She is the author of Tiny Vessels, chosen by Rita Bullwinkel for the Masters Review Chapbook Open, now available from Red Mare Press. She won the 59th Annual New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction and the 2025 Robert Colley Award from Stone Canoe. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions, and has appeared or is forthcoming in many places, including Boston Review, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast (Winner of the Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction), Split Lip, DIAGRAM, Witness, and 100 Word Story, as well as the Bath, Bristol, and Oxford award anthologies.

JR is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Syracuse University, where she was awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize in Fiction. She also holds a PhD from Columbia University. She teaches Fiction and Environmental Writing at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She lives in Western New York with her husband, their two children, and of course the family’s two border collies and four guinea pigs.