Jessica Keener

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Greetings! I'm glad you're here. Sit down with your tea or coffee and check out some links if you have time. What I can tell you for starters is that I'm obsessed with unraveling interpersonal sagas and exploring how people reshape their histories in a hopeful, life-altering way. As I see it, we're all vessels of history, imagined or real. What drives people to make choices, good or bad? Writing is my way of delving into the complex nature of humanity.

It's why I love to write fiction, memoir-ish essays, and articles about home and home design. I'm fascinated by how people define their personal nesting grounds; how they create physical comfort and private space; or how they fail at this. When I write home design articles, I find that people really open up when talking about their living spaces. Most of us harbor plenty of secrets, consciously or unconsciously. Fiction is a great way to shine some light on these emotional caves we all have inside us.

Stop by my blog sometime: Confessions of A Hermit Crab, where you can check out the archives and comments about home and related matters.

Then, there's my long-standing interest in health born out of my early experience with a life-threatening illness, and as a recipient of an experimental bone marrow transplant (I'm talking late '70s here). My story, Recovery, was inspired by this transformative event and won Redbook's second prize, fiction.

Send me your thoughts. I'd love to hear from you.

Best wishes,

Jessica
email me: jessicakeener1(at)gmail(dot)com