Acts of Contrition (36 page)

Photo © MARTY SHOUP, 2014

A NATIVE OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA,
Jennifer Handford now lives in the Washington, DC, area with her husband and three children. One of three first-place finalists in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2010, she published her first novel,
Daughters for a Time,
in 2012.
People
magazine hailed it as “a wrenching, resonant debut about infertility, cancer and adoption. Grab your hankies.”

Jennifer is a professor of writing at American University.