Jenny D. Williams

Jenny has worn a number of hats in her twenty-nine years, some with more exotic feathers than others. She played on a national championship–winning soccer team until college, when she traded cleats for craft as a student of English and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Upon graduation, Jenny worked for a year in San Francisco at the independent book publisher Berrett-Koehler.

In 2005, she left the U.S. on a one-way ticket to Africa. She spent the next two and a half years traveling, writing, and working in countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Central America. Her time abroad included six months as a volunteer in Uganda and South Sudan. She also became involved in Ethical Traveler as a writer and news editor, and in India she made her Bollywood debut as a Spanish singer in “U, Me, Aur Hum.”

Jenny moved to New York in 2008 for a writing fellowship with Teachers & Writers Collaborative; she stayed another two years to complete her MFA in fiction at Brooklyn College. She currently lives and writes in Marburg, Germany, where she keeps a photo blog, deutschlandia.

For a complete work history, please contact Jenny for a CV.

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