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Jess Silfa is a writer and poet from the South Bronx. They have a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Vanderbilt University. They are currently a Yates Fellow in the English (Creative Writing) Ph.D. program at the University of Cincinnati.

Jess is also an administrator of the MFA Draft Facebook group and has helped students apply for Creative Writing MFA Programs for over a decade. 

 

As a writer, Jess has received a Displaced Artist Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Mae Fellowship, and a Ricardo Salinas Scholarship for Aspen Summer Words. Jess currently serves as President of the Disabled and D/deaf Writers Caucus. They are working on their first novel and are represented by Annie DeWitt at The Shipman Agency

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