JR Fenn

Author of Tiny Vessels, chosen by Rita Bullwinkel as the winner of The 2024 Masters Review Chapbook Open

“To read these seventeen gem-like dispatches from a dreamlike world is to receive a lovely condensed version of what life on earth is like, and to be blessed with a feeling of fondness and of longing for a kinder, more natural world.”

—George Saunders, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December

The vessels may be tiny, but the worlds contained in this collection are immense. These small stories ache and breathe and sing and dream, contemplating everything from the inside of the tiniest seed to the farthest reaches of the universe. With taut, poetic prose, Fenn's work captures the complexity and wonder of existing.

—Tara Campbell, author of City of Dancing Gargoyles and Midnight at the Organporium

These stories are lush in both their everydayness and their strangeness. Even those rooted in the ordinary world read like dispatches from somewhere else, because JR Fenn has a way of cracking open what you didn’t know could open. Tiny Vessels is a surprising and captivating collection—a dreamy delight from a writer I’ll eagerly follow into any world she unearths.

—Michelle N. Ross, author of They Kept Running

Available February 5, 2026 from Red Mare Press