“When you think,” Caderousse said, letting his hand fall onto the paper, “that what you have here can kill a man more surely than if you were to hide in the woods to murder him! I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.”
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What is A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG FEM?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fem is the personal blog for professional writer Nico Bailey to post essays, reading lists, reviews, and career announcements. Topics include:
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Who is Nico Bailey?
Nico Bailey is a Pushcart Prize-nominated queer and trans literary-fiction writer from New Jersey with an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of New Hampshire as well as a B.A. in English and Political Science. She mainly writes about queer and trans women.
While writing and submitting fiction for publication, Nico also likes to write short essays ranging from analytic to personal, usually about the book she’s reading or a current event she has insight into, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fem is the perfect place for her to publish them and for you to see ’em!
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None of my work features text, art, or video generated by generative AI or Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E, Veo, LTXV, or Sora. This includes my blog posts, social media, and published work.
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Most, if not all, images used by me are sourced from Wikimedia Commons and other stock photo sites or created myself using raster graphics editors (e.g. Photoshop, GIMP, FireAlpaca).
