76: Jeni McFarland, author of The House of Deep Water

"There tends to be a feeling of who belongs in small towns and if you're an outlier in any way, the town will try to get you to conform." - Jeni McFarland

Jeni McFarland holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston, where she was a fiction editor at Gulf Coast Magazine. She's an alum of Tin House, a 2016 Kimbilio Fellow, and has had short fiction published in Crack the Spine, Forge, and Spry, which nominated her for the storySouth Million Writers Award. She was also a finalist for the 2015 Gertrude Stein Writers Award in Fiction from the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She has lived in Michigan and the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two cats. The House of Deep Water is her first book.

Connect with Jeni on her website, Twitter, and Instagram.

Jeni's book recommendation: Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez (listen to Ivelisse's episode here!)

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