Jake Zucker
Jake Zucker’s short stories have appeared in West Branch, Sonora Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, and he’s received residencies and awards from the New York State Summer Writers Institute, the Keller Estate, and the Purdue University Libraries and College of Liberal Arts.
A former NCAA cross country athlete for the University of Rochester, Zucker worked as a contributing writer for ESPN the Magazine and earned an M.F.A. in Fiction from Purdue University. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Amherst, where he’s at work on a manuscript about distance running, anti-Semitic violence, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and white-collar crime.