Jessi Jezewska Stevens is the author of the novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, as well as the forthcoming story collection Ghost Pains (March 2024, And Other Stories). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, Foreign Policy, The Paris Review, The New Yorker online, The Nation, 4Columns, and elsewhere, and has received support from the German-American Fulbright Association. She teaches fiction at Columbia University in New York.