Jenea Havener is a Lawrence native with a creative writing and history degree from KU. She has been published in Narrative Magazine and was a finalist in Narrative's 2022 spring contest for another piece which will be published this year. She also received a fellowship to the Writing By Writers 2022 Tomales Bay Workshop, began the MFA program at the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2023, and won the 2023 Langston Hughes Award for fiction. She loves helping others find their writing voice and the confidence to create.