I trace it back to my mind being blown by John Berryman when I was nineteen.' 'I have always liked compressed and fragmentary forms. Offill's short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature and Significant Objects. She is also the co-editor with Elissa Schappell of two anthologies of essays and the author of several children's books. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review. In 2016 Offill was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. of Speculation has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize in the UK, the Pen/Faulkner Award and the L.A. of Speculation, was published in January 2014 and was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review. It was a New York Times Notable book and a finalist for the L.A Times First Book Award. Offill's first novel, Last Things, was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the UK by Bloomsbury.

Jenny Offill, to Ellen Birkett Morris Career Writing My big influence there was Gilbert Sorrentino.' Later, I got a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. All three were great mentors to me as a young writer. 'I went to UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate and I studied with Doris Betts, Jill McCorkle and Robert Kirkpatrick among others. After graduating, she worked a number of odd jobs: waitress, bartender, caterer, cashier, medical transcriber, fact-checker, and ghost-writer. She spent her childhood years in various American states, including Massachusetts, California, Indiana, and North Carolina, where she attended high school and received a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later, at Stanford University, was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Jenny Offill is the only child of two private-school English teachers. of Speculation was named one of 'The 10 Best Books of 2014' by The New York Times Book Review. Jenny Offill (born 1968) is an American novelist and editor.

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