Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, fiction writer, memoirist, cartoonist, and translator. She was born in Fontainbleau, France, and raised in Washington, D.C., and Cocoa, Florida. She studied writing at Florida State University and graduated with an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. After a year’s teaching at DePauw in Indiana, she moved to Madison to teach creative writing at the University of Wisconsin. She currently divides her time between Madison and Montevideo, Uruguay.
