R. Jean Bell

When did you start writing?

I poked at it a time or two when I was younger, but I first did any serious attempts at writing in college. Then I stopped for several years, started again when my health failed, got frustrated because of my health and stopped again, then finally got seriously back to writing in 2017.

When and what and where did you first get published?

I did have some stuff in my college lit journal, but I don't really count that.

I had a few things around the same time. A flash piece in Cast of Wonders that placed in their contest, a poem in Parabnormal Magazine, and a poem placing second in the Baltimore Science Fiction Society competition. All of them came out in the spring of 2019.

What themes do you like to write about?

This is a tricky one. I'd like to think my work varies a lot, but it doesn't really. Death shows up a lot, as in this poem (my mother died in 2018 and I've been dealing with my grief in my writing). I also have a lot relating to defying cultural norms and expectations and dealing with health issues and depression. Also various forms of abuse.

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