Jennifer Givhan is a Chicana/Indigenous author from the Southwestern desert and a recipient of the NEA and PEN Emerging Voices fellowships. The LA Times called her novel "Salt Bones" “a triumph... One of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller and literary writing.” It was a Publisher’s Weekly and Book Riot Best Book of 2025. Givhan has won an International Latino Book Award in Rudolfo Anaya Latino-Focused Fiction and holds a Master’s degree from Cal State Fullerton and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College.
Awards: International Latino Book Award, Southwest Book Award, New Ohio Review’s Poetry Prize, Phoebe Journal’s Greg Grummer Poetry Prize, the Pinch Journal Poetry Prize, Cutthroat’s Joy Harjo Poetry Prize.
Communities: Hispanic or Latinx, Indigenous or Native American, Person with a Disability
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