My memoir SPACE has a photo of me in my Easter dress (and bonnet) on the cover!
JesseLeeKercheval
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Writer, poet, translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry, & visual artist. My prose books include the short story collection Underground Women & the memoir Space. Recent poetry collections include America that island off the coast of France, winner of the Dorset Prize & I Want To Tell You, which is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Recent translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño & The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia. jlkercheval.com
shannaMust-read NF essay by @jlkercheval on #HearingLoss, #HearingAids, & #AccessibilityAccommodations. (I didn’t realize we had this in common until now.)
These days I tell everyone “I’m hard-of-hearing” right away, but it took practice. And it does often get interpreted as exaggeration, because being HoH is invisible. When someone asks you to speak up or repeat, please interpret it as them wanting to hear you, to engage with & appropriately react to what you have to say.
My illustrated essay "Speak Up!" about deafness & taking Lynda Barry's comics class which Melissa Febos chose for the The New Ohio Review Nonfiction Prize is up! Thanks all the editors who worked on getting the words and images too magically appear here! https://newohioreview.org/2022/11/28/speak-up/
Elisa Coghlan@jlkercheval A heartfelt thank you for putting into words and images your experiences with being "a little bit deaf." I found so much of myself in it that it felt uncanny--and deeply comforting. That triaging of personal and social discomforts have been especially intense during the pandemic. (And I've fantasized about taking that class with Lynda Barry! She's so awesome.)
My illustrated essay "Speak Up!" about deafness & taking Lynda Barry's comics class which Melissa Febos chose for the The New Ohio Review Nonfiction Prize is up! Thanks all the editors who worked on getting the words and images too magically appear here! https://newohioreview.org/2022/11/28/speak-up/
Amazon just suggested my own forthcoming poetry book to me. And they are right--I do want a copy!
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Hello Mastodons! (Mastodoners?). I am a writer but my new passion is comics/ graphic narratives and illustrated essays. Was lucky enough to take a semester long class with the Queen of Comics Lynda Barry in the spring & here is a page of my final project! Also had some published here: https://defunct.site/issue/10/authors/114/jesse_lee_kercheval/326/odile & https://anmly.org/ap34/jesse-lee-kercheval/ Love to contact with other #comics folks!
