Jennifer duBois is the author of the novels The Last Language (Milkweed, 2023); A Partial History of Lost Causes, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and winner of the 2013 Northern California Book Award for Best Fiction; Cartwheel, winner of the Housatonic Book Award for fiction; and The Spectators. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of Tufts University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was awarded the Whiting Award, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. DuBois teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University and lives in Austin.