Jill Bronfman was one of 12 Aspiring Novelists Selected for the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2025, was the Barnes & Noble, National Essay Contest Grand Prize Winner, was the Word’s Faire, Runner-Up for the Spring Short Fiction Contest 2025, placed second in the Joan Ramseyer Memorial Poetry Contest, was named a semi-finalist for both the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and The Waking’s Flash Prose Prize, and received an honorable mention in the Storm Cellar Force Majeure Flash Contest. Her work has been accepted for publication in five collections and over thirty literary journals. She has performed in The Bay Area Book Festival, Poets in the Parks, The Basement Series, Page Street, Washington Square Annual Livestream, and LitQuake, and had her story about a middle-aged robot produced as a podcast by Ripples in Space. She has been accepted to residencies and conferences including Looking Glass, Elk River, Squam, WonderMountain, and LitCamp. She is a reader for The Masters Review, and a Poet-Teacher for California Poets in the Schools. She volunteers with 826 Valencia and ScholarMatch helping kids write poetry and teens write their personal essays for college applications.