Jennifer Lang’s essays have been published in Under the Sun (nominated for Pushcart Prize), Assay, Ascent, The Citron Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women, among others. Currently, she serves as CNF Editor for the Flexible Persona literary magazine. Since receiving a MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2016, she’s been obsessing over every word in her first memoir from which “An Analphabetic Story of Consonants” is excerpted.