Jennifer De Leon is the winner of the 2011 Fourth Genre Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. Her work has appeared in Ms., Briar Cliff Review, Poets & Writers, Guernica, The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere. A member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop, she has been awarded scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the editor of the anthology Wise Latina (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), and she is working on a novel.