About Me

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.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Temporarily Away




All this traveling has generated this photo from the Southern Kentucky Book Festival (thanks Jian Ping for the photo!), and this news clip from the Bowling Green Daily News this morning! (Thanks, Liz the reporter for stopping by to chat!)

Who knew Bowling Green was so pretty? Or that there are KFCs in Kentucky. (We checked, from the window of the very Secret-Service type SUV that whisked me and a few fellow authors from the Nashville Airport.)

And a rollicking night out with new and old friends, including the screamingly funny Cracker Queen , Lauretta Hannon, her pal Stephanie Snowe who has already managed to memorialize her salad, accompanied by her cousin Becky of the impeccable timing, and Amanda, (see prior post) and now gets another.

The other photo above is from the Nashville Airport - I didn't need resuscitation but if I did, I'd want it to come from Loretta Lynn. I found this very touching.

3 comments:

Stephanie Snowe said...

You are so beyond fab! :) My temporarily away sign is now residing in my living room and will very soon be my blog header.

Dinner was great! Hope we get to do it again.

Collin Kelley said...

Hey, "Temporarily Away" would make a good book title. That photo actually looks like a book jacket. Run with it, JH!

jessica handler said...

I'm really sorry I didn't take that actual sign with me. A 'must have' for book fairs.