By Jennifer Niesslein

I have a bit of personal bad news to share. I’ve been diagnosed with what’s classified as a head and neck cancer; I don’t want to go into it further publicly until I can process it better/write about it. It’s curable—(and let me emphasize this for my beloveds) CURABLE!—but the treatment (radiation and chemo) will be a rough ride. I thought this might a better year for me than last, what with Full Grown People coming back strong and my book out with some really nice reviews and a short essay I wrote that went maybe a teensy bit viral. Plus, I had a spell of unrelated breast cancer treatment at the end of 2021 and the beginning of this year, and I’d hoped that was the bad thing in my charmed life.

I’m telling you this to explain why FGP is going away—again—at least for the short term. Long-term, I don’t know. I don’t know how many times you can start and stop a publication. I don’t know what I’ll want my life to look like when I come out the other side of this. I’ll still be me of course, so it’ll be some combo of reading and writing and editing.

Until we meet again on the flip side, thanks for being such a stellar community!

xo, Jennifer

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