Jennifer duBois was born in Northampton, MA in 1983. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, duBois' work has appeared in <em>Playboy</em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, <em>The Missouri Review</em>, <em>The Kenyon Review</em>, <em>Narrative</em> and elsewhere. Her first novel, <em>A Partial History of Lost Causes</em>, was published by The Dial Press in 2012, and was honored by the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 program. In her spare time, duBois enjoys reading tales of disaster on Everest and smugly reminding everyone that she has a subscription to the <em>Economist</em>.<br/>Website: www.jennifer-dubois.com<br/>Twitter: @jennifer_dubois