Jadi Campbell holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Oregon’s Honors College. Jadi tells the truth through fiction. In 2016, NEAT commissioned her for the story that connected Gershwin songs in I Like a Gershwin Tune, How About You? Her plays Bank On It and Baby You Were Great were performed in the 2019 One Page Play Festival; Baby You Were Great tied as runner-up for Best Comedy. Hard Times in Sugar Town, her second commission with NEAT, followed in July 2021. In December 2022 The Legend of Ol’ Bob Stuff premiered. Her most recent commission Made for You and Me was performed at the Haus der Geschichte Museum in November 2023. 

Her books are Broken In: A Novel in Stories, Tsunami Cowboys, Grounded and The Trail Back Out. Tsunami Cowboys was longlisted for the 2019 Screen Craft Cinematic Book Award. Broken In: A Novel in Stories was a semifinalist for the 2020 Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award and was a Finalist for Greece’s international 2021 Eyelands Book Awards (Short Stories).

The Trail Back Out was Winner of the 2023 San Francisco Book Festival for General Fiction, and was named a Finalist for the 2020 Best Book. It was Award Finalist for Fiction Anthologies by the American Book Fest, and the Independent Author Network 2021 IAN Book of the Year Award (Short Story Collection). It received a Red Ribbon from the 2021 Wishing Shelf Award and was a Runner-up for the 2021 Top Shelf Award. The title story, The Trail Back Out, was longlisted for the 2021 Screen Craft Cinematic Short Story Award.

All four books are available for purchase in paperback and Kindle. Jadi Campbell’s Author Page.

Jadi served for four years as President of the Writers in Stuttgart… a job she described as akin to herding cats. She can’t imagine a more creative group with whom to write. She blogs about the arts and our world at: www.jadicampbell.com