About

Thea Chacamaty was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She moved to San Francisco to take classes at essentially every Bay Area community college until she eventually earned her BA in English from Mills College in 2010. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program in 2019, where she was also a 2019-2020 Postgraduate Zell Fellow. As a teacher, she has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan and the Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon. She now lives in Marin County with her family, and is currently at work on a short story collection and a novel. In a previous life, she fronted the band Cruel Summer, dubbed “San Francisco’s jangle darlings.”

Publications

“Bounty” - Indiana Review, forthcoming

“Good Mother” - Hopkins Review, forthcoming

“Harm Reduction” - Michigan Quarterly Review, 2023

• Winner of the 2024 Lawrence Prize for Fiction

• Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

“Sun Damage” - the Southern Review, 2023

“Earthquake Weather” - the Missouri Review, 2020

Honors & Awards

Steinbeck Fellowship, 2024-2025

Tin House Autumn Workshop, 2024

Yaddo Residency, 2024

Michigan Quarterly Review’s Lawrence Foundation Prize for “Harm Reduction,” 2024

In Cahoots Residency (full scholarship), 2024

Tucson Literary Festival, Second Place for “Sun Damage,” 2022

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (full scholarship), 2021

Writing by Writers Boulder (full scholarship), 2020

Zell Postgraduate Fellowship, 2019-2020

Henfield Prize for short fiction, 2019

Kasdan Scholarship in screenwriting, 2019

Tin House Summer Workshop, 2018

Hopwood Award for short fiction, 2018

Literary Representation:

Samantha Shea
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