Jamie Harrison

Biography

Jamie Harrison is the author of six novels, including The Widow Nash (Counterpoint, 2017), the Jules Clement mystery series, and The Center of Everything (Counterpoint, 2021), from which “Polly, Looking” was adapted. She is a Ucross Foundation fellow, a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, and the winner of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award. She has lived in Montana for more than thirty years.

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FICTION / Winter 2020

Polly, Looking

By Jamie Harrison ,  Illustration by Armando Veve

Polly’s problem after the accident, really one of her largest problems, was an inability to prune what she saw and what she thought, to stop her brain. She was both too easily distracted and too attentive. When she’d gotten out of the...

Illustration by Armando Veve