LJ Pemberton

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Author's Bio

LJ Pemberton is a writer / artist whose essays, poetry, and award-winning stories have been featured in numerous literary magazines and online publications. She currently reviews fiction for Publishers Weekly. Her novel, STILL ALIVE, is out now from Malarkey Books. Find her on bluesky @ljabouttown.bsky.social and on instagram @ljaboutlit. 

Education: 
Columbia University School of the Arts MFA

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
Brooklyn Rail
,
Change Seven
,
Vice

Fiction

Book:
Still Alive (Malarkey Books, 2024)
Journals:
Baffler
,
Cobalt Review
,
Corium Magazine
,
Exacting Clam
,
Hobart
,
Los Angeles Review
,
Malarkey Books
,
Maudlin House
,
Northwest Review
,
theEEEL

Poetry

Journals:
Change Seven
,
Drunk Monkeys
,
Entropy
,
Hobart
,
JuxtaProse Literary Magazine
,
Levee Magazine
,
Pank
Prizes won: 

Longlist, 2025 Dublin Literary Award, Dublin City Council
Longlist, 2020 Book Contest, [PANK] Magazine
Winner, 2018 Short Fiction Contest, Los Angeles Review
Nominee, 2015 Best of the Net, Change Seven Magazine
Winner, 2014 Zora Neale Hurston Fiction Prize, Cobalt Review

 

 

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Last update: Feb 05, 2025