Jenny Boully is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in General Nonfiction. She is the author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life (Coffee House Press). Her previous books include not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, [one love affair]* (both Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays (Sarabande Books), of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures (Coconut Books), and The Body: An Essay (Essay Press).