Jessica Pavia

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Local YA author debuts second novel this month

Jan 16, 2025 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

click to enlarge [ { "name": "500x250 Ad", "insertPoint": "5", "component": "15667920", "parentWrapperClass": "", "requiredCountToDisplay": "1" } ] The 20-something young adult novelist’s second book, "The Wilde Trials," comes out January 21, and features much of what fans of her debut, "The Rosewood Hunt," expect from the Charlotte, NY native: plucky characters, found family, and a healthy amount of suspense. Reed’s thriller melds romance with mystery and sabotage as ex-lovers Chloe and...
ROCHESTER TEN | SEJAL SHAH

Aug 12, 2024 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

Age: 51Hometown: BrightonCurrent residence: HenriettaOccupation: Writer; writing teacherFrom the highest point on Cobbs Hill, it’s easy to pinpoint where the trees turn into blue skies. Sun bounces off the terracotta tile; the columns feel like Greece or Rome, or just that time in American history where architects became obsessed with the revival of both. Looking down past the undulating stone steps, it feels like the center of the world.
Depth of field

Jun 25, 2024 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

“It’s in my will,” he said of the tokens he’s been gathering since the 70s, little pieces of art. Beyond this lesser-known passion, Mark is a photographer and educator. When referring to Rochester as a ‘photo city,’ it’s impossible to do so without considering the education community that supports it. Watts got his first camera when he was 13, after his father won a contest for a 35 millimeter single-lens reflex.
To Cook is to Know is to Love Her

Apr 15, 2024 | archetypemag.com | Jessica Pavia

When Dad calls me, he is still getting over a cold. His voice is congested; he sounds young and vulnerable. But I know Dad, and I imagine his large frame sitting at his desk in his office, Mom’s reading glasses sitting precariously on the tip of his nose. While typically one to command any room he walks into, right now he’s probably wearing gray sweatpants and a tattered cotton shirt.
Obscure simplicity

Apr 5, 2024 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

“This uses the same technology as the camera obscura, but would have probably been used in architecture,” he said. “The person pulls up a chair and is able to transcribe by the projection.”The camera obscura Spader referred to is one of the earliest forms of light capture, possibly used by Aristotle and written about in a 1545 book on astronomy for its use in eclipse studies.
Growing a community

Mar 27, 2024 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

"It gives me an idea of what’s in bloom,” says Murphy. Today, he’s wearing a subdued Hawaiian shirt, but just the other day at the Genesee Region Orchid Society (GROS) meeting — where attendees sat four rows deep and planned their upcoming show — he had on something much more ostentatious, a blue and orange thing that proved he just got back from the Big Island.
Make to last

Feb 8, 2024 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

click to enlarge A thin piece of white fabric with red lettering welcomes customers in from the winter air. Towering storefront windows, dressed in a rich black paint, are almost golden this late at night. Inside, green leaves push themselves against the window, where hand-stitched banners and embroidered t-shirts stand emblematic.
Pull up a chair

Dec 21, 2023 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

Piccarreto, a Greece native, moves quickly but steadily in her commercial kitchen, eyes flitting back and forth between a black binder of laminated recipes and the vibrant beet hummus she’s building. The silver nail polish on her fingers flashes with each turn of the knife. Her energy is fluid, meticulous. It’s easy to see Piccarreto grew up intuitively cooking those ‘grab whatever you can from the pantry and throw them into plastic Tupperware’ type recipes. “They were never good,” she said.
Twisting My Life Into a Story Sacrificed My Ability to Live It

Nov 30, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Jessica Pavia

Craft Walking away from the perfect ending gives me the freedom to write something real Our street is the kind resplendent with trees that escort your car along its morning commute, their eager branches bending over the road. Old Victorian mansions are chopped into infinitesimal apartments very much like our own—a big red brick thing that was once a nursing home, though the only suggestions of its past are showers that slip right into the floor and the eerie shrouded feeling that comes with...
Curiously hip

Nov 27, 2023 | roccitymag.com | Jessica Pavia

click to enlarge As an overcast haze settles above a 200-acre farm in the hills of Genesee County, it’s surprisingly quiet, even among so many cows. They’re too busy grazing, maybe. Tucking their soft noses into the ground, their polled heads collecting burs from surrounding wildflowers. A light rain begins to whisper down.