Jamie Tews is a writer from the Chicago suburbs. She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, where she was the nonfiction editor for Ecotone. She is currently working on a collection of short stories that split space between North Carolina and Chicago. The stories explore the complex ways people break each other’s hearts and, usually, their own. In one story, a girl has a baby with a boyfriend she doesn’t trust, and he leaves her alone with their child. In another, two girls with eating disorders share a small apartment and use each other to figure out becoming full. And in another, a girl who has road rage spends a lot of money on fancy parmesan cheese to make “marry me fettuccine alfredo.”
Jamie’s work can be found in Off Assignment, Understory, and Eastern Iowa Review, among others. She currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she edits recreation master plans & teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina - Asheville.
