Jennifer duBois: Reading

Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language. Her first novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and winner of the California Book Award for First Work of Fiction. Soon after its publication, duBois received a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the winner of the Housatonic Book Award. And her third novel, The Spectators, was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Her latest novel, The Last Language, was a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award and was named a Vox Best Book of 2023. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Stanford University Stegner Fellowship, duBois teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University. She lives in Austin.

https://www.jennifer-dubois.com/about

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Thursday, February 12, 2026 8:00pm to 9:00pm
Dey House
Frank Conroy Reading Room
507 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
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