[1944, The Ardennes] The buzzing performed nightly. Quiet could settle thick as a tongue onto an uncleared field. In the mornings, men would climb out from the earth like beetles, like living things, to see if someone had left food for their snow-lined stomachs. Or news. Deep in the waking woods, a Midwestern boy huddled […]
Jennie B. Ziegler
JENNIE B. ZIEGLER completed her M.F.A. at the University of Arizona in Nonfiction and currently teaches and lives in the Southeast. Her work often explores the body, regional identity, place-based writing, science, and intergenerational war storytelling. She has forthcoming work in The Washington Square Review as well as Roanoke Review, and has work previously featured in The Normal School, Essay Daily, Squawk Back, and the Appalachian Review, among others. Currently, she is working on a collection of essays surrounding preserved lands in Northeastern Florida, supported by the Humanities and Arts Project grant from the University of North Florida. Find her at @InTheFourteenth and more of her work at JennieZiegler.com.
