About Jennifer Semple Siegel:

"Writing is pretty much like breathing: I would shrivel up and die if I couldn't write. However, I don't make my living as a writer, at least not yet."

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"Fasting would surely come into fashion again at some future date, yet that was no comfort for those living in the present. What, then, was the hunger artist to do?" --Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Artist."
"In all her life she had never been afflicted by ill temper and she looked upon it now as a demon which, along with hunger, was taking possession of her soul." --Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"
Writer, writing, author, memoirist, memoir, teacher, educator, Fulbright Scholar