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Jody Keisner
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UNDER MY BED & OTHER ESSAYS, Sept. 2022 @UnivNebPress, ex-waitress, momee!, adoptee, professor, EIC @TheLindenReview #binders
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    Jody Keisner
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    Sep 1, 2022
    UNDER MY BED AND OTHER ESSAYS launches today, a book that took me five long years to write! Thank you for letting me share these stories about fear and its origins with you. I am so grateful. The picture is from yesterday, when I signed pre-orders at The Bookworm.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Dec 4, 2020
    I signed a book contract this morning with @UnivNebPress and I may never sleep again I AM SO EXCITED!!!!
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    Jody Keisner
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    Oct 14, 2023
    For a presentation on AI, my student brought in two passages of text: one from my book (surprise!) and an AI rewrite. She asked the class which passage was better at illustrating the emotional texture of the scene. The majority chose the AI rewrite. It all felt gross.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Mar 28, 2023
    At bedtime, during pillow talk, my sweet sensitive 5 yo: "Mom, do you sometimes throw away my artwork?" 😭😭😭
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    Jody Keisner
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    Apr 5, 2022
    Cover reveal! I hope ya'all like it. I love how the cover symbolizes drowning in one's own fear....yet managing to somehow hold on. Coming September 1, 2022!
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    Jody Keisner
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    Oct 16, 2022
    I got my first notable in Best American Essays! Whoopee! 2022 for "Runaway Mother," the title essay of my next collection!!!!
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    Jody Keisner
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    Sep 3, 2021
    This is the essay you need today. mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my…
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    Jody Keisner
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    Dec 10, 2019
    Two acceptances today (I assure you, that has never happened before, though the rejections = aplenty): a craft essay for Brevity and a personal essay for The Girlfriend.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Oct 10, 2019
    Replying to @crucet and @GeorgiaSouthern
    I'm teaching My Time Among The Whites at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and I want you to know my students love it, as evidenced by our lively discussions and nearly all of them reading ahead! I appreciate what you and your books are doing.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Oct 15, 2023
    Replying to @JodyKeisner
    Let me add that these are college students in a creative nonfiction class. They are intelligent and well read. I'm not here to criticize my students. Also, AI couldn't have written squat without first ingesting my words and my experience.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Apr 11, 2021
    Replying to @Jake_Wolff
    Oh oh.....hope I don't kill you, but I'm definitely thinking about it
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    Jody Keisner
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    Oct 14, 2023
    "Mad-libs" is a perfect description of AI writing.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Mar 31, 2023
    I had a sex dream about Saul from Breaking Bad and this feels like the appropriate place and time to announce I'm having a midlife crisis.
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    Jody Keisner
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    Aug 15, 2022
    It's been 2 years, but my #AWP23 panel was accepted! We're gonna talk about writing about kith and kin....gulp... legal ramifications and ramifications of the heart, too!