Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York. Her work leans towards experimental historical fiction that interrogates the tension between language's utility & malleability.
2025 Readings
August 15 - C.S. Miller Books, Norwich, NY
August 24 - Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY, 2p
September 9 - KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St., New York, NY, 7p
with Daisuke Shen, Steven Alvarez, & Dawn Raffel
September 21 - Brooklyn Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY
November 22 - Dan Levy Lives! event at Block Hill Station, 718 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 2-4p
with Alana Capria, David Leo Rice, Andrew Farkas, William Lessard, & Elizeya Quate