Baker Artist Portfolios

Jen Grow’s debut collection, MY LIFE AS A MERMAID, published in 2015, won the 2012 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition. Her work also earned the 2016 Mary Sawyers Baker Award. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Other Voices, The Sun Magazine, The GSU Review, Hunger Mountain, Indiana Review and many other journals and anthologies. She co-authored the book SEEKING THE SPIRIT (Morehouse Publishing, 2006) with Harry Brunett. She received a 2015 Rubys Artist Project Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation; and three Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. 

Her current work-in-progress, POCKET THERAPY FOR WRITERS: A BRAIN-BODY GUIDE TO THE PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE OF WRITING, is about the personal, cultural, psychological, and historical nature of creativity, exploring how our beliefs, expectations, perspectives, and even neurobiology affect our ability to create. 

A concurrent work-in-progress is a collection of essays, tentatively titled CATALOG OF LIES, exploring the relationship between honesty and illusion, truth and misperception, reality and identity. This project is an expansion of her Rubys Artist Project Grant for "My Father's House."