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Jess Hagemann

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Jess Hagemann’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror from Texas Women, Three Seasons of Winter, and Last Girls Club, among others. Her debut novel Headcheese (2018) won an IPPY Award in Horror. Her sophomore novel Mother-Eating (2025) marries Marie Antoinette and cults. Jess received her MFA from the Jack Kerouac School, and has been awarded a teaching fellowship at McNeese State University as well as a writing residency at Dear Butte. She lives in Austin.

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	Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga by Lindy Ryan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christina Henry (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Gwendolyn Kiste (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.76 avg rating — 718 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Headcheese 3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghoulish Tales Issue #2 by Various, Max Booth III (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lori Michelle (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.27 avg rating — 33 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6: Femme Fatales by P.J. Hoover (Goodreads Author), M.J. Addy, Jessica Lee Anderson 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother-Eating it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — expected publication 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispers: Healing and Triumph after Sexual Assault 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Precipice: Writing at the Edge by Jess Hagemann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jade Lascelles (Editor), Kristen Wedlock (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resurrection 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Tiny Threads: Stories about American Marriage (Untellable Tales Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	POSTMARKS ON OUR FOREHEADS: Hospice Care Patients, Memory Care Patients, and the People Who Love Them it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jess Hagemann and 1792 other people liked Nin's review of Pageboy: "I always feel so weird giving someone's memoir a 'star rating', particularly if it is someone I like or someone who's had a pretty rough time of it. Elliot Page is both those things, and I was really looking forward to this, read it in a day and felt" Read more of this review »
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Jess Hagemann rated a book really liked it Pageboy by Elliot Page	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The first 30% was a five-star read for me; the last 70% was 3 star. As compelled as I was by the book’s opening chapters, I felt the non-chronological structure and almost journal-like nature of later entries diluted the power of Page’s story.
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Jess Hagemann rated a book it was amazing Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jess Hagemann rated a book it was amazing The Cipher by Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Gripped from page 1, I finished this book convinced: 1) Koja is a master storyteller; 2) Meerkat Press was brilliant to reissue her work; and 3) true horror is timeless when it reflects back the ugliest monster there is—ourselves. In THE CIPHER, two ...more
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Like going on a long, quiet walk with an intelligent friend who, in occasionally pointing out natural marvels you didn’t even notice because you were lost in your own thoughts, reminds you the world is more magnificent and magickal than you give it c ...more
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Some truly beautiful and disturbing work here, and some just-okay stuff. I appreciated the stories that moved away from tired "bad mother" tropes like Munchausen syndrome by proxy and into new territory. The puppet story stuck out for me, as did the ...more
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Jess Hagemann rated a book it was amazing Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 9: YA by David Bowles (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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