‘Virginia I was so scared that my body’ by Jessica Dawn Zinz

Notes /Materials:  

collaged images primarily from National Geographic National Geographic (April 1990 Vol 177 No 4); National Geographic (June 2023) 

text sourced from Newsweek Special Double Issue (Dec 31 2001/Jan 7 2002) [September 11th Issue]; Newsweek (September 24 2001) [“After the Terror: God Bless America] 


Jessica Dawn Zinz (she/her) is a writer, artist, and professor living in Ohio. She has a Creative Writing MFA and teaches writing at Bowling Green State University. Her poetry, artwork, and visual poems have been published most recently in TAB Journal, ctrl+v journal, RHINO Poetry, and Harpy Hybrid Review. Her work has been anthologized in the Driftwood 2024 Anthology. She has work forthcoming in Diode. Jessica is currently working on visual poetry, collage poetry, and other hybrid writing and art related to aging, pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage. Instagram: @jessicadawnzinzart.