@jenessaabrams
Jenessa Abrams is a writer, translator, and practitioner of Narrative Medicine.
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The website for New York City based writer Jenessa Abrams.
Trauma Is a Narrative Problem | Los Angeles Review of Books
Trauma Is a Narrative Problem | Los Angeles Review of Books
In Emily LaBarge’s new memoir, trauma’s intensity and unknowable nature impel her to try to communicate it.
Anxiety Dreams - Substack
Anxiety Dreams - Substack
literary critic, essayist, novel-in-progress, director of lecture/performance series, narrative medicine rounds at columbia university https://links.alex-ray.com/jenessaabrams. Click to read Jenessa Abrams on Substack. Launched 5 months ago.
Children Die, and Parents Go On Living | Los Angeles Review of Books
Children Die, and Parents Go On Living | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jenessa Abrams reviews Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow.”
Donate to the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Agency
Donate to the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Agency
UPCOMING CLASSES
Independent Studies & Manuscript Consultations
Independent Studies & Manuscript Consultations
LATEST WORK
A Body Is Never Just a Body | Los Angeles Review of Books
A Body Is Never Just a Body | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jenessa Abrams considers Shayne Terry’s “Leave: A Postpartum Account.”
You Can't Unsubscribe From Grief | Electric Literature
You Can't Unsubscribe From Grief | Electric Literature
The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Motherhood: On "Mothers’ Instinct" by Barbara Abel | Words Without Borders
The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Motherhood: On "Mothers’ Instinct" by Barbara Abel | Words Without Borders
What I'm Trying to Say: Some Thoughts on Translation
What I'm Trying to Say: Some Thoughts on Translation
Tasting Table: Food Features
Tasting Table: Food Features
Off Assignment: Letter to a Stranger Anthology
Off Assignment: Letter to a Stranger Anthology
Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
Electric Literature: "When Yes Doesn't Mean Yes"
Electric Literature: "When Yes Doesn't Mean Yes"
SELECT FICTION
Epiphany: "Because of Necessity" and "Female Chronology"
Epiphany: "Because of Necessity" and "Female Chronology"
You’ve never been a woman. You’ve been inside a woman, but you’ve never been a woman with something inside of her. You are inside of me. You marvel at the shape of my bladder.
Tin House: "They Tell Me I'm Lucky"
Tin House: "They Tell Me I'm Lucky"
SELECT NONFICTION
The Atlantic: "Mary South’s Lonely World of Tech-Abetted Humans”
The Atlantic: "Mary South’s Lonely World of Tech-Abetted Humans”
Mary South’s stories of loss are deft parables about the false protection of machines. They also feel particularly apt right now.
Guernica: "Their Daughters Were Having Cats Instead of Children"
Guernica: "Their Daughters Were Having Cats Instead of Children"
A new collection of Bette Howland's short stories restores a powerful voice to the canon.
BOMB Magazine: "Hunger for Wholeness"
BOMB Magazine: "Hunger for Wholeness"
Deconstructing self-made myths in Melissa Febos's Abandon Me
SELECT TRANSLATIONS
The Brooklyn Rail: "Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle: Selection 7"
The Brooklyn Rail: "Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle: Selection 7"
He looks me right in the eye, with an air of bewilderment, like I’m dimwitted, or as if I’ve insulted his mother.
The Offing: "Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle: Selections 1-6"
The Offing: "Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle: Selections 1-6"
Translation by Elise Galmard and Jenessa Abrams
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