Jeanette Horn holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Maytag Fellowship, a Teaching/Writing Fellowship, and was named a finalist for Poetry’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.
Jeanette’s poetry has appeared in MARGIE, Poetry International, Stand, Washington Square, and other journals.
Horn's debut novel is Play, With Knives.
At Electric Lit the author tagged nine "novels set in the theatrical world [that] are all a little twisted in some way." One entry on the list:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelRead about another novel on the list.
You’ve likely heard of this speculative hit, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2014 and was recently named a “Best Book of the 21st Century” by The New York Times. The novel is about a Shakespearean theater troupe traveling the Great Lakes region 15 years after a flu pandemic decimated the world’s population and, with it, civilization. Their tour takes them to a town controlled by a dangerous prophet who they must overcome to save their lives and the lives of others. Along the way, they risk everything for art.
Station Eleven is among Isabelle McConville's fifteen books for fans of the post-apocalyptic TV-drama Fallout, Joanna Quinn's six best books set in & around the theatrical world, Carolyn Quimby's 38 best dystopian novels, Tara Sonin's seven books for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, Maggie Stiefvater's five fantasy books about artists & the magic of creativity, Mark Skinner's five top literary dystopias, Claudia Gray's five essential books about plagues and pandemics, K Chess's five top fictional books inside of real books, Rebecca Kauffman's ten top musical novels, Nathan Englander’s ten favorite books, M.L. Rio’s five top novels inspired by Shakespeare, Anne Corlett's five top books with different takes on the apocalypse, Christopher Priest’s five top sci-fi books that make use of music, and Anne Charnock's five favorite books with fictitious works of art.
--Marshal Zeringue
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