Jennifer Solheim

Location Oak Park, IL
Occupation French scholar, literary translator, fiction writer
Website http://www.jennifersolheim.com

About Me

I have had short stories published in Conclave: A Journal of Character and Confrontation Magazine, and I have had essays published in Poets & Writers at Fiction Writers Review.

Why do you write?

Any favorite authors? Books?

in English:
Nicholson Baker, Djuna Barnes, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Roald Dahl, Annie Dillard, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Safran Foer, Aleksandar Hemon, Siri Hustvedt, Elizabeth McCracken, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Anaïs Nin, Flannery O'Connor, Ann Patchett, Tom Waits' body of work from 1982 forward, Virginia Woolf

in French:
Evelyne Accad, Charles Baudelaire, Assia Djebar, Nancy Huston, Kateb Yacine, Patrick Modiano, Wajdi Mouawad, Marjane Satrapi, Leïla Sebbar, Yolaine Simha

in translation:
Roberto Bolaño, Milan Kundera

And many more, of course.