Jen Michalski is the author of three novels, three short story collections, and a couplet of novellas. Her latest novel, All This Can Be True, is forthcoming in 2025 from Keylight Books (Turner Publishing). Her last novel, You’ll Be Fine, was a 2021 Buzzfeed “Best Small Press Book,” a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, and was selected as one of the “Best Books We Read This Year” by the Independent Press Review. Her latest collection of short stories, The Company of Strangers, was a “Best of Baltimore” winner in 2023 and also a top indie press pick at Electric Literature. She’s the editor of the weekly online literary weekly jmww and currently lives in Southern California, although she will always be a Baltimore girl by heart. Visit her at jenmichalski.com