Jae Towle Vieira [she/they] is a writer and editor wandering between southern Arizona, northern California, and Portland, Oregon. Jae likes to explore the tensions between omniscience and subjectivity, long sentences, and the edges between perspectives. Nonbinary. Queer. Collector of blue glass relics. Known to put too many things on windowsills. They have one novel out on submission & they’re working on another.
Jae is the founding editor of Manzanita Papers, a literary subscription box dedicated to lesser-known excellent books. Jae also works as a production assistant on two Defector podcasts: Normal Gossip and Namedropping. Former roles: head editor of Sonora Review, assistant fiction editor at DIAGRAM, and community strategist at Wirecutter. Former name: Janet Towle. Find them on Instagram @jaetowlevieira.
Represented by Chris Combemale at Sterling Lord Literistic.
- "A Figure of Heroic Size" // Fairy Tale Review, The Rainbow Issue [forthcoming]
- "Page of Cups" // DIAGRAM 20th Anniversary Tarot Deck
- "Like You Own The Road" // Mississippi Review 47.3
- "Modal Window" // New England Review
- Excerpts from "Modal Window" // Episode 3 of NER Out Loud, performed by Becca Berlind and Sam Tompkins Martin
- "Chiriaco Summit" + "Waxing" + "Spectacle" + "The Sonoran Semi-Arid" // New South 17.1
- "The Components of a Union" // Passages North Issue 39
- "And it is my fault" // Carve Magazine Fall 2016, Winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest
- "And it is my fault" // featured in Episode 92 of Literary Roadhouse
- "Plumbed" // Eleven Eleven Issue 21
- "Lodestone & Weathervane" // The Normal School, Fall 2015