John Elizabeth Stintzi (JES, they/she) is an award-winning novelist, poet, cartoonist, photographer, educator, and editor who was born and raised on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. Their work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Watermill Center, and Queens University, and they have been awarded the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the inaugural Sator New Works award from Two Dollar Radio.

JES is the author of the acclaimed novels Vanishing Monuments (shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award) and My Volcano (longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2022 Book Prize for Fiction, a Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, and published in Italian in 2023 and Spanish in 2024), as well as the short story collection (featuring illustrations by JES) Bad Houses. Their latest novel, Guest Services at The Museum of Sexual Deviance, is set to release in the fall of 2026.

JES is also the author of three poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection Junebat (shortlisted for the Raymond Souster award from the League of Canadian Poets), and is the cartoonist of the mini-comic The Children of Gulga-Krü and the graphic novel (in-progress) Automaton Deactivation Bureau.

JES’s fiction and poetry has been published throughout the US and Canada, in venues such as Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and Best Canadian Poetry. They are currently a poetry editor for Contemporary Verse 2, and have edited award-winning books for Book*hug and Arsenal Pulp Press. As a cover designer, they have designed for Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, Arsenal Pulp Press, and Two Dollar Radio. Their illustrations and photography have been featured or exhibited in Short Story Long, the Kansas City Society of Contemporary Photography’s Current Works exhibit, Plug Gallery, F-Stop Magazine, The New Territory, and the HR Block Artspace in Kansas City.

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JES’s does not currently have an agent, so all inquiries about their literary work can be directed to them.

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