![]() Jenny Offill, to Ellen Birkett Morris Career Writing My big influence there was Gilbert Sorrentino." Later, I got a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. All three were great mentors to me as a young writer. "I went to UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate and I studied with Doris Betts, Jill McCorkle and Robert Kirkpatrick among others. After graduating, she worked a number of odd jobs: waitress, bartender, caterer, cashier, medical transcriber, fact-checker, and ghost-writer. She spent her childhood years in various American states, including Massachusetts, California, Indiana, and North Carolina, where she attended high school and received a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later, at Stanford University, was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Jenny Offill is the only child of two private-school English teachers. ![]() ![]() of Speculation was named one of "The 10 Best Books of 2014" by The New York Times Book Review. Jenny Offill (born 1968) is an American novelist and editor. ![]()
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