Jennifer Natalya Fink

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Jennifer Natalya Fink
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OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Education New York University (PhD)
Art Institute of Chicago (MFA)
Notable awards Dana Award (1997)
Website
www.jennifernatalyafink.com

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]

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Life

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]

Awards

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Finalist/Nominations

Works

Fiction

Criticism

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