Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1988-89 (?)
• Raised—Fresno, California, USA
• Education—B.S., Poly Cal, San Luis Obispo; M.F.A., Portland State University
• Currently—lives in Portland, Oregon
Chelsea Bieker is from California’s Central Valley. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award and her fiction and essays have been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, Catapult magazine, Electric Literature, and Joyland, among other publications.
She was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship and holds an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University. Godshot is her first novel, inspired by her own mother's fleeing an abusive husband, Bieker's father. Read her heart-rending essay in The Paris Review.
Bieker lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and children, where she teaches writing. (Adapted from the publisher.)
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