Just published: this essay in which I try to account for the strange hold Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park has on my psyche.
Simple Girl: The Improbable Solace of “Mansfield Park” | The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Mansfield Park
Anna Keesey is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and has held residencies at MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and Provincetown. Keesey teaches English and creative writing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.
