The short story:

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times, Jane, Print, New York, Nylon, Radar, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Salon, Plenty, Nextbook, Time Out NY, eWeek, and others. Her fiction has been published by Nerve, Five Chapters, Smokelong Quarterly, 3: AM Magazine, and Spork. She recently appeared in the anthologies Sex for America, Future Misbehavior and Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, and has an essay forthcoming in Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts Her debut collection of stories, INSTANT LOVE, was published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books in June 2006. THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008, and is now available in paperback. A third book, THE MELTING SEASON, will be published by Riverhead Books in the future. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

The long version:

Jami believes in the power and importance of independent publishing and self-publication, whether online or in print. She has been published by a number of zines, and her chapbook, DELI LIFE, was published by Austin upstart So New Media in 2003. INSTANT LOVE was originally a zine series which she sold primarily on her website, whatever-whenever.net. Her site has been in existence in various forms since 1998.

Jami has lived in the following cities: Buffalo Grove, IL (where she established herself amongst her peers as "the kind of girl who wears black a lot" and "always has her head in a book" and is "kind of cranky."); Ithaca, NY (summer school program for geeks, in case you hadn't figured out she was a geek yet); Baltimore, MD (where she got a degree from Johns Hopkins University in Writing Seminars); Norwich, UK (where she smoked a lot of hash); Fairfax, VA (where she worked as a hostess at a Ruby Tuesday's in a mall); Tampa, FL (where she bartended at a lesbian bar on Pass-A-Grille Beach and worked on a NOW march); Washington, DC (where she waited tables at Polly's Cafe on U Street and lived for a six months in a room that had a gigantic hole in the floor); Seattle, WA (where she worked in a nursing home and performed awful erotic poetry in cafes); the East Village of New York City (interactive advertising work, eight years and counting); Napa, CA (where she wrote INSTANT LOVE), Portland, OR (where she did nothing but walk six miles a day and think and eat superior produce), Los Angeles, CA (where she promptly broke her ankle and was housebound for six weeks) and, mostly, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

So if you think you've met her before, you're probably right.