Jennifer Acker

Jennifer Acker is the author of the debut novel The Limits of the World, and she is the founder and editor in chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, the Yale Review, Off Assignment, and Ploughshares, among other publications. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband. For more information, visit www.jenniferacker.com.