Jeanette Horn holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Maytag Fellowship, a Teaching/Writing Fellowship, and was named a finalist for Poetry’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.
Jeanette’s poetry has appeared in MARGIE, Poetry International, Stand, Washington Square, and other journals.
Horn's debut novel is Play, With Knives.
At Electric Lit the author tagged nine "novels set in the theatrical world [that] are all a little twisted in some way." One entry on the list:
A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan HawkeRead about the other novels on the list.
Yes, that Ethan Hawke, but drop your preconceptions, because this book is fantastic. It’s about an actor navigating the aftermath of his failed marriage and turning to all the wrong things—booze, sex, rage, self-hatred—all while performing in a Broadway production of Henry IV. Actors say Hawke’s descriptions of what it’s really like to be onstage are the best they’ve read. The book is messy and hilarious and a poetic tribute to the healing power of art. It’s based loosely on events in Hawke’s life, so there’s a gossipy element too.
--Marshal Zeringue
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