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Jen Percy

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Jen Percy is an MFA student at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program where she received an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, ReDivider, The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, Brevity, PANK, Best Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Stanley Foundation, and was a 2009 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

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