Jesi Bender, author of Dangerous Women (Dancing Girl Press)

Cover of Dangerous Women that features hand-drawn faces of women. Jesi Bender is the author of the recently published chapbook, Dangerous Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2022). Jesi is also the author of the play Kinderkrankenhaus (Sagging Meniscus), the novel The Book of the Last Word (Whiskey Tit), and her shorter work has appeared in Fence, Split Lip, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and was featured in The Gravity of the Thing’s Winter 2020 issue.

From Dangerous Women:

“The way he says airplane—arrow-plain—brief synesthesia.  These are the things we do. Obsessed and devastated with this life and letters, their hybrid meanings. Lay down, pulled back sheets. Strange currents felt like sand pulled from the water…”

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