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 23, 2009

To Do list


1. Finish freelance article.

2. Grade papers.

3. Keep rain boots by back door.

4. Write the first pass of the last scenes of the novel, which has an almost-name.

5. Control excitement over the Queens University of Charlotte MFA alumni weekend, coming up soon!
Posted by jessica handler at 5:02 PM

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