Jill Kandel

Jill Kandel’s essays have been published in The Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Pinch, and Brevity. Her work has been anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing 2012 (Penguin Books) and in Becoming: What Makes a Woman (U. of Nebraska Press). Her first book, So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village, (Autumn House Press, 2015) won both the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize and the Sarton Women’s Literary Award. Her second book, The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir, (NDSU Press, 2022) was chosen by the Library of Congress as a 2024 Great Reads Book. Kandel lives with her husband in Minnesota.

Jill Kandel's Autumn House Books