Recent publications, exhibitions, workshops, and updates from across my creative practice.
I have been invited to join the McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) 2026 Speculative Online Workshop this fall. I'm very excited for this opportunity and am looking forward to participating in Gerardo Sámano Córdova's workshop.
I'm happy to announce my appointment as Faculty Advisor to the Sierra Nevada Review. As a recent graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe's low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing, I'm honored to continue mentoring the journal's editorial staff and support the publication in showcasing outstanding contemporary writing.
I gave an artist talk in February, 2026 on the mural I created during my visual art residency at the Common Well. To get a peek into the evolution of my artistic practice over the past 25 years, watch the full presentation on my Youtube channel.
I participated on a Hackfort panel discussing the use of AI in art, "AI and the Artist Journey: Renaissance or Reckoning?"
I will be reading at this year’s Storyfort in Boise, Idaho as part of “This Is The Place: Night Two at Ochos,” Friday March 27 from 5-7pm.
I officially graduated, earning my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Go Wolf Pack!
I’ve been selected to attend the Vermont Studio Center Artist and Writer Residency for three weeks in September 2026.
Volume 40 of the Sierra Nevada Review is now available online, featuring a curated collection of poetry and creative non-fiction from this winter’s open reading period.
I was selected to participate in a 6-month SHOW & TELL Artist Residency Program at The Common Well, in partnership with Alexa Rose Foundation. During my residency, I created a multi-paneled mural comprised of 30 individual portraits titled As Americans of Good Conscience, which was displayed as part of the Wave III culminating exhibition at The Common Well in Boise, Idaho, from February 20 - March 27, 2026.
You can read my interview with Peter Mountford at JMWW ahead of the release of his new short story collection, Detonator, out September 15th.
I’ve been selected to attend the 2025 Sewanee Writers’ Conference this summer! I couldn’t be more excited to be spending a good portion of July at the College of the South in Tennessee with a gaggle of talented writers, agents, and editors.
My interview with Richard Mirabella is out now on Split Lip Magazine, where we discuss his process and the inspiration behind his debut novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest.
The fall 2024 online issue of the Sierra Nevada Review is available now, featuring “Family Dinners at Samba” by Katie Bockino, who I had the pleasure of working with in polishing her story prior to publication.
My short story “Silver Lips” has been published in Volume 3: Issue 6 of OLIT magazine.
I’ve been posting memorable and/or favorite quotes from the novels I’m reading on my Instagram. Give me a follow if you like.
My short story “The Appeasers” was a finalist in this year’s New Millennium Writing Awards.
My story "Chrysalis" was a finalist and included in the 2023 Saints and Sinners fiction anthology. Read a review of the anthology by Jerry Wheeler.
My flash fiction piece “Seven Pints” was published online by Flash Fiction Magazine. You can read it here.
Jamey Baumgardt
Writer • Visual artist • Creative mentor
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