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Jenna Devany Waters

Writer. Mother. Activist. Wanderer.
Master list-maker; minor revolutionary.
She/Her.

Piles of Books

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Recent Essays

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"On Wandering, Cherry Trees, Mother's Day, and Rot"

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"More than 40,000 ornamental cherry trees grace the walking paths of New York City. Yet somehow I had lived 30 years without knowing a single thing about them."

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"Winter Solstice: Teaching My Kids To Greet The Darkness And Invite In The Light"

Your Tango

"As the last streaks of a light dip below the windowpane, we take turns cutting squares from the flattened dough, twirling them between our palms into a hundred miniature globes. Each ball is wrapped around a single wish, spoken aloud in turn, then dipped in butter, sugar, and cinnamon, before it is at last tossed into the pan."

Work

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Jenna Devany Waters is a queer writer, teacher, and single mother extraordinaire. After 12 years of deadlifting strollers down subway staircases in Manhattan, she has recently relocated to a 120-year-old farmhouse in Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest, where her nearest neighbors are cows, corvids and coyotes.

Her essays have appeared in Orion, Terrain.org, Alaska Quarterly Review, Under the Sun, and elsewhere, and have been selected for notable mention in both Best American Essays and Best American Science and Nature Writing.

She is currently at work on a memoir about divorce, motherhood, and her 10,000 mile rebound road trip to the last remaining lesbian bars in America.

Contact

devanywaters@gmail.com

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