FDU MFA Alum Jerisha Parker Gordon’s Essay Published At The New York Times

“What we said was ‘be nice.’ What she heard was ‘you don’t matter.'”
 
Jerisha Parker Gordon’s essay, “A Daughter Too Kind for Her Own Good,” was recently published by The New York Times.
 
Read more at The New York Times.
 
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Jerisha Parker Gordon is a graduate of FDU’s Creative Writing MFA program. She does many things but she enjoys most being a mother, writer, and adjunct instructor in the English department at Wilmington University.
 

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