Jill Bronfman

Jill Bronfman’s work won the Irish Writers Centre’s Novel Fair 2025, placed second in the Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest, was named a semi-finalist for both the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and The Waking’s Flash Prose Prize, and received an honorable mention in the Storm Cellar Force Majeure Flash Contest. She won the Barnes and Noble essay contest. Her work has been accepted for publication in the collections: Universe in a Bottle and Other Tales, A Tribute to Lord Byron, It Can’t Happen Here, The WD Shakespeare Anthology, and “The Very Edge,” a book of poems in English, Spanish, and French. Her work has also been accepted in Half and One, Washington Square Review, Atticus Review, Storm Cellar, High Shelf, Iris Literary Journal, Sad Girls Club, Qwerty, New Plains Review, Inlandia, Rougarou, Ruminate Magazine, The Write Launch, The Decadent Review, The Halcyone, 82 Review, The Passed Note, Storgy, Verbal, Kallisto Gaia, Main Street Rag, High Desert, Carcosa, Genre: Urban Arts, Ripples in Space, Mothers Always Write, Talking Writing, Coffin Bell Journal, Flock, Wanderlust Journal, and Quiet Lightning. She has performed her work in The Bay Area Book Festival, Poets in the Parks, The Basement Series, Page Street, and LitQuake, and had her story about a middle-aged robot produced as a podcast by Ripples in Space. She is a reader for The Masters Review, and a Poet-Teacher for California Poets in the Schools. She has a J.D., and M.A., and  is completing her MFA in Fiction at Pacific University.