The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Jasmine Ruff, MFA. Jasmine’s graduate thesis is a novel entitled Lorelei.
Jasmine Ruff is a queer writer who hails from the Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks First Nation. She came to the program after teaching English in South Korea for several years. During her MFA, she became the poetry editor at PRISM international and discovered a deep love of hybrid forms. She publishes her writing under the pseudonym “Clara Otto”. You can find her work in CRAFT Literary, The Ex-Puritan, just femme and dandy and elsewhere. Currently, Jasmine is working on a book of poetry and auto-theory about the colour pink, Legally Blonde, and the complicated legacies of Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.
Lorelei is a new weird novel that asks how far a myth can bend before it breaks. The protagonist, Drew, returns to her hometown following the disappearance of her teenage cousin. Throughout the novel, Drew uncovers the history between her family and the town. By combining elements of horror and magic, Lorelei explores surveillance, perseverance, and relationships between women.
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