Jessica Hendry NelsonJESSICA HENDRY NELSON is the author of the memoir If Only You People Could Follow Directions and coauthor (with Sean Prentiss) of the textbook and anthology Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology . Her work as appeared in The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Carolina Quarterly, Columbia Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, PANK, Drunken Boat and elsewhere. She is assistant professor in the MFA program and English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and on faculty in the MFA Program at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She lives in Richmond, Virginia. Read More Read Less