Author: Jean Harper

The day after Christmas, I was pleasantly surprised to see that a poem I had written 12 years ago has been accepted for publication. Nice!  No, I didn’t try to get it published over and over again for the last 12 years. I had this feeling that it was too odd, too nichey, not something really poem-y…

Starts tomorrow. December 19th. Finishing up grading and reports and assessment today, and then?  Book #3 is underway already. The next few months will be spent reviewing what I have (about 41,000 words more or less), making order out of the semi-chaos, revising, adding in, editing out, and all the rest of the things that writing needs me…

Just over five years ago, I published Still Life with Horses, and it was all great. Talking to readers, doing readings, sending the book out into the world. Good job, little book. Thank you, readers. Thank you Howling Bird Press. Then, I got interested in comics, and spent some time learning about how to make,…

So, Still Life with Horses is a finalist for the The Midwest Independent Publishing Association Award in the category of Autobiography/Memoir.  This is very nice news indeed.  We’ll find out who the award winner is on May 12, 2018. Here’s the press release: LINK

Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of being interviewed about Still Life with Horses by several very talented women writers.  Each interview posed questions about my book which were all interesting to consider.  Questions like: How did this book begin?  How do you write about animals and avoid sentimentality?  Why is it that working with horses is…

My sabbatical year is now, and has been for a few weeks, officially at an end.  I’m back in the classroom, and the committee meetings, and the long commute.  Back to that kind of free-floating anxiety that comes with this job: the cloud of so many things that must be done, things half-remembered, or overdue,…