Jennifer Sears is the author of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, winner of the 2025 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award judged by the novelist Margot Livesey.
She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 2024 NeMLA Fiction Book Award. Her stories and essays have been cited in Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
She is Professor of English and creative writing at New York City College of Technology/City University of New York where she is the 2026 Scholar on Campus. She is on the Executive Committee of the Columbia Fiction Foundry. She writes a sometimes newsletter about reading, writing, and teaching writing: Si Omnia Ficta…if all is fiction. She could talk forever about how much she loves Brooklyn.
