle.
Jen's poem “Munich Freiheit” was long-listed by Billy Collins in the 2021 Fish Publishing Poetry Competition of Cork, Ireland. Her short story “Soul Survivor” won the 2018 Sue Granzella Humor Prize as part of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition.
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She proofreads the Nob Hill Gazette, and you can often find her reading at Bay Area literary gatherings such as Litquake, Why There Are Words, and the Bazaar Writers Salon. ​
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