Jennifer Acker teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship, organizes LitFest, and is the founder and editor in chief of their literary review, The Common. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews can be found in the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, Guernica, Ploughshares, and other well-known publications. Her debut novel, The Limits of the World, was dubbed an “elegant saga” by Publishers Weekly.