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JEN SULLIVAN BRYCH
Jen Sullivan Brych is an award-winning writer whose most recent publications include Witness and CALYX. Past publications include The Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills and sparkle+blink. She was also a finalist for Third Coast magazine’s fiction contest. Her short plays have been performed in various Bay Area theaters, and she has an MFA from San Francisco State University. She has also read at large events like Litquake, Writers with Drinks, and Quiet Lightning. She's led panel discussions and hosted authors as part of the Visiting Writers Series at City College of San Francisco, where she taught creative writing and literature for many years, and helped revive Forum, the college’s literary magazine founded in 1937. In her previous life, she was also a journalist, and she wrote hundreds of articles about online music and culture for Wired before going freelance and writing for other outlets including Salon.
She is currently working on a novel.
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FICTION (AND FICTION-LIKE OBJECTS)
"Hey" in CALYX
"The Man Under the Bed" in Fourteen Hills literary magazine (was also a finalist for Third Coast magazine's fiction contest) (purchase required)
"A Note on Euphemisms in My New-Adult, Erotic Novel" in sparkle + blink literary magazine. I also read it at the Quiet Lightning reading series.
"Rapping" was published on the Bang Out website (RIP), and I read it at their storytelling event at Amnesia (RIP) in San Francisco.
I read a story at the Writers with Drinks reading series at The Make Out Room in San Francisco. The show was reviewed by Litseen.
REVIEWS/JOURNALISM-ESQUE THINGS
"We Are Not Old. But We Are Having Some Realizations" in Witness. I read an excerpt about halfway through the launch party in this video here.
"A Rabid Fan of the Novel Revolutionary Road Compares It to the Film" in The Rumpus literary magazine
"The Last Book I Loved" in The Rumpus
"Prop 98 Could Destroy the Next Kerouac" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian (partial article available)
"It Hurts So Bad" in Salon.com
You can find some of the hundreds of articles that I wrote for Wired here, but this list is over 23 pages long. So here are some of my favorites (and please note that only your first few articles are free).
"Chuck D on MP3"
I wrote about cypherpunks making a porno
"Street Cred: Adventure Overload" (review of hypertext fiction Grammatron in Wired Magazine)
I visited Xerox PARC labs and wrote about their electric paper
PLAYS
I've had various readings/performances of my plays in the Bay Area. Here's a selection:
My short play "Puzzle" was selected for the semi-finalist round of the Sonoma Stage Works Playfest competition
Open Tab Productions did staged readings of my short plays "Puzzle", "Remote" and "TP" at the Actor's Center of San Francisco
My one-act play, "By Malik in the USA", was selected for the Clash and Celebration of American Culture festival at Diablo Valley College, and also for a one-act play festival at San Francisco State University. No Nude Men Productions also gave it a reading at their fundraiser.
I wrote for sketch comedy troupe Killing My Lobster's show, Killing My Lobster Takes a Cruise
My full-length play "Robin & Mema" was selected for a staged reading at SFSU's Greenhouse Theatre Festival.
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CONTACT
juniperj2 at gmail dot com
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