Biography

BA, Anthropology, Amherst College; MFA, Fiction & Literature, Bennington College

Jennifer Acker is the founding editor of The Common, a new print journal based at Amherst College featuring literature and images with a strong sense of place. Her translations and essays have appeared in publications such as Harper’s, the San Francisco Chronicle, The New Inquiry, and Publishers Weekly. In 2011-12, she was a visiting lecturer at Amherst College.