Kris Saknussemm was born in Berkeley, California. He graduated with honors from Dartmouth College and holds an MA from the University of Washington. He has won First Prize in the Boston Review and River Styx Short Fiction Contests, and received the Fiction Collective 2 Award for Innovative Writing, in addition to publishing in a wide range of journals such as Opium Magazine, Hotel Amerika, The New England Review, The Hudson Review, Gargoyle, The Santa Monica Review, The Antioch Review, Nimrod, The Dirty Goat, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Hawaii Review, The Southwest Review, South Carolina Review and ZYZZYVA, amongst 300 others internationally.
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