Jenn Alandy Trahan earned her BA from the University of California, Irvine, and her MA and MFA from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction brought Jenn to Stanford University, where she continues to teach as a Jones Lecturer. Jenn’s work has also been supported by the Community of Writers, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Laugarvatn, Iceland, Plympton and The Writer’s Block Downtown fellowships in Las Vegas, Nevada, The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writer-in-Residence Program in Lenox, Massachusetts, Cultivate’s La Baldi Residency in Montegiovi, Italy, and Write On, Door County, in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Her fiction can be found in Permafrost, Blue Mesa Review, Harper’s, One Story, and The Best American Short Stories.
