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Jennifer Close

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Jennifer Close is the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses and The Smart One. Her new novel, The Hopefuls, will be out in July 2016. Born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, she is a graduate of Boston College and received her MFA in Fiction Writing from the New School in 2005. She worked in New York in magazines for many years. She now lives in Washington, DC, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University.

Lisa Hsiao Chen

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Born in Taipei, Lisa Hsiao Chen received a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, and was previously an emerging fiction fellow at the Center for Fiction and a resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her poetry collection Mouth was published by Kaya Press in 2007.