• Skip to content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Painted Bride Quarterly

  • About
    • About PBQ
    • People
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Print Annuals
  • Podcast
    • Latest Podcast
    • All Podcasts
  • News & Events
  • Submit
  • Shop
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Contributors
  • Current Issue

Jessica Pierce

December 3, 2018 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Jessica Pierce can swear in Spanish and Bengali, change a flat bicycle tire in under 5 minutes on the side of the road when it’s 95 degrees and she’s inches away from roaring semis, and sing the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody with relative accuracy. However, she cannot do cartwheels or go on swings anymore—having two children seems to have permanently changed her center of gravity in a very literal way. When she’s not staring into space and pondering death, which often leads to walking into doorways and tables, she can be found staring into space and pondering how to radically transform public education. Which also leads to walking into doorways and tables. As a result, she has a pretty consistent rotating display of bruises on her arms and legs, but she’s hoping the new multivitamins with more iron will help with that. She’s grateful to her sitar-playing husband for making sure she always has plenty of dark chocolate to eat and pushing her to send her work out into the world.

Filed Under: Contributors 98, Issue 98

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent News & Events

  • PBQ Open Editorial Meeting!
  • Readings by Dora Malech, Cameron MacKenzie, Thomas Devaney, Leah Falk
  • PBQ Poetry Slam at the P&P!
  • David Rock: “Driving Through Idaho”
  • David Rock
© 2019 Painted Bride Quarterly. Contact PBQ: info@pbqmag.org