About Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Carolyn Jess-Cooke is a poet and novelist from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests' worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development was laid on the wasteland of Midtown West l...
