Jennesia Pedri is a contributing editor to Geist. she recently wrote and directed the short film The Alderson Murder, released in the fall of 2018. She lives in Coquitlam, B.C. Read her book reviews at geist.com.
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Jennesia Pedri
Then Came the Condos
Jennesia Pedri examines the literary legacy of Dollarton, once home to Earle Birney, Dorothy Livesay and Al Purdy, and the recently-evicted Carole Itter and Al Neil. Read more
Scumbags Behaving Badly
Jennesia Pedri reviews Gonzalo Riedel's wonderfully disastrous short story collection, Behaving This Way Is All I Have Left. Read more
Silver-Mine Gold
A review of Happy-Go-Lucky: Silver Islet Shenanigans, a creative non-fiction book by Bill MacDonald. Read more
A Second Piece of Pi
Jennesia Pedri answers: why would one want to reread a novel that devotes 211 of its 354 pages to the 227 days that followed a shipwreck? Read more
Dividing Lines
Jennesia Pedri reviews Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello di Cintio (Goose Lane). Read more
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