Jennifer Howard was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She lives there now with her husband, Mark Trainer, and their two children. A former staffer at The New York Review of Books and a former contributing editor of The Washington Post, she's now a staff writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where she writes about the humanities. (Please note that the opinions expressed on this site are her own.) She's contributed reviews, essays and features to The Washington Post, The Boston Review, Slate, Salon, New York Magazine and other publications. Her fiction has appeared in VQR and The Blue Moon Review and has been anthologized in DC Noir (Akashic Books, 2006).

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