Sun Hesper Jansen (they/she/ he) is a shapeshifter from Madison, Wisconsin, who works in the darker genres of fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism. Their collection of poetry and artwork, Fairy of Disenchantment, was published in 2023 by Indie Blu(e) Publishing, and they have appeared in several Indie Blu(e) anthologies as well as The Winged Moon Magazine and The Chamber Magazine. You can find them on Instagram @sunhesper and at Fairy of Disenchantment which is a blog on, and about, literary therapy for Multiple Sclerosis.
The poems in Fairy of Disenchantment represent Sun Hesper Jansen’s passage through the underworld that is life with Multiple Sclerosis. Because MS never resolves, the journey is circular, a process of constant adaptation and transcendence that draws on personal histories, science and mythology, nature and magic, and above all, imagination.
“Each poem and artwork in Sun Hesper Jansen’s erudite first book, Fairy of Disenchantment, is placed down like a tarot card. The readings, one moving smoothly into the next, tell the author something about herself but also about the rest of us. And you’ll wait eagerly, hungry for each new revelation.”
—Suzette Bishop, Jaguar’s Book of the Dead
“This book is a spell. In Fairy of Disenchantment Sun Hesper Jansen weaves her pen like a needle through essays, poetry and prose poems, to stitch together the open wounds of invisible illness, tristesse and being human.”
—Amy Torok, co-author of Missing Witches and New Moon Magic
”Sun Hesper Jansen’s speculative and compelling reflections on the journey and cycles within chronic illness are a masterful and luminous mix of mythology, witchcraft, nature, trauma, goddess magic, and the turning wheel of life and death, ‘from the crack of menarche to the crone.’”
—Beverley Butcher, Author of ‘Sisterhood of Broken Dolls’ included in the anthology Disturbing the Body, @boudiccapress, March 2021
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Publication Date: June 11, 2023
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-951724-21-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-951724-22-1
Indie Blu(e) Publishing 