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Jessie Chaffee

Jessie Chaffee
Jessie Chaffee's debut novel, Florence in Ecstasy, was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017 and was translated into six languages. She completed the novel with the support of a Fulbright Grant to Italy. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Slice Magazine, and The Florentine, among other places. She lives with her family in New York City.


A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID

Jessie Chaffee: “For a moment, I am the girl, her existence of gray monotony broken by a sliver of sunlight while others revel in the day’s abundance.”
April 1, 2025  By Jessie Chaffee
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10 Books On Ecstatically Mad Women

Jessie Chaffee Reads Deeply into Emptiness, Fear, Desire, and Elation
July 3, 2017  By Jessie Chaffee
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