Writer, SF Bay Area

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Jo Unruh is a writer and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area.


“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all.” - Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart

If you need to reach me:

Email:

jo at unruh dot com

Book Recommendations:

The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Where Men Win Glory by John Krakauer

Whipping Girl by Julia Serrano

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn (surf noir at its finest)

The Plague by Albert Camus

Despair by Nabokov

something i tried out last year: “The Anchor Leg

A Substack about swimming: “The Anchor Leg.” Be one of the first to subscribe and let me know your thoughts :)

for my other literary stuff

for my shorter pubs, google me or email me. i no longer update this page with my recent publications (there’s not enough—been spending too much time building NiftyLit!)

memoir = under construction

autobiographical novel about my experiences at Saint-Cyr, the French Military Academy = postponed until further notice