Jennifer Knopp Leeper is an award-winning fiction author. Ms. Leeper’s fiction includes Padre, a novella published by J. Burrage Publications. In 2012, Ms. Leeper was awarded the Catoctin Mountain Artist-in-Residency, and in 2013, Ms. Leeper was a Tuscany Prize Novella Award finalist through Tuscany Press for her short novel, Tribe. Ms. Leeper’s short story Tatau, was published by Alternating Current Press in the journal, Poiesis, and was shortlisted as a finalist for the Luminaire Award in 2015. Ms. Leeper’s short story, The Gospel of Chloride, won a 2015 Tuscany Short Story Award honorable mention through Tuscany Press.
Someone took the red bench in the park where the old men of Coldwater once sat broadcasting their thinning memories on low cackling voices. They naturally migrated to the spot where the bench had been affixed to a square of… Continue Reading