Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl
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This is the opening page of the Jackson Reading Path for Patchwork Girl
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Shelley Jackson is the author of the story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the novel Half Life, the hypertexts Patchwork Girl and My Body, a Wunderkammer and several children’s books, most recently Mimi’s Dada Catifesto. Her stories and essays have appeared in many journals including McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, The Believer, and Cabinet Magazine.
In 2003 she launched her project SKIN, a story published in tattoos on 2095 volunteers. The recipient of a Howard Foundation grant, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2006 James Tiptree Jr Award, she is also co-founder with artist Christine Hill of the Interstitial Library and headmistress of the Shelley Jackson Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children, a work in progress.
Versions
1. Floppy Disk (in folio or packaged without), 1995, by Eastgate
2. CD, 2000, by Eastgate
3. USB Stick, 2014, by Eastgate
