Jennifer Steil is a British-American writer living in France with her husband and teenage daughter after many years in Yemen, Bolivia, England, and Uzbekistan. She’s the author of the novel Exile Music, which won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards. It also won the Multicultural and Historical International Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. Previous books include the novel The Ambassador’s Wife and the memoir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. She is also an essayist, short story writer, freelance book editor, journalist, writing coach, and mentor. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Mslexia’s Best Women’s Short Fiction 2023, New Orleans Review, Saranac Review, Kenyon Review, World Policy Journal, Gay & Lesbian Review, Ninth Letter, the Bournemouth Writing Prize Anthology 2025, Action, Spectacle, Mystery Weekly Magazine, The Week, Time, Life, Peauxdunque Review, The Washington Times, Vogue UK, Die Welt, the New York Post, and elsewhere. When not writing or reading, she loves getting lost in the streets of Paris or in the Cevennes mountains, as well as theater, yoga, ballet, and swimming—although her favorite thing is talking about books and life with her husband and daughter. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham in the UK. You can read her weekly column, Liminal, here: https://jennifersteil.substack.com/
Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Jennifer Steil’s novel, The Underside, in 2028.
