About

N.C. Happe is a writer currently residing in Chicago. Her recent work has appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review, Longreads, Ninth Letter, Guernica, and Indiana Review, and has also been featured in Roxane Gay’s newsletter, The Audacity.  She is the 2025 Luminarts Fellow in Prose and has also received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Monson Arts, and the Norton Island Residency for Artists and Writers. Selections from her manuscript have won 2024 Disquiet International Literary Prize as well as the 2025 StoryStudio Chicago Emerging Writer’s Award. N.C. holds an MFA from Northwestern University’s Litowitz Program, where she received the 2025 Jo Minow Prize for best unpublished full-length manuscript. 


Currently, she is working on completing a memoir-in-essays.

Connect with her at: nat[dot]vokra@gmail[dot]com