Kristopher Jansma is the author of WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY and THE UNCHANGEABLE SPOTS OF LEOPARDS, winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, he is now an assistant professor of English and creative writing at SUNY New Paltz and a graduate lecturer in fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He has written for the New York Times, Salon, The Believer, The Millions, Slice, BOMB and Electric Literature. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York.

Books by Kristopher Jansma

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

by Kristopher Jansma - Fiction

"F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe.