Jennifer Vanderbes

Jennifer Vanderbes received her B.A. in English Literature from Yale and
her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Her first novel, Easter Island, was named a "best book of 2003" by the
Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor and was translated into 16
languages. Her second novel, Strangers at the Feast, will be published by
Scribner in August 2010.

She has taught creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and
Columbia University's M.F.A. Program, and at the Colgate Summer Writers'
Conference.

Her numerous awards and fellowships include a Guggenheim Fellowship
and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.