Jess deCourcy Hinds was the 2014-15 winner of the Pen Parentis fiction fellowship, and runner up in the 2016 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize judged by Lauren Groff. Her fiction is forthcoming in Quarterly West and has appeared in Brain Child, and nonfiction in Ms., the New York Times, Newsweek, and others. She is the library director of Bard HS Early College Queens and runs an author series. Learn more at jessdecourcyhinds.com.