Jeffrey S. Chapman

Publications

Books & stories.

Forthcoming

Everyone Is Lost

Everyone Is Lost is a collection of stories about people who have misplaced something essential and are not entirely sure how—or whether—to get it back. Rooted in suburban and domestic spaces, the stories unfold in a world shaped by myth, fable, and metamorphosis, where ordinary lives intersect with labyrinths, gods, monsters, and other mythic intrusions.

Winner of the 2026 BOA Short Fiction Prize. Forthcoming from BOA Editions.

Graphic work

Comics

Chapman’s short comics have appeared in literary journals and independent publications, bringing the compression and visual logic of comics into conversation with literary fiction.

Read online

“Get Thee to the Playground”Columbia Journal ↗ “Sleds Like Bats”Southern Humanities Review ↗ “Unvoweled”Saturday Evening Post ↗ “Getaway”Hobart ↗ “Taylor Swift Won’t Survive the Labyrinth”The Forge ↗ “Taylor Swift Can Do No Wrong”Emrys Journal ↗ “The Bowman School of Things You Always Wanted to Do”Flock ↗ “Kitchen Stories”CutBank Online ↗ “Wainwright Exceeds Expectations, Becomes a God”Western Humanities Review ↗

Complete bibliography

2026

  • “Get Thee to the Playground”, Columbia Journal, fiction feature.
  • “Sleds Like Bats”, Southern Humanities Review, fiction feature.
  • “Beautiful, Beautiful,” Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 39, Spring 2026, pp. 153–54.
  • “This Is How,” Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 39, Spring 2026, pp. 54–55.
  • “Overwhelmed,” Louisiana Literature, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 22–23.

2025

2022

  • “The Good Fight,” Ganga Review: Writings for Liberation, pp. 45–61.

2021

  • “The Bikini,” Sixfold, Summer 2021. Contest selection
  • “How We Learn,” Faultline: Journal of Arts and Letters, vol. 30, Spring 2021, pp. 75–76.

2020

  • “Unvoweled”, Saturday Evening Post, fiction feature.
  • “Getaway”, Hobart, fiction feature.
  • “Pandemonium,” Potomac Review, issue 67, Fall 2020, pp. 95–96.
  • “In a Country,” Potomac Review, issue 67, Fall 2020, p. 97.
  • “Dragon,” Potomac Review, issue 67, Fall 2020, p. 98.
  • “Crusade of Children,” Potomac Review, issue 67, Fall 2020, pp. 99–100.
  • “Wanderlust,” Potomac Review, issue 67, Fall 2020, p. 101.
  • “Taylor Swift Won’t Survive the Labyrinth”, The Forge, fiction feature.
  • “Changes,” Chautauqua, issue 17.
  • “Night Like This,” Mount Hope, issue 17, Spring 2020.

2019

2016

  • “Genesis,” South Dakota Review, vol. 51, nos. 3–4.
  • “Gravity,” South Dakota Review, vol. 51, nos. 3–4.
  • “Photo Credits,” South Dakota Review, vol. 51, nos. 3–4.

2015

  • “A Mad Celebration of Nothing at All,” Black Warrior Review, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2015.

2014

  • “Exile,” South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction + Art, vol. 16, Fall 2014.
  • “Paradox,” Sonora Review, issue 66, Fall 2014.
  • “Kitchen Stories”, CutBank Online, March 2014. Selected and reprinted for the 40th anniversary

2013

  • “The Quails,” Santa Monica Review, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall 2013.

2012

  • “The Promise,” The Florida Review, vol. 37, no. 1, Summer 2012.

2010

  • “Rock Pusher Boss,” The South Carolina Review, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring 2010, pp. 50–58.

2008

  • “Great Salt Lake,” Bellingham Review, vol. 31, issue 60, Spring 2008, pp. 44–51.
  • “Kitchen Stories,” CutBank, issue 68, Winter 2008, pp. 107–10.

2007

  • “Chuck and the Fat Cop,” Event, vol. 36, issue 2, pp. 97–105.
  • “Rapture,” Blue Mesa Review, issue 19, Spring 2007, pp. 22–23.

2006

2005–06

  • “Migration,” The Southeast Review, vol. 24, nos. 1–2, Winter 2005–06, pp. 89–90.

2005

  • “The Scapegoat,” Fiction International, issue 38, pp. 34–36.
  • “Crêpes,” Puerto del Sol, vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 33–37.

2004

  • “Gigantomachy,” Hawaii Review, vol. 27, issue 62, p. 61.
  • “A Story of Feet,” Hawaii Review, vol. 27, issue 62, pp. 63–64.
  • “Houseguests,” Hawaii Review, vol. 27, issue 62, pp. 65–66.

2003–04

  • “Ball,” Spork, vol. 3, issue 1, Winter 2003–04, pp. 794–95.
  • “On Love Stories,” Spork, vol. 3, issue 1, Winter 2003–04, p. 796.

2003

  • “Bob Dole’s Transcontinental Tour and American Voyage, A True-to-Life Travel Narrative Told in Reverse-Chronological Order,” Barrow Street, Summer 2003, pp. 85–87.

2001

  • “Mangoes,” Blue Mesa Review, issue 13, pp. 126–27.

2000

  • “In New York,” CutBank, issue 54, Fall 2000, pp. 50–56.

Anthologies

2009

  • “Great Salt Lake,” Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri, edited by Seth Horton and James Thomas, University of Texas Press, pp. 48–56. Invited