Jessica Hendry Nelson's memoir in essays, If Only You People Could Follow Directions (Counterpoint Press, February 2014), was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program, the Indies Next List by the American Booksellers' Association, and named a Best Book of 2014 by Kirkus Review. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Columbia Journal, Crab Orchard Review, PANK, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat and elsewhere. Her fiction and nonfiction have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and she had a notable essay listing in Best American Essays 2012. She lives in Burlington, Vermont, where she is a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach and teaches creative writing at Burlington College and in the low-residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She serves as the Managing & Nonfiction Editor of Green Mountains Review. More information at jessicahnelson.com.

Website: jessicahnelson.com

Twitter Username: @jhnelson427

Publications

• If Only You People Could Follow Directions , Counterpoint Press (January 14, 2014)

Employment

• Adjunct Instructor, Creative Writing at Burlington College (August 2013 - )
• Managing and Nonfiction Editor at Green Moutains Review (July 2013 - )
• Faculty Member at University of Nebraska-Omaha, Low-Residency MFA Program (July 2015 - )
• Freelance Editor, Writer, Coach at Self-employed (May 2012 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from University of New Hampshire (May 2006)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College (May 2012)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry