Writings in the Raw

First Amendment, anyone?

Julia Halprin Jackson November 18, 2011

This makes me sick to my stomach.

I'm too mad right now to write anything interesting, so instead I will direct readers to Assistant Professor of English Nathan Brown's letter calling for the resignation of UC Chancellor Katehi, who ordered the riot police to break up the student protesters who were protesting police brutality. Ironic, no?

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.