🍇 About

Welcome to Rotten Fruit Press, the creative corner of Jennifer Campo’s writing world.

I’m a long-time writer, beginner sharer, emerging from the fuckery of an atrocious lawsuit and finally stepping out of my writing closet.

Here, I publish under my name (👋 hi, I'm Jennifer), and Rotten Fruit Press is my thematic umbrella. It’s where my poetry, pop-culture fanfic, and Sicilian lore obsession ferment into something strange, soft, and saucy. Sorry, I had to do it.

My current project is called Strange Woman—part memoir, part user manual, part ancestral haunting—this project documents my journey after surviving sexual assault by a doctor…who is still practicing, by the way. It’s the guidebook I needed after I pressed charges, and it’s my love letter to survivors. Spoiler alert: it’s not you, babe.

While Sicilian folklore and pop culture fanfic might seem unrelated, they all thread into the fabric of Strange Woman’s narrative. I think in systems and see the world as a stage. I’m unraveling the stories we’ve been told, which are often stranger than fiction, and exploring the programming and conditioning that shape us. My work is about deconstructing these layers—art about art—and threading the lies out of our souls.

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Let’s make some toilet wine together. 🍇

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Legal Disclaimer:

The civil lawsuit in Fort Collins, Colorado, against Dr. Timothy Allen has concluded, and I am not bound by any non-disclosure agreements. I am legally permitted to state facts including: “Dr. Timothy Allen sexually assaulted me,” and “the 59-page police report includes statements from five other women with similar accounts.” Sure, you can have a copy of it.

All other statements on this platform reflect my personal experiences, creative interpretation, and emotional processing. These may include fictionalized or symbolic elements and should not be interpreted as factual beyond the public legal record. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This work should not be interpreted as factual reporting or legal testimony beyond the statements I am legally allowed to make.