Jeanne Ott

Jeanne Ott, family photograph

Jeanne Ott writes about the price of a certainty.

Her books begin with something that works: a court, a rite, a rule the whole world leans on. Then they ask what it costs the person who administers it, and what is left standing on the day the rule turns out to be a lie.

She writes slowly.

Three Confessions is her first series. A Light Left Burning is the first book.

Photographer unknown. From the author's family papers.

The series

Three Confessions →