Fragments

Text by Sarah Yahm
Graphics by Jenni Belotserkovsky

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“Fragments” is an illustrated excerpt from Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation (Dzanc, May 2025), a tragicomic novel about an eccentric Jewish family with an inherited genetic illness. Author Sarah Yahm sought out illustrator Jenni Belotserkovsky because she thought comics were a particularly effective way of representing intense bodily experiences without being voyeuristic or grotesque. In this collaboration, Jenni Belotserkovsky’s sparse but lush images combine with Yahm’s words to bring us inside the interiority of a dying woman in just twelve visceral panels.

Preorder Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Sarah Yahm, forthcoming May 6, 2025.

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Jenni Belotserkovsky was born to Ukrainian/Russian immigrants in Italy. She received her diploma in graphic design in Munich, Germany, volunteered in Botswana, and traveled around New Zealand for one year. Jenni received her B.A. and art teaching license in Vermont, where she currently works as a literature and art teacher and contributing comic artist. Jenni has exhibited her visual art nationally, her art has been published in multiple online and hardcopies publications and won two awards.

Sarah Yahm has worked as an educator, oral historian, documentarian, and writer. She’s taught at colleges and universities, and in public parks and elementary schools. She’s published in Slate, Bellevue Literary Review, and placed pieces on NPR and affiliates, among others. In her work as a writer and an academic, she’s focused on the lived experience and social meaning of illness and disability. She lives in the woods in Central Vermont with her family.

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