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Jessica Dainty is a native New Englander, who has bounced back and forth from the Northeast to Tennessee over the past 20 years. Jessica works as a consulting teacher and reading specialist in the field of special education. When she is not writing her own words, she loves helping others fall in love with reading, especially those who may have given up on it long ago.

She received her undergraduate from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where she started in poetry. She took her first fiction workshop for the simple reason that it terrified her, and after that, she never looked back. She continued on to earn her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied with Hester Kaplan and AJ Verdel ...more

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Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History

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Unraveling Dyslexia: A Guide for Teachers and Families (Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice)

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“I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.”
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“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”
― Paulo Coelho

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“I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.”
― Henry Rollins

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― Theodore Roosevelt

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