Thursday at the studio

My book launch of my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL last year on this day at the Wisconsin BookFestival! This morning flying to DC for @smallpressexpo.bsky.social to read from the book and signing copies again at the great @fieldmouse.press table! It's been a lovely year with this book as company!

Thursday at the studio

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My book launch of my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL last year on this day at the Wisconsin BookFestival! This morning flying to DC for @smallpressexpo.bsky.social to read from the book and signing copies again at the great @fieldmouse.press table! It's been a lovely year with this book as company!

Wednesday in the studio--

Wednesday in the studio--

Meanwhile the river

Meanwhile the river

A reminder to get your poetry translation manuscripts in for the Wisconsin Translation Prize! $1500 and publication by the University of Wisconsin Press. This year it is Daniel Borutzky for the Translation Prize.

Me, on the cover of my All Words memoir SPACE. Me, on the cover of my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmouse.press . If you are on Instagram, too, I have two accounts: words, travel pics, personal pics @jlkerche. Or my all art, all comics Instagram @jesseleekercheval

Meanwhile the river—

It exists! The Spanish edition of Flores raras [escondido país], the anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets that I co-edited with Silvia Guerra Díaz! Published by Ediciones contrabando! Silvia and I will be doing readings and events in Spain in October--Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona and more.

Meanwhile the river—

Last year, my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL appeared in the world! Thanks to @fieldmouse.press ! Thanks to the Washington Post for naming it a Top Graphic Novel of the Year! It has been an amazing year. And you can still buy a copy! www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...

Me, on the cover of my All Words memoir SPACE. Me, on the cover of my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmouse.press . If you are on Instagram, too, I have two accounts: words, travel pics, personal pics @jlkerche. Or my all art, all comics Instagram @jesseleekercheval

Last year, my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL appeared in the world! Thanks to @fieldmouse.press ! Thanks to the Washington Post for naming it a Top Graphic Novel of the Year! It has been an amazing year. And you can still buy a copy! www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...

It exists! The Spanish edition of Flores raras [escondido país], the anthology of 55 Uruguayan women poets that I co-edited with Silvia Guerra Díaz! Published by Ediciones contrabando! Silvia and I will be doing readings and events in Spain in October--Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona and more.

My graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL--named by the Washington Post as one of the top graphic novels of the year--is now available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social ! As well as @fieldmouse.press asterismbooks.com/product/fren...

Submissions OPEN for the Wisconsin Poetry Series! The wonderful Erika Meitner is stepping in as senior editor and at the mazing Nate Marshall as associate editor. I am stepping away from the regular series but still editing the Translation Prize!

"Focused primarily on her childhood, Kercheval’s memoir is told in a series of seventeen fanciful chapters...Shifting metaphors abound." - Review of Jesse Lee Kercheval’s “French Girl” by Garnett Cohen. @jesselkercheval.bsky.social anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/06/06/r...

Meanwhile the river

My graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL--named by the Washington Post as one of the top graphic novels of the year--is now available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social ! As well as @fieldmouse.press asterismbooks.com/product/fren...

A page from my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmouse.press www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...

Happy Book Birthday! América Invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets is 9 years old! If you are looking for a great anthology of poetry beyond the limitations the current world wants to set for us--read this one! Teach this one! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Americ...

A trip of two oceans! The Pacific in Chile and now back in Uruguay by the Atlantic in Punte del Este--

A page from in my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL. www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc.... @fieldmouse.press

Happy Book Birthday! América Invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets is 9 years old! If you are looking for a great anthology of poetry beyond the limitations the current world wants to set for us--read this one! Teach this one! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Americ...

A page from "The Body is a Vessel" in my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL. www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc.... @fieldmouse.press

A page from "The Body is a Vessel" in my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL. www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc.... @fieldmouse.press

Submissions OPEN for the Wisconsin Poetry Series @uwiscpress.bsky.social ! Daniel Borzutzky is this year's judge for the Wisconsin Translation Prize! Airea D. Matthews for the Brittingham and Pollak Prize. Finalists are also chosen for publication! wicw.submittable.com/submit

A page from "Birds" in the new issue of Five Points ! It will also be in on my forthcoming graphic memoir HOUSEHOLD GODS @fieldmouse.press fivepoints.gsu.edu/issue/five-p...

Meanwhile the river—

Folks who are on Instagram, too! I have 2 accounts there with different content. @jlkerche is travel photos, writing news, a drawing now and then. @jesseleekercheval is my new all comics/ graphic narrative account. You can follow me at both!

Meanwhile the river—

Meanwhile urban shade—

Folks who are on Instagram, too! I have 2 accounts there with different content. @jlkerche is travel photos, writing news, a drawing now and then. @jesseleekercheval is my new all comics/ graphic narrative account. You can follow me at both!

A page from my graphic memoir "Mythic" in the new issue of the @senecareview.bsky.social --

Meanwhile urban shade—

Meanwhile the river—

Summer--

Summer--

A page from "Birds" in the new issue of Five Points ! It will also be in on my forthcoming graphic memoir HOUSEHOLD GODS @fieldmouse.press fivepoints.gsu.edu/issue/five-p...