Essays

Jennifer Case’s essays have appeared widely in literary journals, environmental journals, and online venues. Explore selected publications below.

Continue to Be: A Response to Roe

Terrain.org, July 2022

“The Mother-Infant Dyad.”

North American Review, Spring 2022

Message for the Animal Mother

DIAGRAM, Spring 2022

On Race and Motherhood in America.”

About Place Journal, May 2021

A Political Pregnancy.

The Rumpus, January 2020

“Animals on the Eve of Extinction.”

Dark Mountain, Spring 2020

On Breast Pumps and Bovines.”

The Museum of Americana, Summer 2019

“On Contemplating a Second Child.”

Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2019

“We Are Animals.”

Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring 2018

On the Silence of Regret.”

Literary Mama, April 2018

“BabyCenter: An Essay on Place.”

Orion, July/August 2016

Additional work can be found in The Hopper, Sou’wester, Third Coast, Fourth River, Zone 3, Poetry East, ISLE,  Poet LoreWater~Stone Review, Split Rock Review, Stone Canoe, Hawk & HandsawStirring: A Literary Collectionand Cold Mountain Review.