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Photograph \u00a9 Beowulf Sheehan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Jennifer Steil is\u00a0a British-American writer living in France\u00a0with her husband and teenage daughter after many years in Yemen,\u00a0Bolivia, England, and Uzbekistan. She\u2019s\u00a0the author of\u00a0the novel\u00a0Exile Music,\u00a0<\/em>which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards. It also won the Multicultural and Historical International Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award.\u00a0Previous books include\u00a0the novel\u00a0The Ambassador\u2019s Wife<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0the memoir\u00a0The Woman Who Fell From the Sky.\u00a0<\/em>She is also an essayist, short story writer, freelance book editor, journalist, writing coach, and mentor.\u00a0Her work has appeared in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0Mslexia\u2019s\u00a0Best Women\u2019s Short Fiction 2023,\u00a0New Orleans Review<\/em>,\u00a0Saranac Review<\/em>,\u00a0Kenyon Review<\/em>,\u00a0World Policy Journal<\/em>,\u00a0Gay & Lesbian Review<\/em>,\u00a0Ninth Letter<\/em>, the Bournemouth Writing Prize Anthology 2025<\/em>, Action, Spectacle<\/em>,\u00a0Mystery Weekly Magazine<\/em>, The Week<\/em>,\u00a0Time<\/em>,\u00a0Life<\/em>,\u00a0Peauxdunque Review<\/em>,\u00a0The Washington Times<\/em>,\u00a0Vogue UK<\/em>,\u00a0Die Welt<\/em>, the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>, and elsewhere. When not writing or reading, she loves getting lost in the streets of Paris or in the Cevennes mountains, as well as theater, yoga, ballet, and swimming\u2014although her favorite thing is talking about books and life with her husband and daughter. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham in the UK.\u00a0You can read her weekly column, Liminal<\/em>, here: https:\/\/jennifersteil.substack.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Jennifer Steil’s novel, The Underside<\/em>, in 2028.

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Jennifer Steil is\u00a0a British-American writer living in France\u00a0with her husband and teenage daughter after many years in Yemen,\u00a0Bolivia, England, and Uzbekistan. She\u2019s\u00a0the author of\u00a0the novel\u00a0Exile Music,\u00a0which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards. It also won the Multicultural and Historical International Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-14571","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9DpGh-3N1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13781,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/heather-bell-adams-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":14571,"position":0},"title":"Heather Bell Adams","author":"Jaynie","date":"August 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Finalist for 2024 Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas I grew up in western North Carolina hearing tall tales from my grandfather Ward. 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