Jennifer Galvão is the 2025-2026 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her first novel MARIA, MARIA is forthcoming with Random House.

A graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, Jen is the recipient of the 2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fellowship in Fiction.

Her short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Masters Review.