Now available for preorder: My short story collection, Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself, won the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award and will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2026.

PRIASE

Now I’m Photogenic is a tremendous debut–funny, dark, weird, adventurous, brutally honest and also tender and compassionate. Each story pulses with a profound understanding of the human condition so the reader is constantly amazed. If you are a reader like me, who craves fiction that is wildly surprising, this collection is for you. Jill Rosenberg is a literary magician — bizarre situations feel plausible and ordinary predicaments seem otherworldly. Readers will savor access to a world where unforgettable characters balance on the precipice of either redemption or defeat. This is a writer not only to watch but to follow.

– Julia Fierro, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth

Stories as vivid and immediate as dreams, full of dream logic and dream panic. Everything is written on the body, an intimacy that gives way to horror or to dark comedy or both. A surprise on nearly every page. This collection is deft, moving and deeply strange. I loved it.

– Kevin Canty, author of The Underworld

These stories are filled with joy and transgression, something jittery and comic that delights precisely because it names the honest thrill of childish pleasure without diminishing the true risk. Fans of Miranda July and Kelly Link, lucky you to have a new writer to adore!

– Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once