Bessie is a writer living in New York City. She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College in 2020. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, The Rumpus, and The Belladonna, among other publications. Bessie is currently a grant writer at the Lower East Side Girls Club and is working on a novel.

Writing

Fiction and satire
In Thickness and In Health in HASH (2022)
Bedroom or Beaver Dam? in The Belladonna (2020)

Book reviews
Provocative Self-Help in “Laziness Does Not Exist” in The Chicago Review of Books (2021)
The Poem Must Forgive: E.J. Koh’s “The Magical Language of Others” in The Rumpus (2020)
”Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls” by T Kira Madden in The Rupture (2019)

bessie116@gmail.com