A Recent Transplant Makes Peace With The Natives
Every morning, I clear away the detritus of another guerrilla war. I kill any survivors, any...
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Jessica Hendry Nelson
Nelson's memoir in essays, If Only You People Could Follow Directions, was published by Counterpoint Press in January, 2014, and was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program and the January 2014 Indies Next List by the American Booksellers' Association. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, Crab Orchard Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Alligator Juniper, Fringe, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2011 John Guyon Literary Prize Competition and recently won first place in Alligator Juniper's national contest in creative nonfiction. Her essay "The Whitest Winter Light" was selected as a Notable essay in the 2012 Best American Essays collection and her work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
I am the Managing and Nonfiction Editor of Green Mountains Review, teach writing at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont, and co-founder of the Renegade Writers' Collective in Burlington, Vermont.
Nelson's memoir in essays, If Only You People Could Follow Directions, was published by Counterpoint Press in January, 2014, and was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program and the January 2014 Indies Next List by the American Booksellers' Association. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, Crab Orchard Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Alligator Juniper, Fringe, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2011 John Guyon Literary Prize Competition and recently won first place in Alligator Juniper's national contest in creative nonfiction. Her essay "The Whitest Winter Light" was selected as a Notable essay in the 2012 Best American Essays collection and her work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I am the Managing and Nonfiction Editor of Green Mountains Review, teach writing at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont, and co-founder of the Renegade Writers' Collective in Burlington, Vermont.
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