Jenny Hollowell was born in Santa Cruz, California and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied film and photography, and an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction and recipient of the Balch Short Story Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Scheherezade, and the anthology New Sudden Fiction, and was named a distinguished story by Best American Short Stories. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a two-time Fellow at the Ledig House International Writers’ Residency, a two-time Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, and a judge for the 2012 Virginia Screenwriting Competition. Her short fiction has been performed for Selected Shorts at Symphony Space, and she has been a guest on Radiolab and WNYC, as well as a panelist for the Brooklyn Book Festival. She lives in Los Angeles.
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