Jill Widner's fiction has appeared recently in Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, an anthology edited by Clifford Garstang (Press 53); The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal; Short Fiction (University of Plymouth Press, UK); and Shenandoah. She has been the recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland; an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship; an Artist Trust (GAP) Project Grant; and she has been selected for residencies at VCCA-France, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she lives and teaches in Yakima, Washington.