Jill Bronfman

Jill Bronfman writes about the future of humanity. Her novel Thanks for Meeting Me Here was the winner of the 2026 Keepers of the Fire Prize for Fiction from Raven Chronicles Press and was a finalist for the Eyelands Book Award. Among other awards for her fiction, essays, and poetry, Bronfman was one of 12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025 and she was a Barnes & Noble National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner.

Her poetry chapbook, “Second Cities,” will be published in 2026. Her work has been accepted for publication in five collections and over thirty literary journals. She has performed in The Bay Area Book Festival, Poets in the Parks, The Basement Series, Page Street, Washington Square Annual Livestream, and LitQuake. Her story about a middle-aged robot was produced as a podcast by Ripples in Space. She has been accepted to several residencies and conferences, including La Baldi, Buinho, Looking Glass, Elk River, Squam, WonderMountain, and LitCamp. 

Bronfman is an upper-tier reader for The Masters Review. She also volunteers with 826 Valencia and ScholarMatch helping kids write poetry and teens write their personal essays for college applications. She has an MFA from Pacific University and teaches writing at all levels from graduate to kids.