The project is a collection of prose titled Stigmata, Specifically. Comprised of a series of interconnected nonfiction essays, the collection explores the role queerness and spirituality in the formation of identity, with pieces focused on body image, addiction, sobriety, fertility, marriage, and divorce.
Jane V. Blunschi holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arkansas. She was a 2014 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices fellow, and her collection of stories, Understand Me, Sugar, was published in 2017 by Yellow Flag Press. Jane’s Pushcart Prize-nominated work has appeared in Paper Darts, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Foglifter, among others. Originally from Louisiana, Jane lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.