JP Solheim
Oak Park, IL
Fiction
Jennifer Solheim (she/her) is a fiction writer, teacher, and literary critic. She is the author of the The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture (Liverpool University Press, 2018), and her fiction and essays have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Confrontation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, MQR: Mixtape, The Pinch, and Poets & Writers. One of her stories in BLR was performed at their Page to Stage series at the NYU Langone School. She was also bassist, singer, and songwriter in several Chicago indie punk bands. She holds a PhD in French from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Writing and Literature (fiction) from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Université de Paris VII, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as writing centers across the United States. She serves as the Associate Director of the BookEnds novel revision fellowship at The Lichtenstein Center of Stony Brook University, where she also teaches in the Creative Writing and Literature MFA Program.