Jill Widner
Jill Widner's fiction has appeared in The Good Men Project, American Short Fiction (web exclusives), where she was the March 2011 featured author; and Short Fiction (University of Plymouth Press, UK). She is the recipient of a 2012 fellowship at the Hawthornden Retreat for Writers. She was shortlisted for both the 2011 and 2012 David T. K. Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Widner is a fiction reader for Narrative Magazine.
Reading List
Ode to Girl with Hand on Barbed Wire
Somewhere between McCook and the grid of rural routes she had traveled to reach the farm, Letty had applied a coat of lipstick. She liked to drive with the window down, her hand pressed flat against the wind. Now her …