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Jennifer Jacobson's story "Flight" was published in the New Voices section of The Masters Review, 11/30/18.  You can read it here:   https://mastersreview.com/new-voices/   Content warning: suicide, sexual assault.

Jennifer Jacobson was born in Zomba, Malawi and grew up in New York City. She is the Associate Director of the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst where she directs the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. Jennifer also teaches at Smith College’s Young Women’s Writing Workshop. She is completing a novel about forbidden love between an American and a Chinese artist on the eve of the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square. The novel is set in Hangzhou, China, where Jennifer taught in 1989 and witnessed the pro-democracy efforts and protests that brought the city to a standstill. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in Chronogram, jubilat, MotherWriter! and in other journals.