Jessie van Eerden is the author of two novels, Glorybound (WordFarm, 2012), winner of Foreword Reviews 2012 Editor’s Choice Fiction Prize, and My Radio Radio (Vandalia Press, 2016); she’s also the author of the essay collection The Long Weeping (Orison Books, 2017). Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Image, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. Van Eerden holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa and directs the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College.  

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