Janelle Bassett

Janelle Bassett is a St. Louis-based fiction writer whose work has appeared in Wigleaf, among many other journals. Her story "From Yoyo" ran in Wigleaf in March 2022. She also works as a fiction editor at Split Lip Magazine. Her story collection Thanks for This Riot, published by University of Nebraska Press in 2024, won the Prairie Schooner Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. It was also longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.