Jennifer Natalya Fink | |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | New York University (PhD) Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) |
| Notable awards | Dana Award (1997) |
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Jennifer Natalya Fink is an American author working in experimental feminist and queer fiction. She is best known for her novels Burn, [1] V, and The Mikvah Queen, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Her novel, Bhopal Dance (2018), won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize in 2017. [2]
Fink holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University and an MFA in Performance from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago. [3]
She teaches creative writing at Georgetown University. [4]
She is also the founder and director of The Gorilla Press, a non-profit organization that promotes children's literacy through bookmaking workshops.
In 2009, she was the US judge for the Caine Prize for African Literature. [5]
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