J'Lyn Chapman's chapbook, Bear Stories was published by Calamari Press; she recently curated the pedagogy-of-conversation chapbook The Form Our Curiosity Takesfrom Essay Press. She teaches in the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and edits the online poetics journal Something on Paper.
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies