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Jenny Offill

Jenny Offill is an American author born in Massachusetts. Her first novel Last Things was published in 1999 was a New York Times Notable book and a finalist for the L.A Times First Book Award.

She is also the co-editor with Elissa Schappell of two anthologies of essays and the author of several children's books She teaches in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University and Queens University.


“Where did all the words go?" I asked."They just wasted away," my mom explained, " like a leg you never walk on.”
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“You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.”
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