Jarek Steele

My essay, "Nesting," that was featured in the Colorado Review, will be included in The Best American Essays 2025 from Mariner Books! It comes out in October.

Obviously, buy the book at your favorite independent bookstore. Here's the info-

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

#bestamerican2025

Trans day of Visibility This is "Trans day of Visibility" by Jarek Steele on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

vimeo.com/1071160137?s...

4
Meanwhile, off campus... well, you know the rest of that sentiment, too.

And yet, I'm still irritated by the cigarette smell. I want to yell and lecture them about laughing at chronic feelings of suffocation and isolation.
It all feels like the same conversation.

3

the statement about ethics and confidentiality I'm making for my classes so that if they write about their family members' immigration statuses we won't be interrupted by, well, you know the rest of that sentence.

2

Also I'm toggling back and forth between imperitives to call Josh Hawley and ask him nicely not to be mean to transgender people and chronic feelings of suffocation and isolation. It all feels like the same conversation.

1

I'm sitting in a library listening to a group of nursing students loudly study for a test about COPD, and the smell of stale cigarettes wafting from them is overwhelming.