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Jess Arndt is a transgenre writer seeking protuberant forms. Their story collection, Large Animals, (CATAPULT 2017 / CIPHER 2020), was shortlisted for the California Book Prize and longlisted for The Story Prize, and their writing has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Granta, LARB, Lithub, Fence, BOMB, Night Papers, and in collaborations with The Knife's Shaking the Habitual. Arndt received an MFA at Bard College (2007) and is a co-founder of the Brooklyn-based prose experiment, New Herring Press. They live off-grid in WA State and have been teaching endogenous writing at University of Idaho and at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.