Jeannine Ouellette

About Jeannine

Jeannine Ouellette’s lyric memoir, The Part That Burns, was a 2021 Kirkus Best Indie Book and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Women’s Literature. Her essays and short fiction have appeared widely in anthologies and journals, including Narrative, North American Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Masters Review,  and others. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a Millay Colony for the Arts fellow and past juror. Her bestselling Substack, Writing in the Dark, is a passionate creative community of people who “do language,” where writing is part of a deeper, vaster conversation about how attention, curiosity, playfulness, and surprise provide a portal to the profound on the path to becoming, because talking about “how to write better” without that larger context is kind of boring. In addition to teaching on Substack, Ouellette teaches in person at Writing in the Dark: The School, the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and the University of Minnesota, where she also facilitates narrative health writing workshops. She is working on a craft book and a novel.