I'm pleased to announce that my essay, "Amah's Haftorah," has been published in COLLAGE Magazine, a gorgeous, multilingual, themed magazine edited and created by Marta Moreno and Lorenzo Hernandez. You can read the text, and see images of my beautiful Amah here. Flip the page and you'll see a piece written by my soon-to-be-husband, Ryan Alpers. We both sat down to write something inspired by the theme "memory," and independently submitted essays about our grandmothers--and each other. It is fitting that COLLAGE is being produced now, a mere 16 days before we get married.
writer. editor. doodler. er.
Writings in the Raw
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.