Jenny Offill
September 26 at 7PM
Muskie 201

Jenny Offill is the critically-acclaimed author of three books of fiction, including Dept. of Speculation (Granta Books 2014), a New York Times Top 10 Best Books of 2014. Her most recent book, Weather: A Novel (Knopf 2020), was lauded by the Boston Globe as “tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible.” Offill was the subject of a February 2020 feature in the New York Times Magazine, “How to Write Fiction when the Planet is Falling Apart.” Honors include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Film Academy Fellowship in Fiction, and resident fellowships at Macdowell Colony, Slovenian PEN Centre, and Yaddo. Offill has taught widely in MFA programs, and currently is the visiting writer at Bard College.