JAMILA MINNICKS is the author of Moonrise Over New Jessup: A Novel (Algonquin Books), which won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her short stories have been published in CRAFT, The Write Launch, and The Silent World in Her Vase, and elsewhere, and her piece Politics of Distraction was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Howard University School of Law, and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, D.C.