Jennifer Acker is editor-in-chief of The Common, a new print and online journal, based at Amherst College, featuring literature and images with a strong sense of place. She has an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and her short stories have been published in n+1, Ascent, Dogwood, and Sonora Review. Translations and essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Millions, The New Inquiry, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Acker teaches literature, creative writing, and editing at Amherst College and NYU Abu Dhabi.