1. Jessa Crispin has published four books, most recently My Three Dads.
10 Facts About Jessa Crispin
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Jessa Crispin attended Baker University in Kansas for two years before leaving without a degree.
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Jessa Crispin began her literary career as publishing outsider who started her blog Bookslut on the side while working at Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas.
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Jessa Crispin eventually came to support herself by writing and editing the site full-time.
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In 2005, Jessa Crispin kept a diary about her work on books for The Guardian.
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Jessa Crispin had a regular column in the online cultural journal The Smart Set, published by Drexel University.
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Jessa Crispin was a book critic for NPR and contributor to PBS's Need to Know.
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Jessa Crispin has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times and The Globe and Mail, among other publications.
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Jessa Crispin wrote the afterword to Melville House Books' reissue of Heinrich Boll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
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In 2018, Jessa Crispin married Nicolas Rodriguez Melo, partly in order to sponsor his visa, and interviewed him for her Public Intellectual podcast about the performance of masculinity and femininity.