Jeanie Riess is a writer from New Orleans. Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Oxford American, The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic's City Lab. She has worked for a daily newspaper in the Mississippi Delta and a New Orleans alt-weekly called The Gambit. She was a fiction fellow at the University of Montana, where she taught creative writing. She was also a fellow at the Kenyon Review’s Young Writers Workshop in Gambier, Ohio.
She, like many, is “working on a novel,” and she lives mostly in New Orleans with her small child.
maidajriess@gmail[dot]com.