Jeannine Ouellette is the author of The Part That Burns, a memoir in fragments hailed by Dorothy Allison as a "book she loves,"  praised by Joyce Carol Oates as compelling, poetic, and vivid, granted a starred review by Kirkus, selected as a book to read in 2021 by The Rumpus, and lauded by Melissa Febos, Rene Denfeld, Gina Frangello, and more. Jeannine's work has appeared in Calyx, Narrative, North American Review, Masters Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Writer’s Chronicle, among others, and in several anthologies including Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men and Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Her work has been supported by Millay Colony for the Arts and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts.  She teaches writing through the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and Elephant Rock, an independent creative writing program she founded in 2012. She is working on her first novel.