Jahmae Harris received her M.A. in fiction in 1996. Her thesis was titled Ms. Pamela Smith. Her work has been published in the Painted Bride Quarterly and Fourteen Hills. She has given readings at the Painted Bride Art Center, the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, and New York’s Brooklyn Moon Cafe. She is a member of the Dark Room Collective, and has been a residency fellow at the Breadloaf Writers Conference and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Writers Week at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1998, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for her fiction.