Jenny Hollowell is the author of the novel "Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe. "Her short fiction has appeared in "Glimmer Train", "Scheherezade", and the anthology "New Sudden Fiction", and was named a distinguished story by Best American Short Stories. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction and recipient of the Balch Short Story Award. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.