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Jennifer Murvin
Jennifer Murvin is the author of two story collections, She Says (Small Harbor Publishing) and Real California Living (forthcoming Braddock Avenue Books). Her essays, stories, and graphic narratives have appeared in literary journals such as Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, The Southampton Review, The Pinch, december magazine, DIAGRAM, The Florida Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Indiana Review, CutBank, Post Road, American Short Fiction (Winner of the American Short(er) Fiction Contest, judged by Stuart Dybek), Phoebe, The Sun, Mid-American Review, Midwestern Gothic, and Cincinnati Review. Jen is an Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University, a faculty member at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Lasell University, and a faculty leader for the nonprofit community writing workshop River Pretty Writers Retreat. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Jen is also the owner of the indie bookstore Pagination Bookshop in Springfield, MO. Find more at https://www.jennifermurvin.com/.
Cover art by: Maddy Cushman
Praise for She Says:
A teacher’s assistant bringing death wherever she goes, an adulteress watching the sky fall, an heiress creating art one story below her poisoned lover: through Murvin’s incisive and masterful prose, captivating, complex women come alive, longing to be understood on their own terms. Her reimagined protagonists beckon us into dazzling new worlds shaped by the shimmer of desire—into, as one narrator says, “blue space, where anything could happen.” It’s a vital, luminous siren song no reader can, nor should, resist.
—Liz Breazeale, author of Extinction Events,
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize
Jennifer Murvin's She Says shows readers why point-of-view matters. Murvin reimagines what the women in the room would've said, done, and remembered in the retelling of these classic short stories. I felt the blood dry on my lips, the ceiling come closing down, the orange trees turn to sticks, and the cold glass of gin in my hand. A tour de force in the truest sense.
—Michaella Thornton, columnist at Reckon Review
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