Jennifer is a Detroit-based writer and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Northern Michigan University. Her essays have appeared in Hotel Amerika, Quarter After Eight, saltfront, Hobart, COVEN Berlin, and After Happy Hour Review - among others. Her debut book of creative nonfiction, An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value, is forthcoming from PANK Books. She ​was long listed in the 2020 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards and was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Pleiades Press Short Prose Book Contest. She's taught creative writing to kids in Detroit Public Schools through the organization InsideOut Literary Arts as well as to kids in the juvenile detention system through Youth Arts Alliance. In the winter of 2021 she was a resident at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Rockland, ME.