Rosenberg explains that the idea for the story was sparked in part by his archival work, and the literature he found on Shepherd’s life, some of which he said “represented Jack in a way that we would maybe now understand gender non-conforming.” Instead, he wrote and read from a piece told from the perspective of a character modeled after his transphobic mother whose child was transgender, in which the mother is on Ox圜ontin and is convinced her child is holding her hostage and turning into a bird.Īfter reading the excerpts, Rosenberg opened the floor up for audience Q&A, where students and faculty in attendance asked questions about his writing process and stylistic choices, including his t inspiration behind Confessions of the Fox, which uses the framework of an archival manuscript to imagine the story of Jack Shepherd, a real life Victorian-Era English thief and folk hero, as transgender. However, he realized early in the writing process that he was not interested in writing a traditional memoir.
Rosenberg spent the first half of the evening reading excerpts from his new, unpublished work, which he explains started as a trans memoir.
Jordy Rosenberg, author of the acclaimed queer historical fiction novel Confessions of the Fox and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was the latest writer brought to campus through Denison’s Beck Visiting Writers Series.
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