Jessica Hollander is the author of the story collection In These Times the Home is a Tired Place, which won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and the fiction chapbook Mythical Places, published by Sonder Press. Her short fiction has been published in over sixty literary journals, including The Georgia Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, West Branch, WebConjunctions, and Sonora Review. She received her BA from the University of Michigan and her MFA from the University of Alabama, and she has taught fiction as a professor at the University of Nebraska in Kearney and San Jose State University. She lives near Chicago with her family.