Jessica Goldschmidt is a Brooklyn/Lenapehoking-based writer, performance maker, and proud member of the PSC-CUNY teacher's union. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Entropy, and various spaces around New York City. She's a graduate of Brown University and the CalArts Creative Writing MFA, and counts among her teachers Tisa Bryant, Erik Ehn, Brian Evenson, Miguel Gutierrez, Doug Kearney, Janet Sarbanes, Andrew Simonet, and Jon Wagner.
We stood there in silence for a while. Small waves of sound lapped at the stone walls and low monuments of the church: car tires, distant sirens, subway rumble.