About

Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes stories about sad girls, seawater, bottomless wells, airborne plagues, and horses. You can find links to some of them them in the Selected Works section or read them at her Scribd page.

She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew.

Portrait by Brian Belew.

What Are Possible Impossiblities?

“The Poet ought rather to chuse Impossibilities, provided they have Resemblance to the Truth, than the Possible, which are Incredible with all their Possibility.”
- Henry Fielding, quoting Aristotle in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Essay at Strange Horizons

My essay, “An Empire in Words” has been published by Strange Horizons, an online journal that I’ve been lucky enough to have my work in several times — and now in all genres!

I originally wrote “An Empire in Words” for an MFA nonfiction workshop, taught by the excellent Cathleen Miller. After it went through the critique process, she pointed out that the workshop was a personal narrative essay course, and this wasn’t really a personal narrative. Oops.

However, it is about a subject that is personally important to me — the Great Library of Alexandria. When I first learned about it, I used to cry because it was lost, thinking of all the works that existed and now no longer do. In the essay, I’ve tied the library to the concepts of empire and immortality.

March 8th, 2010 | Category: Writing

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