Jennifer Graham (Of Writing YA, Poetics & Play in Novels, and Working Class Readers Vs "Reading as a Luxury")

Purchase: The Fall of Iris Henley (Wednesday Books, 2026)

Read/Listen: The Fall of Iris Henley (excerpt) 

Jennifer Graham graduated from Reed College and received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Under the name Jennifer Donaldson, she is the author of Lies You Never Told Me and I Know You Remember. She also co-wrote the Veronica Mars duology with Rob Thomas. Jennifer currently lives in Austin with her family.

Recommended Reading:

Fanny Howe

Ann Leckie

Martha Wells

The Epiphany Machine by David Burr Gerrard

Writing for Stage and Screen by Sherry Kramer

The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Scythe by Elizabeth Sylvia

An Angel at My Table (1990 Jane Campion film)

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty