Read all about it at the Decatur Book Festival's website!
We have some magnificent memoirists at the festival this year, including [... ]Jessica Handler, author of the breakout Invisible Sisters, her story of living on after the loss of both of her sisters to terminal illnesses.
I'll be speaking with the terrific Kaylie Jones, author of "Lies My Mother Never Told Me" on Saturday at 4:15 at the Decatur Conference Center (Holiday Inn) stage.
Come say hello!
About Me
- jessica handler
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" has been named one of "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read!" I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I have been honored with a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT., a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.
2 comments:
I'm just going to check in to the Holiday Inn on Saturday because everyone I want to hear is reading there. I'm reading there, too, but I've heard myself plenty. See you soon!
If it's the room I'm thinking of, I like that room. Heck, I like the whole festival. I'll see you there, and am planning to come to your reading. Conquering Venus is the top of my stack for reading at the beach (HOORAY) in a few weeks! That way, I get to devour it rather than pick at it during a work week.
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