Janet Desaulniers is the recipient of literary fellowships from the James A. Michener/Copernicus Society, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council, along with a Pushcart Prize and a Transatlantic Review award for fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous literary publications, including the New Yorker, TriQuarterly, the North American Review, and Ploughshares. She currently teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Evanston.

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