jay vera summer
writer, editor, instructor
Selected Creative Writing
Personal Essays and other Creative Nonfiction
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Hometown Tour, JAKE, 2023
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If You Decide to Flirt With a Stranger, New York Times, Tiny Love Story, 2022
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My First Cell Phone: Black Motorola Startak, Have Has Had, 2019
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I Don't Feel Comfortable As a Vegan Activist Because of My Evangelical Upbringing, Tenderly, 2019
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Fibromyalgia, Me, and Doris Lee, Hawai’i Review (edition 87, book 2), 2017
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Fibromyalgia: Three Instances Of, Luna Luna Magazine, 2017
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My Body Gossip Column, Proximity, 2016
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I Took Down a Fraudulent Breast Cancer Charity, Marie Claire, 2016
Fiction
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Birthday Party, Gone Lawn, 2018
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Federal Death Registry, Jokes Review, 2018
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Crickets, Crack the Spine Journal (issue 224), 2017
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The Problem with Halloween, Dum Dum Zine, 2017
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Holy Water, The Conium Review (volume 6), 2017
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The Blue Line, Typehouse Literary Magazine (volume 4, number 3, issue 12), 2017
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Concrete, LimeHawk (issue 10), 2016
Poetry
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Chicago Parks, Poetry South (issue 10), 2018
Writing on Writing
Interviews
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Interview With Heather Kamins, Author of The Moth Girl, Chronically Lit, 2023
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Interview With Lincoln Michel, Hobart, 2015