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Jerakah Greene (they/them) is a fiction writer whose work explores queerness, gender identity, and their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma; they are currently at work on a novel that explores all of these.
Awards & Publications
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Artist Stephen Towns Is Finding The Humanity In History
Review of the artist’s talk published in The Pickup, 2025
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Bygone Magazines Isn’t Trying To Go Viral
Review published in The Pickup, 2025
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You Can’t Postpone Pride
Review of Tulsa Pride events published in The Pickup, 2025
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Granum Foundation Prize
Shortlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize, 2023
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Third Place: 2023 Fourth Annual Doro Boehme Fiction Editors' Prize
“Cottonmouth,” published in Hypertext Magazine in June, 2023.
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"On Language, Connection, and Peculiar Literature: an Interview with Claire Donato"
Interview with author Claire Donato ahead of the publication of her latest book Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts published in LIT.
Jerakah Greene is a writer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their work can be found in Hypertext Magazine, Crabfat Magazine, Impossible Archetype and elsewhere. Jerakah was a 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, shortlisted for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize, and has been awarded residencies from Dairy Hollow, the Vermont Center for the Creative Arts, and the 2024 Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices. They received their MFA in fiction at The New School.
Additionally, Jerakah has extensive experience in literary magazines and editorial work. Most recently, Jerakah interned at Oxford American as a fact checker and copy editor for their Spring and Summer 2024 issues. At The New School, they were the fiction editor of LIT, evaluating submissions, managing a team of volunteer readers, and copy editing pieces for publication. They were also a junior editor and intern for F(r)iction Magazine and the reviews and production editor for Hair Trigger in 2019. They have served as a volunteer reader for Electric Literature and The Rumpus.