Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill (born in 1968) is an American author born in Massachusetts and raised in California and North Carolina. Her stories have appeared in Story, Gettysburg Review, The Black Warrior Review, and Boulevard. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 1991 to 1993.

Offill's first novel Last Things was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (ISBN 0-374-18405-4), Delta (paperback, ISBN 0-385-33495-8) and in the UK by Bloomsbury (ISBN 0-7475-4482-4; paperback 2000, ISBN 0-7475-4598-7).

She is the co-editor and contributing author of the anthology "The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away," published in 2005 by Doubleday (ISBN 0-385-51186-8).[1] and "Money Changes Everything" published in 2007. A children's book,"17 Things I'm Not Allowed To Do Anymore", illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, was published in 2007.

She currently lives in Brooklyn New York and teaches in the MFA program at Brooklyn College.