Jennifer Solheim is a writer, teacher, and critic. She is the author of the The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture (Liverpool University Press, 2018), and her fiction and essays have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Confrontation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Pinch, and Poets & Writers. One of her stories in BLR was performed at their Page to Stage series at the NYU Langone School. She was also bassist, singer, and songwriter in several Chicago indie punk bands. She holds a PhD in French from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She currently teaches at the University of Illinois—Chicago, where she serves as an Honors College Faculty Fellow. She is also Associate Director of the BookEnds program at Southampton Arts of Stony Brook University,