Jeannine Ouellette (She/Her)

Jeannine Ouellette’s cult-classic bestselling Substack, Writing in the Dark, is a thriving creative community where writing is part of a deeper, vaster conversation about how attention, curiosity, playfulness, and surprise provide a portal to the profound on the path to becoming, because talking about “how to write better” without that larger context is kind of boring. Her memoir, The Part That Burns, was a Kirkus Best 100 and Rumpus Book to Read in 2021, with starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Her writing appears widely in literary journals including Narrative, North American Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Masters Review, Calyx, and more. She teaches at the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and through Writing in the Dark (on Substack, on Zoom, and in the wider world).

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