Jill BronfmanJill Bronfman was one of 12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025, was the Barnes & Noble, National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, was shortlisted for the 2025 Moon Meridian Novella Prize, was the Word's Faire, Runner-Up for the Spring Short Fiction Contest 2025, placed second in the Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest, placed second in the Westword Craft & Connection short fiction contest, was named a semi-finalist for both the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and The Waking's Flash Prose Prize, and received an honorable mention in the Storm Cellar Force Majeure Flash Contest. Her poetry chapbook, "Second Cities," will be published in 2026. Her work has been accepted for publication in five collections and over thirty literary journals. She has performed in The Bay Area Book Festival, Poets in the Parks, The Basement Series, Page Street, Washington Square Annual Livestream, and LitQuake, and had her story about a middle-aged robot produced as a podcast by Ripples in Space. She has been accepted to residencies and conferences including La Baldi, Looking Glass, Elk River, Squam, WonderMountain, and LitCamp. She is an upper-tier reader for The Masters Review. She volunteers with 826 Valencia and ScholarMatch helping kids write poetry and teens write their personal essays for college applications. She has an MFA from Pacific University and teaches writing at all levels from graduate to kids. Read More Read Less