Jill Bronfman’s novel Thanks for Meeting Me Here won the 2026 Keepers of the Fire Prize from Raven Chronicles Press and was a finalist for the Eyelands Book Award. Among other awards for her fiction, essays, and poetry, Bronfman was one of 12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025 and she was a Barnes & Noble National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner. Her poetry chapbook, Second Cities, will be published in 2026. She has an MFA from Pacific University and teaches writing at all levels from graduate to kids.