Jessi Jezewska Stevens's stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, The Nation, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Paris Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, The Exhibition of Persephone Q, was published in 2020 and was selected as a New York Times Editors's Choice. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Middlebury College and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in New York.
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On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she’s now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of b... SEE MORE