Zak Jones

Zak Jones is the author of Fancy Gap (Hamish Hamilton, 2026). He is a writer, literary scholar and US Army Veteran. A dual Canadian-American citizen, he grew up between rural North Carolina and Toronto. His short story, “So Much More to Say,” won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and his story, “Love Handles,” won the 2023 Norma Epstein National Award. Zak holds an MA in English Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate studying veterans’ narratives, extremist movements and war culture in the United States. His dissertation project is entitled "Bad Veterans: Outcasts, Terrorists, Assassins, and Whistleblowers in the American Narrative."

List of Publications

• Fancy Gap: a Novel - Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Canada), 2026
• A Kind of Tempered Glory: a Novel - Penguin Canada (Forthcoming), 2028