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style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer and teacher</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Florida_State_University" title="Florida State University">Florida State University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Iowa_Writers%27_Workshop" title="Iowa Writers' Workshop">Iowa Writers' Workshop</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">MFA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1987–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Textbook" title="Textbook">textbook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nonfiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonfiction">nonfiction</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Memoir" title="Memoir">memoir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Translation" title="Translation">translation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>The Museum of Happiness</i>, <i>The Dogeater</i>, <i>Space</i>, <i>Underground Women</i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jlkercheval.com">jlkercheval<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jesse Lee Kercheval</b> (born 1956) is an American poet, memoirist, translator, fiction writer and visual artist. She is an emeritus professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a>. She is the author of numerous books, notably <i>Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, Space</i> and <i>Underground Women</i>, and she is a translator of Uruguayan poetry. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kercheval was born in <a href="/wiki/Fontainebleau" title="Fontainebleau">Fontainebleau</a>, France, to American parents. Raised in <a href="/wiki/Cocoa,_Florida" title="Cocoa, Florida">Cocoa, Florida</a>, she attended <a href="/wiki/Florida_State_University" title="Florida State University">Florida State University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tallahassee" class="mw-redirect" title="Tallahassee">Tallahassee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, where she studied with <a href="/wiki/Janet_Burroway" title="Janet Burroway">Janet Burroway</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Kirby_(poet)" title="David Kirby (poet)">David Kirby</a>, and Jerome Stern. She received her Bachelor of Arts in history at the university in 1983. </p><p>Kercheval earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the <a href="/wiki/Iowa_Writers%27_Workshop" title="Iowa Writers' Workshop">Iowa Writers' Workshop</a> in 1986. She then taught at <a href="/wiki/DePauw_University" title="DePauw University">DePauw University</a> in Indiana for a year. </p><p>Since 1987, she has been a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She was the founding director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, the <a href="/wiki/Zona_Gale" title="Zona Gale">Zona Gale</a> Professor of English, and the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She lives in Wisconsin.<sup id="cite_ref-officialsite_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialsite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_stories">Short stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Short stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kercheval's first published book, a collection of <a href="/wiki/Short_stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Short stories">short stories</a> titled <i>The Dogeater</i>, won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was reprinted with additional material as <i>Underground Women</i> in 2019. </p><p>Kercheval's one-page <a href="/wiki/Short_short_story" class="mw-redirect" title="Short short story">short short story</a>, <i>Carpathia</i>, first published in Jerome Stern's <i>Micro Fiction</i> (1996), is widely anthologized and used in creative writing texts. It is the story of a married couple on board the <i>Carpathia</i>, the ship that rescued passengers from the Titanic. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kercheval's first novel is <i>The Museum of Happiness</i>, a story about a young widow and a half-Alsatian, half-German carnival worker falling in love in Paris in 1929. A German translation was published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in 1997. <i>The Museum of Happiness</i> was reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. </p><p>Her 2007 novel-in-stories <i>The Alice Stories</i> won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. "By turns hilarious and devastating, <i>The Alice Stories</i> form a tender and poetic chronicle of one woman's journey through time, love, motherhood, and Wisconsin. It is a marvelous example of how connected stories can, even more effectively than a novel, evoke a life in all its ranging, episodic, and emotional complexity."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her 2010 novella <i>Brazil</i> follows Paulo, a 19-year-old Miami bellboy, and Claudia, a 40-something Hungarian refugee, on a road trip. "The novella is set in the late 1980s, and its opening scenes take place in Miami during the era of <a href="/wiki/Miami_Vice" title="Miami Vice">Miami Vice</a>, when South Beach was still tacky enough to provide an interesting springboard for a story like this one. However, <i>Brazil</i> doesn't linger in Miami for long; instead it roams from Florida to Wisconsin in a shiny black BMW."