Jenessa Abrams

Jenessa Abrams is a writer, literary translator, and practitioner of Narrative Medicine. Her fiction, literary criticism, and creative non-fiction has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Tin House, Catapult, Guernica, Electric Literature, Eater, The Rumpus, BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, and anthologies including Off Assignment’s Letter to a Stranger (Algonquin Books, 2022). She has been awarded fellowships and grants from MacDowell, where she was named the Nadya Aisenberg Fellow, The New York Public Library, where she was named a Shoichi Noma Scholar, the Ucross Foundation, the Norman Mailer Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in fiction and literary translation. Recently, she earned a Master of Science degree in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She now teaches writing in the program and at Catapult. http://www.jenessaabrams.com