Jesse Lee Kercheval

A new year is a gift--

Happy Solstice!

Irregular Heart - The Rumpus When she was pregnant with me, my mother said she could see her future like a train, coming to run her down.

Another thanks to The Rumpus for running "Irregular Heart," which was the first piece I drew for the new, forthcoming graphic memoir HOUSEHOLD GODS @fieldmouse.press ! Link in comments! therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. And President Obama sits on the Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, April 16, 2012.

Irregular Heart - The Rumpus When she was pregnant with me, my mother said she could see her future like a train, coming to run her down.

Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...

Thanks to The Threepenny Review for printing my mini essay about deafness in the opening "Table Talk" section. I'm breaking my rule about running a complete piece of mine that is in a print magazine because I want to use this to launch a holiday appeal for friends to SUBSCRIBE to a literary journal

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. And President Obama sits on the Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, April 16, 2012.

So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—

Issue 27.1 Featuring the writing of Emma Bolden, Rachel Cline, Shannon Cram, Jim Daniels, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Beth Ann Fennelly, Allison Field Bell, Gary Fincke, Jesse Lee Kercheval, L.C. Killingsworth, Ase…

Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...

Wisconsin friends!

Photos from the State of Florida archives, taken of me for a newspaper interview in the Tallahassee of yore which show all of my moods--crazy to calm!

Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?

My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm

Photos from the State of Florida archives, taken of me for a newspaper interview in the Tallahassee of yore which show all of my moods--crazy to calm!

Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?

Wisconsin friends!

So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—

What Kinds of Birds We Are While visiting her older sister in an assisted living facility, Jesse Lee Kercheval encounters a profusion of birds who remind her of her sister and herself.

Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...

My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm

What Kinds of Birds We Are While visiting her older sister in an assisted living facility, Jesse Lee Kercheval encounters a profusion of birds who remind her of her sister and herself.

Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...

Issue 27.1 Featuring the writing of Emma Bolden, Rachel Cline, Shannon Cram, Jim Daniels, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Beth Ann Fennelly, Allison Field Bell, Gary Fincke, Jesse Lee Kercheval, L.C. Killingsworth, Ase…

Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...

Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?

Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?

Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?

"The Art of Graphic Narratives," An Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval - Five Points - A Journal of Literature and Art Jesse Lee Kercheval is a novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, and graphic novelist. Her graphic essay, “Birds,” was published in our most recent issue of Five Points (Vol. 24. No. 1), and h...

Thanks to FivePoints and Alicia Raines for this interview with me. And for publishing my graphic narrative "Birds" in their latest issue! fivepoints.gsu.edu/the-art-of-g...

I follow @jesselkercheval.bsky.social's work with great interest. This one really transported me! Check it out.

back in the studio after the book tour!

Irregular Heart - The Rumpus When she was pregnant with me, my mother said she could see her future like a train, coming to run her down.

Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...

back in the studio after the book tour!

Thanks!!