Jean Thompson's latest novel is
The Poet's House

(Coming This Summer from Algonquin Books)

Jean Thompson is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including the National Book Award finalist Who Do You Love, the New York Times bestseller The Year We Left Home, and the New York Times Notable Book Wide Blue Yonder. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, as well as dozens of other magazines, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. She has been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, among other accolades, and has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Reed College, Northwestern University, and many other colleges and universities.

"If there are 'Jean Thompson characters,' they're us, and never have we been so articulate and worthy of compassion. These stories confirm that no one is beneath her interest, or beyond her sure and seemingly limitless reach."

-- David Sedaris

"Jean Thompson is a national treasure.  She's the kind of  writer who can make you laugh and cry at the same time, a consummate prose stylist whose work is full of insight and wisdom and a deadly keen eye for the foibles and self-deceptions of her characters."

-- Dan Choan

"Her stories linger and seep into your dreams."

-- Bernard Cooper, author of The Bill from My Father