Jeremy Stelzner is a writer and teacher based in Maryland. He was born and raised in New York, where he spent much of his time reading and daydreaming about the Mets winning a pennant. They came pretty close this year.

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Jeremy is a graduate of the creative writing program at the Harvard Extension School, and his fiction has appeared in various literary magazines, including Across the Margin Magazine, After Happy Hour: A Journal of Literature and Art, the Jewish Literary Journal, and the 2024 Coolest American Stories Anthology. His story "The Thin Line" was selected as a runner-up in the 2024 Prime Number Magazine Short Story Competition.

 

Publishing News:

I'm grateful to the editors at Stygian Lepus Magazine for selecting my first attempt at a horror story, Of Monsters and Men, for publication in their next edition.  

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Also thrilled that the good people at Folk Opera Magazine, have decided on publishing my story, Comfort Air, later this winter.

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Small sidebar- I'm back on George Saunders. I often return to his writing when I'm stuck on something. For whatever reason, his words help me find my way. Anyway, I came upon this little gem that perfectly expresses how I approach my own stories.

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"The focus of my artistic life has been trying to learn to write emotionally moving stories that reader feels compelled to finish."

- George Saunders "A Swim in the Pond in the Rain"

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