Jared Lemus

  • Visiting Lecturer, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Managing Director

Jared Lemus is a 2022 Tin House Scholar, whose work has appeared in The Pinch, The Kenyon Review Online, PANK, Cleaver, Joyland, and Story, among others. His latest story, “Saint Dismas” is forthcoming in The Atlantic in the Fall of 2023. Jared holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, where he currently teaches fiction writing as a Visiting Lecturer. He has served as the Associate Editor of the Jabberwock Review, a Tin House Summer Workshop reader, and an Autumn House Press contest reader. His short story collection, Guatemalan Rhapsody, is forthcoming with Ecco-HarperCollins in the Spring of 2025. His debut novel will be published in 2027.