Justin St. Germain

Justin St. Germain is an author and associate professor at Oregon State University, where he directs the MFA program in creative writing and teaches creative nonfiction and true crime. He is the author of the memoir Son of a Gun, which won the 2014 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize in Nonfiction, and of Bookmarked: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. His work has earned a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo, and Stanford. The supplied pages name him in connection with PRAx for a 2026 event, but do not confirm the 2022 residency.