Jennifer Galvão is a writer from New York State. She was a recipient of the Kenyon Review Fellowship in Fiction and now serves as the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her short fiction has been published in The Rumpus, The Cincinnati Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, and her first novel, Maria, Maria, is forthcoming from Random House 2027.
Visitation
Fall 2025
Introduction
I first came to the word visitation while on a hike with friends in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, exchanging half smiles with the other leaf peepers we passed, not yet aware […]
Why We Chose It
Winter 2024
Why We Chose It: “Prolonged Exposure” by Lacey Jones
“Prolonged Exposure” by Lacey Jones appears in the Winter 2024 issue of The Kenyon Review. Lacey Jones’s “Prolonged Exposure”begins with a descent into hell. Samantha commutes downhill for twenty minutes, […]