Brit Bennett
Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. At the age of just 25, Brit Bennett already has a remarkable platform as one of the most important voices of her generation. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, NPR and Jezebel.