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Jenessa Abrams

Jenessa Abrams is a Norman Mailer Fiction Fellow and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in fiction and literary translation. Her writing has been published in Tin House, Guernica, Carve Magazine, BOMB Magazine, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in New York City, where she is pursuing a subsequent graduate degree in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

Rumpus Original

Jenessa Abrams

Oct 16, 2018

Naked in Japan

Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
Rumpus Original

Jenessa Abrams

Apr 17, 2017

Written in Chalk: What It Means to Be Crazy

As truth becomes more elusive, as fact blends with fiction, we ought to take notice of how we categorize people, as categorization seems to be married to suppression, to disenfranchisement.
Politics, Rumpus Original

Jenessa Abrams

Dec 7, 2016

What I’ll Tell My Children: On Being ‘F***Able’ under the Regime of President-elect

It’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.

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Jenessa Abrams

Naked in Japan

Written in Chalk: What It Means to Be Crazy

What I’ll Tell My Children: On Being ‘F***Able’ under the Regime of President-elect