Jamie Iredell

Iredell grew up in Castroville, California,[1] and attended North Monterey County High School.

Iredell’s writing has been positively reviewed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution[2] and The Brooklyn Rail.[3]

Writing in 2010, the Quarterly Conversation said of Prose, Poems, a Novel that "The title of the collection serves as a bold declaration of war on the boundaries of genre. Iredell is not flouting the rules of genre, though. Instead, Iredell weaves his three titular genres together into a form that is all its own, containing elements of each."[4]

Nailed Magazine wrote of The Book of Freaks in 2011, that “Iredell has produced an absolute masterpiece of the absurd and surreal – a faux-encyclopedia that contains pieces of everything and everyone you have ever encountered in your life.”[5]

In 2014, Publishers Weekly noted of I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac, that it is “An entertaining and insightful collection often interested in the messy and difficult aspects of life.”[6]

Los Angeles Magazine listed Last Mass among "6 Books You Need to Read this August"[7] in 2015. Also, in 2015, Slate wrote about Last Mass as “An exemplary work of creative nonfiction in the vein of Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts."[8]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has called his writing "wildly imaginative".[9] His 2018 novel The Fat Kid drew comparison to Cormac McCarthy.[10]

In addition to writing, he teaches college literature and creative writing.[11][12][13]

• Prose, Poems, a Novel (Orange Alert Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0981748122.
• The Book of Freaks (Future Tense Books, 2010) ISBN 978-1892061393.
• I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac (Future Tense Books, 2011) ISBN 978-1892061461.
• Last Mass (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015) ISBN 978-1937865429.
• The Fat Kid (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) ISBN 978-1948700085.