John Englehardt
John Lewis Englehardt III is an American fiction writer and educator. He was a 2015-2016 Made at Hugo House fellow and has written his debut novel Bloomland.Life and career
Englehardt received a BA in Creative Writing from Seattle University and a MFA from the University of Arkansas. Englehardt taught English composition and creative writing classes at the University of Arkansas while completing his MFA, during which time he won the 2014 Sycamore Review's Wabash prize in fiction and The Stranger‘s A&P story contest. After completing his MFA, Englehardt worked as a contributing editor at Pacifica Literary Review, and was selected as a 2015 Made at Hugo House Fellow. Bloomland, his debut novel will be published by Dzanc Books in 2019. His writing has appeared in Sycamore Review, The Stranger, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Monkeybicycle, and The Seattle Review of Books, among other publications. Englehardt currently teaches writing classes at Hugo House, a Seattle based non-profit writing center.Personal life
Englehardt married his partner, Katharine Toombs, in March 2017. He currently resides in Seattle.
