About me
AnnElise Hatjakes is a writer and professor living in Reno, Nevada. Her debut story collection, Matter Out of Place (University of Nevada Press, 2026), explores the relationship between place and identity through the stories of a grieving ghost hunter, an accidental wildfire starter, and a brothel-touring college student, among other characters that exemplify live in Northern Nevada. Her work has been shortlisted for the Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction, the Curt Johnson Prize, and Phoebe Journal’s 2025 fiction contest, and appears in journals including Juked, Bull, Tahoma Literary Review, Typehouse, and others.
