Hannah Jansen’s writing has appeared in The Letters Page, The Literary Review, The Common Online, and elsewhere, and it has been supported by Monson Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2024, she was a finalist for a George Bennett Fellowship. She is at work on her first book. She lives in Maine.
The opening—that split person—might serve as a metaphor for a book told from the perspective of a person embroiled in grief: someone half in the past, trying, in different ways, to get out.