Hi!
I’m Jesse Rice-Evans (they/she): education technologist, ambulatory wheelchair user, and lover of silly creatures.
My poetry and essays have been published widely in peer-reviewed and creative outlets, mostly from before I got too sick to work for free 🙂
Welcome to my website! This site includes biographical and contact information, and links to some of my work elsewhere on the web.
Writing Projects
Untitled Academic MS
41,904 words of disabled autotheory, autoethnography, scavenged and shelled
I’ve been developing my first scholarly manuscript FKA known as my dissertation on medical and institutional rhetorics of exclusion. If you would like to fund my work so I can take time away from my full-time job to write, please fill out the contact form below 🙂
Untitled Memoir
31,198 words of untitled memoir in essays – inquire for details 🙂
Poetry Collections – seeking representation &/or publication
ACNE
12,869 words of lyrical prose broken into short thematic essays that embrace experimental formatting, lineation, poetic prose
This collection is fractured, full of interruptions, dislocations, slivers of memory that vanish again. It’s about growing up in North Carolina in the Southern United States, memory’s half-life, and self-medicating. There’s a lot of dreamy sound, vivid in-scene imagery, and an attunement to embodiment in the language, which is kinda my specialty as a writer and rhetoric scholar. ACNE explores the tension between a self-assured voice against a constant undercurrent of dissociation while healing against neoliberalism. Through fragments from the mind of a gluttonous reader losing her memory, the collection further offers many opportunities for playful formatting.
Untitled Grey’s Anatomy collection
14,119 words of found pop culture poetry exploring bedbound embodiment, disabled futurism, and depictions of illness and disability in popular TV
Pain Brain
10,581 words on science fiction, dissociation, and dreaming through severe chronic pain; possibly the most intimate portrait of the writer’s interiority, providing enactments of the sensation of losing words, thought vanishing, and cognitive decline from neurological illness; how to grieve the former self
Latest
Most of my personal creative work is on hold as I have been too sick to spend precious energy on anything demanding but optional. Progress is very slow.
Since October 2022, I’ve been working at CUNY School of Professional Studies as OpenLab Product Manager, working to develop a brand-new iteration of the open digital pedagogy and community-building platform I’ve been working on since 2018!
Past Projects
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