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Tea and Sympathy

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Jillian Damiani
Apr 15, 2026
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Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “Tea and Sympathy” by Jillian Damiani. Jillian is a writer based in New York City. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University and was recently a finalist for the Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her work is published or forthc…

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Arthritic and street haunting. Jillian Damiani is an essayist and memoirist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Compulsive Reader, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is at work on a novel.
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