Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction, the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. DuBois’s third novel, The Spectators, was published in spring 2019.

Reading List

Racing the Train

Jennifer duBois  | 
Issue 68.2 Spring 2019

Was it weird we went?” says Becca, on our way back from the funeral. “Weird to who?” “Her grandmother called her her,” says Becca. “I mean, she called him Cat.” “They call that a deadname,” I say knowledgeably. “In the trans community?” “How do you know that?” “From the internet.” Off the highway, I’m already […]