Jenny Cheng’s first book, Invocation, was published by New Michigan Press, and was described by Mary Ruefle as “a voicing of the voiceless that is stunningly magical.” Her latest book, House A, won the Omnidawn Book Prize, judged by Claudia Rankine, who noted in selecting the book that “not since...Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities have I encountered such attention to the construction of love and love’s capacity to transform unimagined locations.”

Jenny’s work can be found regularly in journals such as Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, Tin House, the Normal School, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, as well as the Harold Taylor Award, the Ann Fields Award, and the Mid-American Fineline Prize, Jenny is a founding editor of Drop Leaf Press.

“My time in the Nonfiction Writing Program introduced me to the world of the essay, which is to say that it introduced me to books that changed me and have stayed with me. At Iowa I recognized that bad writing can and will come from a good essay, but also that ‘bad' and ‘good' are somewhat malleable and that this is where revision and confidence must balance each other.”