Jessie Ren Marshall is a fiction writer and an award-winning playwright. Her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Gettysburg Review, The Common, Barrelhouse, The Mid-American Review, The Emerson Review, Night Train, The New York Post, and the Modern Love column of The New York Times. Her writing has been supported by the Millay Colony, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She has an MFA from NYU and is working on a novel about multiracial half-sisters that takes place in Hawaiʻi.