[3] She spent her childhood years in various American states, including Massachusetts, California, Indiana, and North Carolina,[3] where she attended high school and received a BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and later, at Stanford University, was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction.

[4] After graduating, she worked a number of odd jobs: waitress, bartender, caterer, cashier, medical transcriber, fact-checker, and ghost-writer.

[5] "I went to UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate and I studied with Doris Betts, Jill McCorkle and Robert Kirkpatrick among others.

of Speculation [12]Her third novel, Weather, was shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction,[13] and in December 2020, Emily Temple of Literary Hub reported that the novel had made 13 lists of the best books of 2020.

[18] In 2008, Offill, 39, a writer and creative writing teacher at Brooklyn College and Columbia University, and her partner, David Hirme, 37, a Web director for Channel 13, a public television station, lived in Brooklyn with their child, Theo, 3.