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CJ Hauser

Biography

CJ Hauser

CJ Hauser teaches creative writing at Colgate University. They are the author of two novels, FAMILY OF ORIGIN and THE FROM-AWAYS. In 2019 they published “The Crane Wife” in The Paris Review, which reached more than a million readers all over the world. THE CRANE WIFE is their first work of nonfiction.

CJ Hauser

Books by CJ Hauser

by CJ Hauser - Essays, Memoir, Nonfiction

Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. Hauser releases themself from traditional narratives of happiness and goes looking for ways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way. They kiss Internet strangers and officiate at a wedding. They reread REBECCA in the house their boyfriend once shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They think about Florence Nightingale at a robot convention and the difference between those stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry.