Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson is an MFA student and member of the fiction editorial team for TriQuarterly Online.

Works by this contributor:

Born in the Workshop: The MFA and the Short-Story Cycle

Short-story cycles are often marginalized because they are seen as apprentice works.
At Sea: Confessions on Travel and Travel Writing

Seeing as I’ve never enjoyed reading travel essays, I am bewildered and conflicted now that I’ve ended up writing one.
Journaling NaNoWriMo

Why did I sign up for NaNoWriMo? I'm actually cheating a little bit.
Finding a Voice: First-Person Narration in Young Adult Literature and Coming-of-Age Adult Fiction

Some of the most memorable and celebrated narrators in literary fiction—from J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield to Sandra Cisneros’s Esperanza Cordero—aren’t even old enough to vote. But we listen.

Linda McCarriston: Interview

According to Linda McCarriston, poetry exists for reasons beyond displays of linguistic or lyrical talent.
Bonnie Nadzam: Interview

I expected to feel a certain level of discomfort when I began to read Lamb...
Adam Levin: Interview

Last year, Levin published his ambitious 1,030-page debut novel The Instructions, which spans four days in the life of a brilliant ten-year-old protagonist, Gurion Maccabee, who may or may not be the Messiah.
M. G. Stephens: Interview

When author, playwright, and poet M. G. Stephens was fifteen years old, he had a chance encounter with Thelonious Monk that would change his life forever.

not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them by Jenny Boully

Composed of various excursions into Peter Pan, it extends J. M. Barrie’s characters and comments on the whole enterprise, expanding the story...
Hallucination by William Fuller

Imposed order diminishes the rich, primitive, chaotic experience of being alive.
Alfred Kazin's Journals

Once he has his subject in his grasp, he is able to pick at marble until it becomes art.
The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman

This cycling of perspectives allows the reader to learn about the characters with surprising intimacy—certain details become much clearer when there is only one person in the proverbial room.