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Jennifer Arnspiger

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Born

Phoenix, The United States

Website

https://substack.com/@jenniferarnspiger

Genre

Fiction, Memoir, Contemporary

Influences

Ray Bradbury Alice Hoffman ...more

Member Since

June 2019

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Jennifer Arnspiger is a writer, author and the creator of Body Writing™.

Inspired by Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writing, her prose balances lyrical voice with a love of bringing readers to their knees. She graduated with honors for her creative writing thesis from UNM, attended the Hollins University creative writing MFA program, and her short story Foie Gras was a runner up for the Missouri Review Editor's Prize.

Jennifer believes fiction tells the truth truer, but nothing tells the truth like the body.

She is currently at work on a memoir and can be found inside Body Writing - her publication and community for deep feelers who long to find somatic healing through writing affecting prose. Read vulnerable excerpts, craft breakdowns and get ins ...more

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We Like Pretty, Dark Things

INFJ personality types notoriously enjoy dark fairytales, love stories about beauty and agony that ring both honest and true. I'd like to introduce you to my favorite story in my current short story collection, Pretty Piece of Flesh.

Have you ever been treated like a pretty piece of flesh?
Have you ever looked at a stranger and thought (same)?

The truth is that we all have both aspects inside us all Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 03, 2019 17:07 • Tags: coming-of-age, fairytales, infj, short-story

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

tags: authenticity, genuineness, honesty, kindness, self-awareness, truth-telling

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