Jane VB Larson

Jane VB Larson holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arkansas. She was a 2014 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices fellow, and her collection of stories, Understand Me, Sugar, was published in 2017 by Yellow Flag Press. Her novella, Mon Dieu, Love won the 2022 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2023. Jane’s stories and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in Bayou Magazine, Cream City Review, Cherry Tree, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Foglifter, among others. She is the Associate Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas and the founder of The Diamond Line, the university’s undergraduate literary magazine. Originally from Louisiana, Jane lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.