Jen is the author of Mannequin and Wife (LSU Press), a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee, and Tales the Devil Told Me (Press 53), finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Single-Author Story Collection. Locus has called Jen's work "witty and dark, extravagant and savage," and according to Library Journal, she is "a writer to watch." Her fiction has won numerous prizes, including the 2021 Porter Fund Literary Prize, and has appeared in One Story, The Iowa Review, Lit Hub, The Offing, Crazyhorse, Best Small Fictions, and many others. Jen lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.