Jennifer Case

Jennifer Case is the author of Sawbill: A Search for Place published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2018. Her essays have appeared in journals such as the Rumpus, Orion, Michigan Quarterly Review, Literary Mama, and North American Review. She teaches at the University of Central Arkansas and serves as the Assistant Nonfiction Editor of Terrain.org.

Nonfiction – Issue 30

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•A Cost Accounting of Birth

In contrast to the Old Testament, which blamed the pain of childbirth on sin, evolutionary biologists in the late twentieth century proposed the obstetrical dilemma.