Jump Doggy, Jen Ives

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Jump Doggy
Paperback – January 21, 2026
by Jen Ives

Jump Doggy is a biting, darkly funny debut collection of short stories that skewers identity, power, and survival in contemporary Britain through a distinctly trans lens. Across fourteen sharply observed tales, Jen Ives blends satire, grief, absurdity, and anger into stories that are as unsettling as they are laugh-out-loud funny.

An appointment at the Gender Clinic goes catastrophically wrong.
A cancelled second-wave feminist spirals into an identity crisis.
A trans woman’s funeral is derailed in ways both tragic and grotesque.

Inspired by the relentless social pressures of life as a trans person in the United Kingdom, these stories confront gender identity, bodily autonomy, social politics, death, and the exhausting performance demanded by institutions that claim authority over trans lives. Ives writes with a sharp eye for hypocrisy and a refusal to soften the emotional blows.

While many of the stories tackle serious and painful themes, Jump Doggy never loses its sense of mischief. The collection embraces the absurd, including a memorable detour involving a robot chimp, reminding readers that humor can be both a survival strategy and a weapon.

Bold, confrontational, and deeply human, Jump Doggy announces Jen Ives as a distinctive new voice in queer fiction. This is a collection for readers who appreciate literary risk, dark humor, and stories that refuse to ask politely for acceptance.