Jean Thompson is a novelist and short story writer. Her works include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart,The Humanity Project, The Year We Left Home, City Boy, Wide Blue Yonder,The Woman Driver, and My Wisdom and the short story collections TheWitch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who DoYou Love (a National Book Award finalist), Little Face and Other Stories, and The Gasoline Wars. Thompson’s short fiction has been published in many magazines and journals, including the New Yorker, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The PushcartPrize. Thompson has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and other colleges and universities. She lives in Urbana, Illinois.
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