Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy’s debut novel, The Other Wife (Riverhead), was included in The New York Times list of “The Summer’s Best Beach Reads.” A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the winner of the 2019 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. Her work has been recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts, and her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, One Story, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Harvard Review, Star Tribune, The Millions, and on the Ploughshares blog. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, Ucross, and Saltonstall. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts.