Jenny Offill is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award); Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award; and Weather. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.