Jen SilvermanJen Silverman is a New York-based writer and playwright. She is the author of the debut novel We Play Ourselves and the story collection The Island Dwellers (Random House) which was longlisted for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Additional work has apeared in Vogue, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, The Gettysburg Review, The Baffler, LitHub, and elsewhere. Jen's plays have been produced across the United States and internationally. Jen is a three-time MacDowell Colony fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and the recipient of an EA Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fellowship, the Yale Drama Series Award, and a Playwrights of New York Fellowship. Jen also writes for TV and film. Read More Read Less