Congratulations to IVC alum Jenn Alandy Trahan who has a story in this year's Best American Short Stories, edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr.
Jenn, who spent a couple years in between her BA and MFA in IVC's fiction workshop building her portfolio, is currently a Jones lecturer at Stanford, where she had previously been awarded a Stegner fellowship.
"They Told Us not to Say This" is an excerpt from her forthcoming book.
Dissent has previously covered Jenn's accomplishments here and here.
Jenn has some nice thing to say about her teachers.
Jenn fits the profile of a "returning student" who did not have a transfer plan because she had already completed her undergraduate work but clearly her time at IVC helped her achieve her impressive academic goals - all on her own timeline as an older returning student. She makes us proud.
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