Jessica Francis Kane

JESSICA FRANCIS KANE grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Yale University. Her first collection of stories, Bending Heaven, was published by Counterpoint in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. Her stories have been broadcast on BBC radio and have appeared in a number of publications, including Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, The Missouri Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her essays and humor pieces have appeared in Babble, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and The Morning News, for which she is a contributing writer. She was the recipient of the 2001 Lawrence Foundation Prize and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the VCCA. She currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her family.