Jen Penkethman is a writer and teacher who hails from the South Bay. She received her MFA in fiction writing from the University of Notre Dame in 2010. She is interested in exploring the relationship between writing and mental health. Her other academic interests include experimental fiction, science and society, and French language and literature. She lives in the East Bay with her partner and their cat, and blogs about her interests at her website, JenPenkethman.com.