Jennifer Colville holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Utah. She currently works as the director of PorchLight Literary Arts Center in Iowa City and of PromptPress, a publisher of ekphrastic and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her collection of short stories, “Elegies for Uncanny Girls,” was published by Indiana University Press, and her short stories and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Diagram, the Northwestern Review and the Huffington Post. Her essay “White Ink and the Great American Macho” was a Longreads pick of the week, and named a favorite essay of the year by Entropy. Her novel in progress has been supported by a fellowship from the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.