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by Jennifer Savran Kelly

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brief meditations from a fiction writer on craft, publishing, and chocolate

About Jennifer Savran Kelly

I write fiction, bind books, and work as a production editor at Cornell University Press. My debut novel ENDPAPERS came out in February 2023 by Algonquin Books.

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