Jennifer—em Dash—Graham

@jgriffingraham.bsky.social

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Author of the VERONICA MARS books and the upcoming YA thriller THE FALL OF IRIS HENLEY. She/her.

Black and white mutt in his kennel, looking balefully up at me
A porcupine being hand fed fireweed through a cage
Vintage man on bicycle figurine
The Van Gilder Hotel in Seward Alaska: it is small, shabby, old, and for one night, ours
Crispy chicken, pulpog, and pork adobo from the Filipino take out place
Poster for FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF with Matthew Broderick looking criminally smug
Movie poster for MATILDA (1996) starring Danny Devito, Mara Wilson, and Rhea Perlman
A store display of stick on letters. Some neurodivergent crafter has used the letters to spell out the word “autism” on the base of the display.
A handmade drive-in screen made for a bunch of Hot Wheels, showing the scene from THE JERK where Steve Martin says “he hates these cans!” while a random gunman tries to shoot at him, drawn in stick-figures.
Bicolor tabby in a large window where she reigns without challenge
Bicolor tabby curled in a soft bed, looking like a comfy queen
Cloak and Dagger movie poster with protagonist Davey next to his imaginary spy friend Jack Flack, in a set of crosshairs
Screenshot of weather app showing the forecast for Anchorage, where it’s in the 50s and raining all week
Screenshot from user adhdmenopausetherapist from threads that reads: perimenopause with ADHD is healing my inner child by letting her finally be a disappointment to people she never liked anyway.
Screenshot from the Portland subreddit: a flyer on a glass door that reads “LOCATION PERMANENTLY CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR DECADES OF FUN! VISIT US AT SPARTACUSLEATHERS.COM”
Selfie showing the graphic on my new shirt, featuring a punk in fishnet and boots wielding a chainsaw while also kicking the shit out of a robot. Visible text says “DESTROY ‘A.I.’ BAD AT EVERYTHING! KILLS THE PLANET!”
Tortie cat on bed, next to my foot, relaxed, not fleeing a rambunctious child or dog but sleeping comfortably next to me for once
Cover of ESCAPES by Joy Williams
A screenshot with a horse emoji that says “group chats are not yet available. Hold your horses! This feature isn’t available to you yet. Please check back later. It feels unnecessarily sassy.
A rubber hose style flock camera with a single eye flipping us off. He says “HEY TWEAKERS! MY NAME IS FLOCKY! I CONTAIN: 2 GRAMS GOLD, 2 LBS COPPER. THAT’S MORE THAN $300! YOWZA! CA-CHING!”
An orange shirt featuring a teddy bear wearing a strap-on dildo and leather cup-less bra, on a mannequin, in a store window. You can literally see the University of Texas clock tower in the window reflection.
The band Crucial Taunt starring Tia Carrera as Cassandra Wong in the movie WAYNE’S WORLD. She can really wail.
Actor Elias Koteas with a grubby tank top and long beautiful early 90s hair playing Casey Jones in TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990)
The area of south Austin with the shelter in place order
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Screenshot of Carine Hajjar, Opinion Journalist
Movie poster for SEND HELP with Rachel McAdams looking like a boss
The poster for MRS DOUBTFIRE, featuring Sally Field on one side of a door, with Robin Williams as the titular nanny and the three children peeking out from inside
A box of books. The title reads A LIE FOR A LIE, author Jennifer Donaldson
Cover pic for IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST by Cherie Priest, showing the silhouette of a spooky house against a red sun
Movie poster for LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
Bright orange tote bag on office chair
Letterpress style graphic that reads: “in order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent. —Marwan Makhoul”
Black and white mutt on old stained couch, ears flying overhead, lips very slack and drooling and perhaps explaining how the couch got so stained to start with
Black and white mutt on stained and sagging couch, sleeping so very soundly
Black and white mutt in distance of overgrown back yard. He looks very dignified and a little bossy.
The above map of Alaska with a red dot showing where Wasilla is in the Southcentral part of the state
Hotel room, except instead of the traditional cuck chair we have here a cuck chaise, perhaps in case the cuck needs to swoon
Tortie cat cupping a fluffy ball like a wizard pondering an orb, giving severe airplane ears.
Photo from the 2024 UT protests over Gaza, showing a bunch of fucking cops in tactical gear with their fucking batons out and ready. Foregrounded is an orange sign. It reads: “What starts here changes the changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day. Thank you for making it your Texas. Thank you for making it out Texas.” Down at the bottom is the fucking logo for UT Austin.
Pile of turtles in middle of algae-green pond. Some of them are red-eared sliders but I can’t see if they all are, because they are all huddled up.
Christopher Walken playing Johnny Smith from THE DEAD ZONE (1983), in process of lifting a rifle to take aim
An image showing my book THE FALL OF IRIS HENLEY. Text reads “a New York Times Bestseller!”
Screenshot from the show FREAKS AND GEEKS where a young Rashida Jones, playing high school terror Karen Scarfoli, sneers at a geek. Kim Kelly, played by my secret girlfriend Busy Philips, is in the background looking hungry for a fight. I would really love to be bullied by both of them.
Photo of a faux wood grain tabletop holding a latte and a copy of PURGATOIRE by Liz Prato
Despondent black and white mutt looking mournful
Photoshopped image of an Orange kitten in a toy car, against a background of a dirt road. The caption reads “skrrrt”
Enlarged image of the partisan-engagement chart showing how itty bitty teeny tiny the President’s name is next to Elon Musk’s much bigger circle
Cover of the book BLACK FLAME by Gretchen Felker-Martin, featuring a picture of a black-haired person with their eyes glowing sickly yellow-white, being strangled and choked by lengths of film. The book is in my hand, and in the background you can see a sunny backyard on a perfect Saturday morning to read on the patio.
An alert looking brown Carolina dog with pert ears and cute little face
Kima the tortie, sitting judgementally at a kitchen table, airplane ears deployed
Sign that reads WITCH PARKING ONLY: ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOAD
Black and white mutt on a stained gross loveseat, sorry, my life is not fit for the ‘Gram, but the mutt is so terribly exhausted and heartbroken he cannot even open his eyes. His body is half on a pillow and he looks like a cozy dumb baby.
You can just faintly see a dog face staring intensely out of a house window. He is so disappointed. Where have you been?
Tortie cat looking over her shoulder at me adjacent to a shaft of sunlight
Miss Piggy trying to pull apart the bars in jail in THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER
Cover of the novel ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME I, a green book with a prismatic light smear pictured on it
Mannequins wearing outfits from MEAN GIRLS
My tattooed arm with a tube carrying blood out of my vein
Sleepy medium sized black and white mutt wedged in the corner of the sectional, gazing vaguely into middle distance like he’s having an existential crisis