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

It Was a Dark and Stormy Bulwer-Lytton…

The results of the Bulwer-Lytton contest are in, and they’re pretty amusing.

The Bulwer-Lytton contest, for those that don’t know, is an award given for the worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel. It’s run by Dr. Scott Rice, who was chair of the San Jose State English department when I was an undergraduate. It’s named [...]

June 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Academia, Writing | Leave a comment