Jessie Chaffee

    Jessie Chaffee is the author of the novel Florence in Ecstasy, recently published in Italy as La mia fame è troppo amore (Rizzoli/Fabbri) and forthcoming in five languages. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to Italy to complete the novel and was the writer-in-residence at Florence University of the Arts. She lives in New York City and is an editor at Words Without Borders. Find her at www.JessieChaffee.com.

    Articles by the author

    FOOD + WINE

    Learning to love food again in Florence

    There was a time in my life when food and my body became the enemy, when every meal was an accounting—I would break up my day’s rations into a mental ...

    ART + CULTURE

    Lost causes at the Festival of St. Rita

    Each year on May 22 the Basilica of St. Rita in the Italian hill town of Cascia is filled with roses, blessed in honor of the fifteenth-century woman whose body ...

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