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Melissa Chinchillo |
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YOU HAVE VIOLATED A PROTECTED AREA
A brilliant and nuanced debut essay collection from 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award-winner Courtney Zoffness.
These essays explore a range of personal transgressions. They investigate the ways these experiences, from the quietly familiar to the more acutely traumatic, alter our sense of self and the boundaries we maintain with others.
In "The Only Thing We Have to Fear," the author's lifelong battle with anxiety becomes an unwelcome intrusion into her experience of motherhood, one that begins to violate her own child's body as well.
In "Unarrested," she wrestles with the reality of her privilege when she dodges consequences of her own transgression, coming to terms with the inequities and failure of the juvenile justice system.
In "Ultrasound," she trespasses on her mother's past by secretly listening to recordings from her life as performer, a life her mother adamantly kept separate from her children.
In "Hot for Teacher," she explores the violations of sexual misconduct when a male student brazenly crosses a line.
The collection also encroaches its way into the lives of others: an Aleppan Jew who makes a risky escape to Israel; a gestational surrogate whose attempt at altruism goes dangerously awry.
In each border-crossing, from the physical to the psychological, Zoffness probes her own values, and her own identity as woman, mother, and artist.
Selections have appeared in The Southern Review, won the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize, and earned a "notable" designation in Best American Essays 2018.
Courtney Zoffnesswrites fiction and nonfiction. Her story "Peanuts Aren't Nuts" won the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award, the richest award in the world for a short work of fiction. She is currently working on a novel based on that story.
She has won the Arts & Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Center for Fiction, and two residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony. Her work has appeared in various publications, includingThe Southern Review, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books,and McSweeney's anthology,Indelible in the Hippocampus(Sept 2019). She was named a "notable" essayist inBest American Essays 2018.Courtney directs the Creative Writing Program at Drew University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In "The Only Thing We Have to Fear," the author's lifelong battle with anxiety becomes an unwelcome intrusion into her experience of motherhood, one that begins to violate her own child's body as well.
In "Unarrested," she wrestles with the reality of her privilege when she dodges consequences of her own transgression, coming to terms with the inequities and failure of the juvenile justice system.
In "Ultrasound," she trespasses on her mother's past by secretly listening to recordings from her life as performer, a life her mother adamantly kept separate from her children.
In "Hot for Teacher," she explores the violations of sexual misconduct when a male student brazenly crosses a line.
The collection also encroaches its way into the lives of others: an Aleppan Jew who makes a risky escape to Israel; a gestational surrogate whose attempt at altruism goes dangerously awry.
In each border-crossing, from the physical to the psychological, Zoffness probes her own values, and her own identity as woman, mother, and artist.
Selections have appeared in The Southern Review, won the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize, and earned a "notable" designation in Best American Essays 2018.
Courtney Zoffnesswrites fiction and nonfiction. Her story "Peanuts Aren't Nuts" won the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award, the richest award in the world for a short work of fiction. She is currently working on a novel based on that story.
She has won the Arts & Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Center for Fiction, and two residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony. Her work has appeared in various publications, includingThe Southern Review, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books,and McSweeney's anthology,Indelible in the Hippocampus(Sept 2019). She was named a "notable" essayist inBest American Essays 2018.Courtney directs the Creative Writing Program at Drew University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.