Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett was born and raised in Southern California. She 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. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.

She recently completed her MFA at the University of Michigan, where she is currently a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in fiction.

Learn more at Brit Bennett’s official website.