Cheyenne Mann
Cheyenne Mann is a writer and artist from Iowa. Their work explores loneliness, grief, inheritance, existential terror, and human tenderness through deep interiority, dark humor, and total emotional earnesty amid deadpan absurdism. They can’t stop writing about being seen vs. being known.
Cheyenne is a two-time winner of the Iowa Chapbook Prize (2021, 2022), a recipient of three Literary Arts departmental awards from Brown University (2025, 2026, 2026), and the second-place winner of the 2025 Frontier Poetry Myths and Fables Prize. They were nominated by Chestnut Review for the 2026 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for their debut short story, SaintDogfish97. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Offing, Frontier Poetry, The Forge, and elsewhere.
When they’re not napping with their cat, Fig, they can be found getting knocked over by waves at the beach, or getting knocked over by their teammates at rugby practice.
Cheyenne recieved a BA with honors in English and Creative Writing (publishing track) and a minor in Chemistry from the University of Iowa in 2023. Cheyenne received their MFA in Literary Arts (fiction) from Brown University in 2026, and is is currently a PhD student in Literary Arts (fiction) at the University of Denver.
You can find Cheyenne on Instagram (@cheyennewrites), on twitter (@NotCheyenneMann), and on bluesky (@CheyenneMann).