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Jennifer de Guzman is a writer and comics publishing professional 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.

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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New Mateo Home

A couple of Mateo-related announcements.

First, here are some samples from Mateo’s photo session from a couple of weeks ago. The photographer, Christine Szeto, is marvelous. She came to our house and got the best expressions from Mateo.

Second, I’ve made a blog specifically for mothering-related stuff called Mateo and Me. This site will be [...]

Word Traveling

How to Revise

I’m doing my third revision of Sliver of Light now, after meeting at Comic-Con with the editor who has been working with me and getting some notes. I wish I could say that this third time go-round, I truly know what I’m doing, but it’s a go-with-instinct thing. Writing a novel isn’t scientific. There are [...]

Life in Comics

August Life in Comics

My latest Life in Comics column is up at Publishers Weekly. This one is about the first graphic novel I ever read, The Picture Bible.

What’s strange is that in re-reading my favorite chapter in the book — the one about Esther — I did not find a panel I clearly remember. The panel pictured [...]

Word Traveling

Creative Fearlessness

To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her…. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a [...]