Joanna Pearson

Our contributor Joanna Pearson, psychiatrist and fiction writer, on how her day job relates to her writing life.

Yesterday, we featured the first part of our pas de deux between authors Joanna Pearson and Jillian Weiss, whose story and essay have eerily similar content, with both references to the devil and to kids in care of the state/foster system.

When we realized we’d be publishing both Joanna Pearson’s story “The Films of Roman Polanski” and Jillian Weiss’s essay “Invisible Man Asshole,” we knew we wanted the two pieces in conversation together

Associate Editor Molly Reid: It’s proofreading time here at The Cincinnati Review, which means we have our colored pencils out and our screens open to The Chicago Manual of Style. It also means we have a chance to do a deep read of the entire 16.1 issue. In addition to the joy of finding errors …