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kercheval's 2013 novel <i>My Life as a Silent Movie</i> centers around the life of 42-year-old Emma, who flies to Paris after losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident. She then discovers that she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren't the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. The novel won the 2013 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Nonfiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Space</i> is Kercheval's memoir about her childhood and the <a href="/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a>. It was first published by <a href="/wiki/Algonquin_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Algonquin Books">Algonquin Books</a> in 1998, and has been reissued several times. </p><p>The writing textbook <i>Building Fiction:How to Develop Plot and Structure</i> was published in 1997 by <a href="/wiki/F%26W_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="F&W Publications">Story Press</a> and reissued by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin-Madison_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin-Madison Press">University of Wisconsin-Madison Press</a>. It discusses sources for fiction, openings, points-of-view, characters and endings. It also discusses <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novella" title="Novella">novellas</a>, novels-in-stories and <a href="/wiki/Short_Story" class="mw-redirect" title="Short Story">short stories</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kercheval has published seven collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. The first collection was <i>World as Dictionary</i> (1999), and the latest is <i>I Want to Tell You</i> (2023).<sup id="cite_ref-Jesse_Lee_Kercheval_poetry_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jesse_Lee_Kercheval_poetry-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2011 she has written poems in Spanish which have been published in Uruguay in the books <i>Torres</i> and <i>Extranjera</i> as well as in U.S. literary magazines.<sup id="cite_ref-Jesse_Lee_Kercheval_poetry_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jesse_Lee_Kercheval_poetry-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A selection of her English-language poetry was translated into Spanish and published bilingually in Argentina in 2020<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in Uruguay in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spanish_Translations_&_Anthologies"><span id="Spanish_Translations_.26_Anthologies"></span>Spanish Translations & Anthologies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Spanish Translations & Anthologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kercheval has published translations from Spanish of the Uruguayan poets <a href="/wiki/Circe_Maia" title="Circe Maia">Circe Maia</a>, Silvia Guerra, Mariella Nigro, Fabián Severo, Luis Bravo, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Javier Etchevarren, Tatiana Oroño and <a href="/wiki/Idea_Vilari%C3%B1o" title="Idea Vilariño">Idea Vilariño</a>. She has edited or co-edited the bilingual anthologies <i>América invertida: an anthology of emerging Uruguayan poets</i>, <i>Trusting on the wide air: poems of Uruguay</i><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Flores Raras</i>, a Spanish-only anthology of Uruguayan women poets born between 1845 and 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art_Work">Art Work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Art Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Kercheval took up drawing because she “wanted to do something that wasn’t just sitting on the computer reading bad news all day”.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her drawings have been published as graphic narratives in literary magazines, notably <a href="/wiki/Image_(journal)" title="Image (journal)">Image</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/New_Letters" title="New Letters">New Letters</a> (Editor’s Choice Award, Winter/Spring 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/New_Ohio_Review" title="New Ohio Review">New Ohio Review</a> (winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Contest).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her graphic memoir <i>French Girl</i> was published by Fieldmouse Press in 2024. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Her memoir, <i>Space</i>, won the <a href="/wiki/Alex_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Alex Award">Alex Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Dogeater</i> won the Associated Writing Programs Award 1986 in Short Fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Alice Stories</i> won the <a href="/wiki/Prairie_Schooner_Fiction_Book_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize">Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-officialsite_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialsite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her novella, <i>Brazil</i>, was the winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest.