Jackie Thomas-Kennedy holds a BA in English from Vassar College and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. She was a MacDowell Colony fellow in 2011 and held a 2010–11 writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. The winner of numerous awards for her stories, she writes for many national periodicals, and several of her pieces are available in our Archive. Thomas-Kennedy lives in Massachusetts.