Jenessa Abrams is a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellow and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in fiction and literary translation. Her writing has been published in Tin House, BOMB Magazine, The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Recently, she earned a subsequent graduate degree in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.