Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award and has been named a National [Book Foundation's 5 Under 35] honoree.

Life and work

Born in Northampton, MA in 1983, duBois is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was the winner of the Housatonic Book Award and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2018, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her third novel, The Spectators.
Her short stories, novel excerpts, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Narrative, Lapham’s Quarterly, ''American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Salon, Cosmopolitan, ZYZZYVA'', and elsewhere.
duBois is a permanent member of the faculty at Texas State University, where she teaches Fiction in the Creative Writing Department. She lives in Austin, Texas.