About Jessica O'Dwyer
Jessica O'Dwyer
Jessica O’Dwyer is author of Mother Mother (2021 San Diego Book Award for fiction; finalist, 2021 National Indie Excellence Award) and Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir (2011 San Diego Book Award for memoir). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Scary Mommy. An alum of the Squaw Valley and Bread Loaf writers’ conferences, Jessica earned an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles. She lives in Marin County, California.
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June 28th, 2022 | by Jessica O'Dwyer
We’d arrived at the drop zone in the early morning, ready for my boyfriend to teach me to tandem jump.