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Jennifer Anne Moses I’m a writer as well as a painter. According to Google, I am a “multi genre” writer–but it’s more than a matter of genre. I internalize different worlds and voices, and eventually it all bubbles up into my work. Recently published:
"You’ve Told Me Before proves,
if proof were needed after her first wonderful foray into this specialized
literary field, that Jennifer Anne Moses is a master of the short
story genre." "In straightforward language, Moses
portrays characters who are ordinary and who, despite being affluent
and successful, stumble through life. They are interesting because
of their flawed inner selves, which are depicted with both empathy
and gentle ridicule. Jewish characters and references abound, with
many people bearing “the weight of four thousand years of Jewish
history and untold distant European relatives who’d gone up
in smoke." “Moses creates characters who are flummoxed and struggling, whether with their souls, tragedy, family, loneliness, or neighbors. Throughout, her voice is breathtaking. It carries us through time and is as palpable and real as her characters. The reader follows it, enchanted.” — S.L. Wisenberg, author of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch “Moses has the great writer’s gift: she deftly peels back the skin of ordinary lives—the follies, the griefs, the passing ecstasies—to reveal the tremors of yearning beneath.” — Benjamin Balint, author of Bruno Schulz “I haven’t laughed so hard or as guiltily at my people’s misfortunes, missteps, and misadventures since the first time I read Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Envy; or, Yiddish in America.’ The things Moses writes about in this impossible-to-put-down collection are either 100% true or true enough, and were I not feeling so guilty, believe me, I’d be laughing much, much louder.” — Paul Goldberg, author of The Dissident
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