Jenn Stroud Rossmann

Jenn Stroud Rossmann is a fiction writer and an engineer. Her first novel, The Place You're Supposed to Laugh, was published in 2018 by 7.13 Books. She writes the essay series An Engineer Reads a Novel at Public Books. Stories have appeared recently in Hobart, X-ray Lit, Cheap POP, JMWW Journal, Literary Orphans, Jellyfish Review, and failbetter, and have garnered multiple Pushcart nominations.

Rossmann earned her BS and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Lafayette College, and previously taught at Harvey Mudd College. She throws right, bats left.