“Full Grown People is my new appendage. I’ve dragged it everywhere, reading each essay again and again, reliving their surprises and sorrow and humor (in my case, the snort-laugh variety). As individual pieces, they tackle the joys and challenges of this beautiful mess of a life—fear, faith, class, health, healing, staying/going, kids/no kids, and love in its wild and myriad forms. Taken together, they challenge us to consider what happens after the coming of age, posing questions of this world that I didn’t know I had and giving me a part of myself that I didn’t know was missing. Jennifer Niesslein has done the impossible with this anthology: inspiring us not just to survive this life, but to live the holy hell out of it.” —Megan Stielstra, author of Once I Was Cool Available here! Full Grown People’s first book! An anthology of thirty essays from the site, The Greatest Hits, Volume 1 takes you on a tour around the awkward ages in adulthood. The Writer magazine says Full Grown People publishes “powerful personal essays that examine the human experience with candor and wit.”
Authors
Zahie El Kouri writes about infertility and immigrant culture, sharing her experience of surviving infertility through personal essays and articles that address with humor, intellect, and empathy the needs and concerns of infertile women. As the child of a Syrian/Lebanese/Palestinian father and an Italian mother she has a special interest in the experience of second-generation immigrants, particularly those whose parents come from countries near the Mediterranean. Zahie has taught creative writing at the University of North Florida and the University of Oregon Law School and legal writing at Santa Clara University and Florida Coastal School of Law. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New School University and her work has appeared in Mizna, a Journal of Arab American writing, Memoir (and), and Dinarzad’s Children: an Anthology of Arab-American literature. New personal essays are forthcoming in Brain, Child: the Magazine for Thinking Mothers and Garbanzo Literary Journal.
