Jen Knox

Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. Her first novel, We Arrive Uninvited, won the Steel Toe Books Award, and her latest novel, Radicals, inspired by the life of Victoria Woodhull, will be released by Library Tales Publishing in November 2026. Jen is also the author of At Work, which will be released by Cornerstone Books UWSP in 2027. Jen's fiction can be found in Chicago Tribune, Prose Online, McSweeney's Internet Quarterly, The Saturday Evening Post, and many more. She won CutBank’s Montana Prize in Nonfiction for "Disembodied" and the San Miguel Contest for her essay, "Teeth." Jen is the proud recipient of grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council to complete her latest projects. Her residencies include The Ou Gallery, Hammer & Sky, The Vermont Studio Center, and Rockvale Writers’ Colony. After teaching writing for over a decade and managing a leadership program at Ohio State University, Jen began to combine meditation techniques, leadership research, and the power of creativity to launch Unleash Creatives, a holistic arts organization in the Midwest that champions individual voices and provides 1:1 coaching to anyone seeking to better clarify, create, and connect. Jen writes The Resilient Creative where she posts about writing, resilience, meditation, and the kind of stories that change the world. ​