Jessi Jezewska Stevens holds a BA in mathematics from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Paris Review, Tin House, Guernica, BOMB and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Exhibition of Persephone Q, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US in 2020. She lives in New York, where she teaches fiction.