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{{Short description|American horror fiction writer}}
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'''Jac Jemc''' is an American fiction writer. In 2023 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. She was a finalist for the 2013 [[PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize]] and did win the Paula Anderson Book Award. Jemc was awarded two [[Illinois]] Arts Council Grants. In 2014 Jemc was among a list of 25 Writers to Watch by the Guild Literary Complex. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines including ''Guernica'', ''LA Review of Books'', and ''The Southwest Review''. She has been the writer in residence for a number of locations including the [[University of Notre Dame]] and [[Hald Manor|The Danish Center for Writers and Translators]].

Jemc completed her M.F.A at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] and now teaches for [[University of California San Diego]]. She previously worked for [[Northeastern Illinois University]]. Jemc worked for [[Hobart (magazine)|Hobart]] as their web nonfiction editor.<ref name="St. Lawrence University">{{cite web | title=My account | website=St. Lawrence University | url=https://www.stlawu.edu/people/jac-jemc | access-date=2020-02-22 | archive-date=2020-02-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222215953/https://www.stlawu.edu/people/jac-jemc | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Jemc Blackman">{{cite web | last1=Jemc | first1=Jac | last2=Blackman | first2=Sarah | title=THE GRIP OF IT | website=Kirkus Reviews | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jac-jemc/the-grip-of-it/ | access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref name="Carroll 2019">{{cite web | last=Carroll | first=Tobias | title="I'm Looking For the Surreal Moments of Real Life": An Interview With Jac Jemc | website=Vol. 1 Brooklyn | date=2019-10-08 | url=https://vol1brooklyn.com/2019/10/08/im-looking-for-the-surreal-moments-of-real-life-an-interview-with-jac-jemc/ | access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref name="Department of Literature">{{cite web | title=Jac Jemc | website=Department of Literature | url=http://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/jjemc.html | access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref name="Chicago Review of Books – Book reviews, author interviews, and literary news. 2019">{{cite web | title=The Difference Between Terror And Horror – Chicago Review of Books | website=Chicago Review of Books – Book reviews, author interviews, and literary news. | date=2019-11-07 | url=https://chireviewofbooks.com/2019/11/07/jac-jemc-false-bingo/ | access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref name="US Macmillan 2016">{{cite web | title=Jac Jemc - Authors | website=US Macmillan | date=2016-06-14 | url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/ | access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref><ref name="Jemc Reviews">{{cite web | last1=Jemc | first1=Jac | last2=Reviews | first2=Complete Book | title=Books by Jac Jemc and Complete Book Reviews | website=PublishersWeekly.com | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/jac-jemc.html | access-date=2020-02-22}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

*''My Only Wife'', 2012
*''A Different Bed Every Time'', 2014
*''[[The Grip of It (novel)|The Grip of It]]'', 2017
*''False Bingo: Stories'', 2019
*''Empty Theatre'', 2023

==References and sources==

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==External links==
* {{ISFDB name|id=Jac_Jemc}}

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