Jennifer Companik

Jennifer (Jen) Companik is a Chicago-area author, translator, and photographer who works as a fiction editor at TriQuarterly. She holds an M.A. from Northwestern University. Her debut short story collection, Check Engine and Other Stories, was published by Thirty West Publishing House in 2021, with ten literary stories about gender roles, marriage, ghosts, and death. Her awards include first prize in The Ledge's 2014 Fiction Awards and a Pushcart Prize nomination for nonfiction from Border Crossing. Her fiction has appeared in venues including Glassworks, The London Reader, and The Northern Virginia Review.