Jessica Neutz

Writer.Marketer.Storyteller.

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Over 20 years reading what the body reveals. Now I put it into words: dark fiction, poetry, and essays that refuse to resolve.

The demand that writing be comfortable is a demand that it be useless.— Jessica Neutz

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Featured Writings

In a government building no one can find on a map, employees process the final words people meant to say.

A sequence of poems interrogating what the body knows that the mind refuses to admit.

We are told to bear witness, but no one teaches us what witnessing costs, or when looking becomes its own form of harm.

Recent Writings

Six months of hospital waiting rooms taught me more than any book about what we owe each other in the in-between spaces.

I moved out of the house where I raised my children and discovered that the emptiness has a frequency.

A family discovers that the ability to feel temperature is hereditary, and that some generations are colder than others.

In a government building no one can find on a map, employees process the final words people meant to say.

A retiring professor delivers a final lecture on a subject she has never taught before: the history of her own disappearances.

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