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Intro

Hello, all!

I’m one of this fortnight’s guest bloggers. My blogging name is The Girl Detective, and I write for Modern Mitzvot, a site devoted to exploring social justice from a Jewish perspective. I also write at my self-titled blog.

I teach freshman composition at a community college, although someday I hope to get a job teaching creative writing. My fiction has appeared in journals here and there (my greatest accomplishment is a story in The Missouri Review) and I have an essay on gray rape coming up in the next issue of Make/shift. I’ve got two novels: one that I’m sending to small presses, and another – my first foray into science fiction – that is currently going okay.

I’d love to tell you my name, but some bad experiences a couple of years back made me decide to go undercover. (Who knew that men don’t like it when women write about sex?) BUT. If you’re dying to know, you can look at this flash story I wrote here.

These are things I like:

1. Space (the exploration of)
2. Antisemitism (the ending of)
3. Academia (the improvement of)
4. Literature (the reading of)

Big thanks to Jill for giving me this opportunity – I’ve got some stuff in store for you, oh yes. It’s going to be awesome.


4 thoughts on Intro

  1. A flash story, yay!

    I got a very nice rejection note from TMR the other day, and thought of you (because sadly, much of my experience with TMR is “oo, I like them, they published Girl Detective”).

    Now that wedding is over, I must resume regular reading of blogs rather than haphazard, and get back over to Girl Detective to catch up on archived material.

  2. Fatemeh – right back atcha!

    Mandolin – cool! I’ve been enjoying your stuff on Alas.

  3. Hi!

    From one Jewish feminist (rather sporadic) blogger to another (probably less sporadic), welcome, and I’m glad that you’ll be guest blogging. I’m excited to read your posts, your blog, and Modern Mitzvot. More lefty feminist Jews are always fun to find.

    b’shalom
    Jo

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