Jess Zimmerman

Jess Zimmerman is the author of Women and Other Monsters and an editor at Quirk Books. Her essays and opinion writing have appeared in the Guardian, the New Republic, Slate, Hazlitt, Catapult, and others.

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Cover Photo: image via Martín Julio Vázquez/flickr

What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa

“Medusa’s ugliness grew and grew, becoming something greater than herself but still part of her legend.”

Jess Zimmerman

May 23, 2017

Columns | Role Monsters

Never Quiet Again

“It’s not that we don’t remember what it was like before the sound. If you asked us, we could tell you.”

Jess Zimmerman

May 12, 2017

Fiction | Flash

Cover Photo: Detail of Aeneas and his Companions Fighting the Harpies, by François Perrier / Image via Wikimedia

The Monstrous Female Ambition of the Harpy

“When women grab for space men thought reserved for their use alone, those men will surely call us foul.”

Jess Zimmerman

Apr 24, 2017

Columns | Role Monsters

All the Ways He Won’t Die

“Someday he’ll meet a fate I didn’t think of, and that will be my fault, too.”

Jess Zimmerman

Feb 17, 2017

Fiction | Short Story

A Life in Google Maps

“I can’t zoom in far enough to see if we were happy, or sad, or changing, or lying to ourselves.”

Jess Zimmerman

Sep 12, 2016

Places | Virtual Worlds