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Jill Kolongowski is a nonfiction writer and professor living in Northern California. She is the author of a collection of essays called Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me (Ulysses Press, 2017). Other essays are published in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Insider, Brevity, River Teeth, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Jill has received fellowships to attend the DISQUIET International Literary Program, Lit Camp, and the Community of Writers. Her essays have won Sundog Lit’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket. She is at work on a new essay collection about how the anxiety of being a young woman turned into the anxiety of being a mother, and how we survive the terror and the joy.