Jadi Campbell writes for Stuttgart’s New English American Theater. She is a Best American Essays nominee. Her work has appeared in MAYDAY, Hindsight, Epistemic Literary, THEMA, and International Human Rights Art Movement Magazine. Her books are Broken In, Tsunami Cowboys, Grounded, The Trail Back Out, and The Taste of Your Name. Her most recent awards were Winner of the 2023 San Francisco Book Festival in General Fiction for The Trail Back Out, and Finalist for Greece’s 2025 Eyelands Short Story Award.
The title story The Trail Back Out is presently longlisted for the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Award. https://ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Quarterfinalists/
My work fits the category of contemporary literary fiction. You should recognize yourself - and people you know - in my stories.
