Winner of the 2022 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. JEF Books assistant editor Penelope Gerdes said the following in her encomium for the novel: "When I sat to read The Makings of a Nobody: A Fictmoir, I wasn't certain what exactly I was looking for. Innovative work can quite often follow similar trends; oddly enough, they can be grouped in similarities by exactly how they innovate. Yet this work is inexhaustible...