What Mennonite Girls Are Good For, the debut short story collection from Jennifer Sears, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, judged by the novelist Margot Livesey. Through eleven connected stories, Sears asks how faith influences and informs our lives. Each story is a subtle and nuanced look into a life that spans the globe but is always searching for one thing.
Prior to releasing her debut, Sears MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She currently is an associate professor of English and creative writing at New York City College of Technology/City University of New York where she co-coordinates the Minor in Creative Writing with the poet Robert Ostrom.
Debutiful asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her debut book.
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