Jennifer Caloyeras is the author of Strays. Her short stories have appeared in Booth, Storm Cellar, and other literary magazines. She recently served as the artist-in-residence at the Annenberg in Santa Monica and teaches writing at the the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Jennifer Caloyeras is an enormously talented writer with a rare combination of great imagination and heart."" - Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z""Jennifer Caloyeras's stories snap, crackle, and pop with animal energy. Every one of these stories is an unruly creature, wild at heart, fierce and funny, and heartbreaking."" - Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth""When you read Unruly Creatures, the stories stare back at you like a caged gorilla.  Haunting, revelatory, and utterly breathtaking, Caloyeras is an astonishing talent."" - Matthew J. Trafford, author of The Divinity Gene""Riotous, off-kilter, tender, magical-this collection is utterly accomplished and madly engaging. Jennifer Caloyeras's writing is as wild and beautiful as the unruly creatures in her stories."" - Laura Trunkey, author of Double Dutch, a 2017 ABA Indies Introduce title

Jennifer Caloyeras is the author of Strays. Her short stories have appeared in Booth, Storm Cellar, and other literary magazines. She recently served as the artist-in-residence at the Annenberg in Santa Monica and teaches writing at the the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Jennifer Caloyeras is an enormously talented writer with a rare combination of great imagination and heart."" - Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z""Jennifer Caloyeras's stories snap, crackle, and pop with animal energy. Every one of these stories is an unruly creature, wild at heart, fierce and funny, and heartbreaking."" - Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living through Plastic Explosives and All the Anxious Girls on Earth""When you read Unruly Creatures, the stories stare back at you like a caged gorilla.  Haunting, revelatory, and utterly breathtaking, Caloyeras is an astonishing talent."" - Matthew J. Trafford, author of The Divinity Gene""Riotous, off-kilter, tender, magical-this collection is utterly accomplished and madly engaging. Jennifer Caloyeras's writing is as wild and beautiful as the unruly creatures in her stories."" - Laura Trunkey, author of Double Dutch, a 2017 ABA Indies Introduce title