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Jessica Wilbanks

Jessica Wilbanks
Jessica Wilbanks is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as creative nonfiction awards from Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Redivider, and Ruminate magazine. In 2014, she was selected as a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Journalism. Jessica received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Houston, where she served as nonfiction editor for Gulf Coast. She lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her memoir, When I Spoke in Tongues, is available from Beacon Press.


What It’s Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family

Jessica Wilbanks On the Pain of "Falling from the Nest"
November 16, 2018  By Jessica Wilbanks
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