Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writers Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction. Jennifer earned a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop before completing a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Missouri Review, Salon, The Kenyon Review, Cosmopolitan, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, and has been anthologized in Imaginary Oklahoma, Byliner Originals Esquire Four and Narrative 4s How To Be A Man project. A native of western Massachusetts, Jennifer currently teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.