About

Jenny Offill is the author of the novel, Last Things, which was chosen as a notable or best book of the year by the New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Guardian (U.K.). It was also a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Story, Boulevard, Significant Objects and Electric Literature among other places. She is the co-editor, with Elissa Schappell, of two anthologies of essays, The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. Her children’s books include 17 Things I’m Not Allowed To Do Anymore and its sequel 13 Experiments That Failed which is forthcoming in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the writing programs at Brooklyn College and Columbia University.