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Authors - Jessica Francis Kane

Jessica Francis Kane is the author of the story collection "Bending Heaven" (Counterpoint/Chatto & Windus). The New York Times Book Review praised it as "that rarest of debut collections: grounded but thoughtful, learned without being pretentious. Jessica Francis Kane's stories take place in what feels like Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro country -- they smartly uncork the heartache, panic and frustration of characters caught in situations that expose their vulnerability."

Her stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and been published by McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Missouri Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is also a contributing writer to The Morning News.

A recipient of the 2001 Lawrence Foundation Prize, Kane has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the VCCA.

She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her family.