Jenessa Abrams is a writer, literary translator, and practitioner of narrative medicine. Her fiction, literary criticism, and creative nonfiction have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Chicago Review of Books, BOMB, and elsewhere. She was recently named a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic Fellow. Currently, she teaches writing in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.
Jenessa Abrams
Articles
Children Die, and Parents Go On Living
Jenessa Abrams reviews Yiyun Li’s “Things in Nature Merely Grow.”
A Body Is Never Just a Body
Jenessa Abrams considers Shayne Terry’s “Leave: A Postpartum Account.”
When a Woman Turns into a Wife
Jenessa Abrams reviews “Liars” by Sarah Manguso in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s essay about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Standing on the Cliff of Motherhood: On Miranda July’s “All Fours”
Jenessa Abrams reviews Miranda July’s “All Fours.”
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