About Me

jessica handler
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" (Public Affairs Books) is in bookstores now! 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 was awarded a merit scholarship to the Inaugural "Writers in Paradise" conference, an honorable mention for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and enjoyed a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and have been honored with 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, media history, and other courses of that stripe. 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.
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Make like a tree and leave. Make like a baby and head out...


I'm heading out again soon, for the St. Louis Jewish Book festival and then
the Queens University of Charlotte alumni program, and a reading in Charlotte to kick it off!

This means loading up the iPod with TED talks and new (to me) music. It means getting all my students' papers graded before I go. It means remembering that the gray tights look okay with the black and white dress, and not forgetting earplugs for hotel rooms.

Means calling my husband every twenty minutes and asking "whatcha doin?" Means him calling me every thirty minutes and asking "whatcha doin'?

And it means seeing old and new friends at author events. I hope you're one of them!

Check the calendar in the sidebar for event locations and dates!
Posted by jessica handler at 4:07 PM

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