May the sound of my breakfast dishes being placed in the sink be louder than memories of your father telling you he’d love you even when, not if, you fail. May it drown out the sounds of him rewrapping your Christmas presents each year so you can open them again and again, feigning surprise under […]
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, originally from Ohio, currently lives in Florida. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah and Salamander. She is the winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press (2019). She serves as a reader for The Dodge and as a Meter Mentor in Annie Finch’s Poetry Witch Community. She can be found on YouTube as Meter&Mayhem.