Jenn Dees

Programs Director, Los Angeles

Jenn Dees is the programs director at PEN America in Los Angeles. Dees previously served as production manager of ALOUD, a series of readings, conversations, and performances presented by The Library Foundation of Los Angeles. She has more than a decade of experience producing public events, managing interdisciplinary arts-based projects, and facilitating the work of creators in video, theater, dance, and site-specific performance at venues such as EXIT ART, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and SCAD Museum of Art. She has a background in arts education, having served in the Education Departments of The Music Center and the Park Avenue Armory, and has experience in building curricula in subjects such as sequential art, filmmaking, and visual culture. She is a graduate of Emerson College and New York University’s Gallatin School.


Articles by Jenn Dees

Thursday December 8

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kimberly Nguyen

I believe that fiction is a mask, and the truth lurks somewhere underneath.

Thursday January 6

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jean Chen Ho

“I made a lot of awful, sad things happen to these characters [in Fiona and Jane]. . . and still, they manage to survive and even find joy, together.”

Thursday November 11

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Truong Tran

“This has gone on for far too long. I have been silent. I have been silenced. These answers, like the book, are the breaking of silence.”