<sup id="cite_ref-officialsite_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-officialsite-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/David_Wojahn" title="David Wojahn">David Wojahn</a> selected her poetry collection <i>Cinema Muto</i> for the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award. Her chapbook <i>Film History as a Train Wreck</i> was chosen by <a href="/wiki/Albert_Goldbarth" title="Albert Goldbarth">Albert Goldbarth</a> as the winner of the 2006 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> And <a href="/wiki/Ilya_Kaminsky" title="Ilya Kaminsky">Ilya Kaminsky</a> chose <i>America, that Island off the coast of France</i> as the 2017 winner of the Dorset Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and translation.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_(as_author)"><span id="Works_.28as_author.29"></span>Works (as author)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Works (as author)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Dogeater</i>, short stories, (<a href="/wiki/1987_in_literature" title="1987 in literature">1987</a>) (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0826206328" title="Special:BookSources/0826206328">0826206328</a>)</li> <li><i>The Museum of Happiness</i>, novel, (<a href="/wiki/1993_in_literature" title="1993 in literature">1993</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/057119821X" title="Special:BookSources/057119821X">057119821X</a>)</li> <li><i>Building Fiction: How To Develop Plot and Structure</i>, textbook, (<a href="/wiki/1997_in_literature" title="1997 in literature">1997</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1884910289" title="Special:BookSources/1884910289">1884910289</a>)</li> <li><i>Space: A Memoir</i>, (<a href="/wiki/1998_in_literature" title="1998 in literature">1998</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1565121465" title="Special:BookSources/1565121465">1565121465</a>)</li> <li><i>World as Dictionary</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/1999_in_poetry" title="1999 in poetry">1999</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0887482856" title="Special:BookSources/0887482856">0887482856</a>)</li> <li><i>Dog Angel</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/2004_in_poetry" title="2004 in poetry">2004</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0822958406" title="Special:BookSources/0822958406">0822958406</a>)</li> <li><i>Chartreuse</i>, poetry chapbook, (<a href="/wiki/2005_in_poetry" title="2005 in poetry">2005</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0975257390" title="Special:BookSources/0975257390">0975257390</a>)</li> <li><i>Film History as Train Wreck</i>, poetry chapbook, (<a href="/wiki/2006_in_poetry" title="2006 in poetry">2006</a>)</li> <li><i>The Alice Stories</i>, short stories, (<a href="/wiki/2007_in_literature" title="2007 in literature">2007</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780803211353" title="Special:BookSources/9780803211353">9780803211353</a> )</li> <li><i>Cinema Muto</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/2009_in_poetry" title="2009 in poetry">2009</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780809328956" title="Special:BookSources/9780809328956">9780809328956</a>)</li> <li><i>Brazil</i>, novella, (<a href="/wiki/2010_in_literature" title="2010 in literature">2010</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781880834862" title="Special:BookSources/9781880834862">9781880834862</a>)</li> <li><i>My Life as a Silent Movie</i>, novel, (<a href="/wiki/2013_in_literature" title="2013 in literature">2013</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780253010247" title="Special:BookSources/9780253010247">9780253010247</a>)</li> <li><i>Torres/Towers</i>, poetry chapbook, (<a href="/wiki/2014_in_poetry" title="2014 in poetry">2014</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789974719019" title="Special:BookSources/9789974719019">9789974719019</a>)</li> <li><i>Extranjera = Stranger</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/2015_in_poetry" title="2015 in poetry">2015</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789974719170" title="Special:BookSources/9789974719170">9789974719170</a>) and (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781944884147" title="Special:BookSources/9781944884147">9781944884147</a>)</li> <li><i>Underground Women</i>, short stories, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_literature" title="2019 in literature">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780299323943" title="Special:BookSources/9780299323943">9780299323943</a>)</li> <li><i>Jabko</i>, poetry chapbook, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788089763474" title="Special:BookSources/9788089763474">9788089763474</a>)</li> <li><i>America that island off the coast of France</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781946482242" title="Special:BookSources/9781946482242">9781946482242</a>)</li> <li><i>Year by Year: a life</i>, poetry chapbook, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>)</li> <li><i>La crisis es el cuerpo</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/2020_in_poetry" title="2020 in