Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today.

Jennifer Acker

Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common, and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington PostLiterary Hubn+1GuernicaThe Yale ReviewOff Assignment, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband.

Articles

Sunil and Amy are just trying to find a Cambridge apartment they can afford when a call from Nairobi changes everything.
Jennifer Acker
Custom WordPress Development by Kevinleary.net

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster—with work by Jorie Graham, Ilya Kaminsky, Solmaz Sharif, Juan Felipe Herrera, and much more.

Newsletter subscribers get our latest essays, reading lists, and exclusive editorial content (plus 10% off our entire store).

Get a free copy of
Poems for Political Disaster!

Poems-for-Political-Disaster-Twitter-1536x864

For National Poetry Month, sign up for our newsletter and get a digital copy of our out-of-print chapbook Poems for Political Disaster.