Writings in the Raw

Jenny and the Sea

Julia Halprin Jackson April 7, 2011

This vignette is part of a longer piece I'm writing about the year I spent working in southern Spain. It is dedicated to my friend Jenny, an American teacher who fell in love (and later married) her language partner Juan. She now lives and teaches in Spain. I read this at the Mina Dresden Gallery this week as part of Quiet Lightning.

Julia Halprin Jackson

writer. editor. doodler. er.

I write.

I doodle.

I'm at work on my first book, a collection of linked short stories that follows a community of expatriates living on the southern coast of Spain.

I care about stuff. Like curing type 1 diabetes. And marriage equality. And rights for immigrants. And public radio. And espanol. And Frank O'Hara and Jennifer Egan and Federico Garcia Lorca and Tony Kushner. You know, cool stuff.

I make postcards that are also stories.

Sometimes I read stories and poems out loud.

Sometimes I go to conferences.

You can find my short stories, essays, poems and flash fictio in a variety of places in print and online. If you Google really hard, you might find the two short radio pieces I produced on a badass NPR affiliate in San Francisco.

This is where you can go to find out who I am.