Jean Harfenist Biography
Jean Harfenist's first book, A Brief History of The Flood was a Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the
Year. She was named a finalist for
the Katherine Anne Porter Nimrod/Hartman Award, the Kirkwood Literary Prize, the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Barcelona Review,
Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, Crazyhorse, Sonora Review, Wisconsin Review, The Sun, and the Cream City Review. She is a native of Minnesota, a graduate of New York University, and now lives in Santa Barbara with her husband.
This biography was last updated on 12/04/2010.
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