Jillian Barnet Writes

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A monthly conversation about writing, books, publishing, and community-building, accompanied by stories of fledgling farming.

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About Jillian Barnet

Best-American essayist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, teacher of writing, adoptee-rights advocate. NYT, HuffPost, New Letters, Brevity, JAMA, Literary Mama, .... I write about writing craft, family in its many iterations, and farm life.

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