Jennifer Howard is a writer and journalist and the author of CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY, which Kirkus Reviews called "quick-witted and insightful... A keen assessment of one of society’s secret shames and its little-understood consequences." Jen's work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the TLS, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in DC NOIR (edited by George Pelecanos), VQR, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC with her family.