poetry">2021</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789874785718" title="Special:BookSources/9789874785718">9789874785718</a>) also published as <i>Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada</i>, (<a href="/wiki/2023_in_poetry" title="2023 in poetry">2023</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789915676197" title="Special:BookSources/9789915676197">9789915676197</a>)</li> <li><i>I Want to Tell You</i>, poetry, (<a href="/wiki/2023_in_poetry" title="2023 in poetry">2023</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780822967071" title="Special:BookSources/9780822967071">9780822967071</a>)</li> <li><i>French Girl</i>, graphic memoir, (<a href="/w/index.php?title=2024_in_Autobiographical_comics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2024 in Autobiographical comics (page does not exist)">2024</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781956636383" title="Special:BookSources/9781956636383">9781956636383</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_(as_translator_or_editor)"><span id="Works_.28as_translator_or_editor.29"></span>Works (as translator or editor)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Works (as translator or editor)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The invisible bridge = El puente invisible</i>, editor & translator, (<a href="/wiki/2015_in_poetry" title="2015 in poetry">2015</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780822963820" title="Special:BookSources/9780822963820">9780822963820</a>)</li> <li><i>América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets</i>, editor, (<a href="/wiki/2016_in_poetry" title="2016 in poetry">2016</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780826357250" title="Special:BookSources/9780826357250">9780826357250</a>)</li> <li><i>Tierra, cielo y agua: antología de poesía medio ambiental = Earth, water and sky: an anthology of environmental poetry</i>, editor, (<a href="/wiki/2016_in_poetry" title="2016 in poetry">2016</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789974719422" title="Special:BookSources/9789974719422">9789974719422</a>)</li> <li><i>Confiado a un amplio aire = Trusting on the Wide Air</i>, co-editor, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781944884659" title="Special:BookSources/9781944884659">9781944884659</a>)</li> <li><i>Volver en tinta = Reborn in Ink</i>, co-editor & co-translator, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781944585310" title="Special:BookSources/9781944585310">9781944585310</a>)</li> <li><i>Fábula de un hombre desconsolado = Fable of an Inconsolable Man</i>, translator, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780900575952" title="Special:BookSources/9780900575952">9780900575952</a>)</li> <li><i>Mis Razones: mujeres poetas del Uruguay</i>, co-editor, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_literature" title="2019 in literature">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789974726116" title="Special:BookSources/9789974726116">9789974726116</a>)</li> <li><i>Confiado a un amplio aire = Trusting on the Wide Air</i>, co-editor, (<a href="/wiki/2019_in_poetry" title="2019 in poetry">2019</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781944884659" title="Special:BookSources/9781944884659">9781944884659</a>)</li> <li><i>Poemas de Amor = Love Poems</i>, translator, (<a href="/wiki/2020_in_poetry" title="2020 in poetry">2020</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780822966258" title="Special:BookSources/9780822966258">9780822966258</a>)</li> <li><i>Naturaleza muerta con derrotas = Still Life With Defeats</i>, editor & translator, (<a href="/wiki/2020_in_poetry" title="2020 in poetry">2020</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781945680366" title="Special:BookSources/9781945680366">9781945680366</a>)</li> <li><i>Noite nu Norte = Night in the North</i>, co-editor & co-translator, (<a href="/wiki/2020_in_poetry" title="2020 in poetry">2020</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781732936348" title="Special:BookSources/9781732936348">9781732936348</a>)</li> <li><i>La voz y la sombra = Voice and Shadow</i>, co-editor & co-translator, (<a href="/wiki/2020_in_poetry" title="2020 in poetry">2020</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781944884758" title="Special:BookSources/9781944884758">9781944884758</a>)</li> <li><i>Memoria y Reescritura = Memory Rewritten</i>, co-editor & co-translator, (<a href="/wiki/2023_in_poetry" title="2023 in poetry">2023</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781945680625" title="Special:BookSources/9781945680625">9781945680625</a>)</li> <li><i>Flores Raras [escondido país] poesía de mujeres uruguayas</i>, co-editor, (<a href="/wiki/2023_in_poetry" title="2023 in poetry">2023</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789915676043" title="Special:BookSources/9789915676043">9789915676043</a>)</li> <li><i>A Sea at Dawn</i>, co-translator, (<a href="/wiki/2023_in_poetry" title="2023 in poetry">2023</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9798986353913" title="Special:BookSources/9798986353913">9798986353913</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Lee_Kercheval&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output 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