JR Fenn is from the Central Appalachians and has since lived all over the world. Her writing has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, DIAGRAM, PANK, Versal, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, among other places. A Tin House alum whose work has been supported by Disquiet International, the Key West Literary Seminar, Writing by Writers, and the Orion Environmental Writers' Workshop, she holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an MFA in Fiction from Syracuse University. JR lives in Rochester, New York with her family.

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And I saw, as though in a flash, some shared design between bee and flower, as the bee’s mandible touched itself to the mound of the columbine pistil. Intuition is a wonderful and terrible thing, a foreknowledge that frightens in its accuracy.