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Jennifer Galvão is a writer and teacher from New York State.

Jen’s debut novel MARIA, MARIA is forthcoming in Spring 2027 with Random House (US) and Hutchinson Heinemann (UK).

A graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, Jen is the recipient of the 2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fellowship in Fiction and the 2025-2026 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.