John Englehardt

Englehardt earned a BA in creative writing from Seattle University and a MFA from the University of Arkansas.[1] Englehardt taught English composition and creative writing classes at the University of Arkansas while completing his MFA.[2] After completing his MFA, Englehardt worked as a contributing editor at Pacifica Literary Review,[3] and was selected as a 2015 Made at Hugo House Fellow.[4]

His debut novel Bloomland was published by Dzanc Books in 2019.[5] His writing has appeared in Sycamore Review, The Stranger, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Monkeybicycle, and The Seattle Review of Books,[6] among other publications.[7][8] Englehardt currently teaches writing classes at Hugo House,[9] a Seattle-based non-profit writing center.

Kirkus Reviews describes Bloomland as "Hugely important, hauntingly brutal" and states, "Englehardt has just announced himself as one of America’s most talented emerging writers."[10] Kristen Millares Young of The Washington Post writes, "“Bloomland” juxtaposes the proximate with the predator, intermingling their perspectives until the flickering becomes a bloody tapestry of our beleaguered nation."[11] In The Literary Review, Jeff Bursey states, "writing a relatively non-polemical debut novel about a student who shoots others at his campus would be difficult to do, but John Englehardt, in Bloomland, has achieved this feat."[12] Publishers Weekly describes the novel as "potent" and states, "Englehardt’s debut poses timely, difficult questions."[13]

• 2012 A&P Winter Fiction Contest, The Stranger[14]
• 2014 Wabash Prize for Fiction, Sycamore Review[15]
• 2018 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction[5][11]
• 2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

• Englehardt, John. (Dec. 5, 2012). "Gingrich". The Stranger[16]
• Englehardt, John. (Dec. 16, 2013). "Kentbrook! Kentbrook! Kentbrook!" Monkey Bicycle[17]
• Englehardt, John. (Jul. 8, 2018) "From the Void I Saw Your Face" Vol. 1 Brooklyn[18]

Englehardt married his partner, Katharine Toombs, in March 2017.[19] He currently resides in Seattle.