 Beverly Jensen

Beverly Jensen (1953–2003) was an American short story writer whose stories have appeared posthumously in the country's leading literary journals, in the yearly anthology "The Best American Short Stories", the anthology "Sisters" (Paris Press), and the novel-in-stories, "The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay", published by Viking Press in 2010.Jensen wrote her stories based on the lives of her mother, Idella, and aunt, Avis, between 1986 and 2003.