Publications
Jennifer Jussel writes about disability and chronic illness, type 1 diabetes, family, and the many places that can become home. Her first book is forthcoming October 20, 2026. Published essays, poems, and academic works are listed below.
Interviews and Press for Mellitus and Preorder Link
Mellitus: Essays on Up/Rooting. Howling Bird Press, 2026.
"2026 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize Winner Interview: Jennifer Jussel." Howling Bird Press, 2026.
Literary Magazines
"I Enjoy Eating Everything." Spectrum Literary Magazine, vol. 69, 2026.
"Diabetes mellitus." Radar Poetry, vol. 44, 2026.
"Keepsakes (Print Edition)." Booth, vol. 20, 2025, pp. 174-188.
"This One Small Thing Will Fix Your Sex Life." Cleaver, vol. 44, 2023.
"Keepsakes (Online Edition)." Booth, 2023.
"The Stranger." The Santa Clara Review, vol. 110, no. 2, 2023, pp. 91-97. *Nominated for 2024 Pushcart Prize and 2024 Best of the Net Award.
"Baby Teeth." Blood Orange Review, vol. 14, no. 1, 2022.
"Cutting Claws." The Swamp Literary Magazine, vol. 5, 2021.
"The New York Phase." Allegory Ridge, 2020.
"Morning Coffee." Spokane Public Radio Poetry Moment, 2020.
Conference Papers
"No Agency Without Crip Futurity: Restoration vs. Adaptation in the Quick Time Events of The Last of Us Part II." The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Conference, Lubbock, TX, April 2026.
"Tutorial for the End of the World: Post-Apocalyptic Video Game Protagonists as Disabled Models for Adaptability." Southwest Popular and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2025. *Winner of 2025 Heldrich Dvorak Travel Award. Paper version forthcoming October 2026.
"A Right to Choose, a Right to Know the Options: Promoting Translingual Policy in the English Composition Classroom and Throughout the University." Eastern Washington University Student Research Symposium, Cheney, WA, June 2020.