More on: Jamie Quatro

Interview: Jamie Quatro, “The Body Believes” Quatro describes her need for sensory experience in worship. In what sensory experiences do you find connection to the divine, inside or outside church? Growing up in a family “looking for signs of the end,” Quatro says she was “primed for the visionary.” How has your upbringing influenced the…

Jamie Quatro brings to her fiction a poet’s awareness of language, a historian’s sense of tradition and folklore, and a theologian’s concern with eternal questions. She is the author of I Want to Show You More (a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and National…

At the 2024 Glen Workshop, Jamie Quatro was in conversation with Sophfronia Scott about the similarities and differences between writing fiction and nonfiction. Both writers are gifted across the two genres, and it was wonderful to hear the interplay between reality and imagination. Quatro shared that she is trained as a classical pianist, like her…

Without Sanctuary Aftermath and Visions in Contemporary American Fiction What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher R. Beha (Tin House Books, 2012) Enon by Paul Harding (Random House, 2013) I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro (Grove Press, 2013) THE SPONTANEOUS and unremembered wanderings of an amnesiac are often called a fugue state. But the word…