Jessica Hendry Nelson grew up in Philadelphia and lives in Burlington, Vermont. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, PANK and elsewhere. Her essay "The Whitest Winter Light" (Alligator Juniper, 2011) was selected as a Notable essay in the 2012 Best American Essays collection. She attended the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in August 2012 where she co-founded the absurd Biffin's Bridge Reading Series with a bunch of equally disturbed writers whom she loves.
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