TW’s Neva Talladen talks to author Jianna Heuer about blown-up whale parts, opening a bookstore during the 2020 pandemic, and writing a revenge novel as catharsis. Her creative nonfiction and personal essays have been published in <a target="_blank" href="https://inquisitiveeater.com/">The Inquisitive Eater</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://midsummerdream.house/">Midsummer Dream House</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://acrossthemargin.com/">Across The Margin</a>, and other literary journals. Her flash non-fiction has appeared in two books, <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/20181/9781949116205">Fast Funny Women</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/20181/9781954907003">Fast Fierce Women</a>.

Jianna Heuer on Rediscovering and Sustaining Her Writer Self