Jane Wageman

Jane Wageman holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University and is currently a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute in Minnesota. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Wigleaf, Monkeybicycle, trampset, and others. She writes about teaching, writing, and craft at the Substack Quick Bright Things.

July

She had kept it in her hand, the firecracker, and it had gone off with a BANG so loud that everything—the screams, the adults’ questions after, the boombox music, everything in her head—went quiet. Just a little Black Cat, just a stick meant to spark and explode. They were all lighting firecrackers, all of the kids, past third base, with… Read more →