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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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Monday, October 26, 2009

Walking Dead


M. and I went to the Oakland Cemetery Halloween walking tour last night, and the lines were endless, which is great news for fundraising for Oakland, which has been in Atlanta since 1850 and is a beautiful, park-like garden cemetery (think Mt. Auburn in Cambridge, MA, if you've been there.)

For me, it's historic Atlanta.

So, in the chill, we toured and stopped/started among six (or was it seven?) stops, and watched an actor tell the story of the person they represented; a governor, a woman lost at sea off of Florida, the most beautiful girl in Atlanta, a judge from up on Screamer Mountain...

And Oakland is gorgeous, as always, lit by torches in the night.

And how does this connect with writing? Experience your world, do new things, and oh, yeah, this in particular is period research. That's all I'm sayin'. :)
Posted by jessica handler at 8:12 AM

1 comments:

Collin Kelley said...

I'm going tomorrow night with fingers crossed the rain holds off.

October 26, 2009 4:28 PM

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