Welcome to the Jennyverse.
The release of every new chapter in the serialization of What the Dead Can Say will be accompanied by a brief audio excerpt, each one read by a different author. And so, as the weeks pass, the Jennyverse Chorus of voices will continue to grow.
Mary Cappello, a queer nonfictionist, former Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, is the author of seven books.
Kate McCahill is the author of Patagonian Road: A Year Alone through Latin America. She teaches writing and chairs the English department at the Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico.
Alizah Holstein is the author of My Roman History (Viking Press). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation from Vermont College of Fine Arts’ “International MFA” program, and a PhD in medieval Italian history from Cornell University.
Samuel Harps is an award-winning playwright, with recent productions on Captain Paul Cuffe, and playwright William Henry Brown, who created the first known all-black theater company established in New York in 1821. Samuel is the artistic director of Shades Repertory Theater.
Katherine Scott Nelson (Scott, they/them) writes fiction and creative nonfiction. Scott’s novella, Have You Seen Me, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. They have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and their work has been featured in Brevity, Confrontation and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Chicago area, Scott lives in Los Angeles.
Richard Hoffman is the author of nine books, including the Massachusetts Book Award winning Noon until Night, and the recent People Once Real. He is Emeritus Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and nonfiction editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
Janice N. Harrington is the author of four collections of poetry, including the award-winning Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, the newly released Yard Show (BOA Editions), and eight celebrated children’s books. A Cave Canem and Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.
Michele Morano is the author of the essay collections Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain, and Like Love. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, WaveForm: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women, Fourth Genre, Brevity, and many others. She teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago.
Elizabeth Kostova is the author of three novels—The Historian, The Swan Thieves, and The Shadow Land. She is co-founder of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing, which offers opportunities for writers in Bulgarian and in English. Kostova lives with her family in North Carolina.
William Gillespie has published 14.75 books under six different names, most notably Keyhole Factory by William Gillespie.