Jamie McGhee (*1994, USA) is a novelist who aspires to build, through language, interactive spaces of resistance and experimentation. Her work challenges linguistic prescriptivism by exploring how pidginization and creolization occur when multiple communities collide. She’s currently tracing the formation of ethnolects within cities. Jamie’s books include “You Mean It Or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge” and the graphic novel “Not Light, But Fire”.

In Schöppingen, Jamie worked on a novel examining how language distorts at the intersection of militarized masculinity and ethnonationalism. The book documents how linguistic prescriptivism sacrifices minority cultures in favor of a mechanical whole, and how language policies operate as tools of warfare at the state, communal and individual level. It is set in postwar Berlin.