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.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I see the future...


I see several - no, it's hazy - no, it's coming clear... it's four (!) opportunities to come say 'hi' and one (!) opportunity to take a writing workshop with me! (Okay, the workshop is one of those four. Signs point to yes that I never claimed math as a strong suit.)

Yep, I'll be at the Suwanee Festival of Books next Sunday, August 29th, for two appearances ( a reading at noon, and a panel about the craft of memoir with the fabulous Kimberley Kennedy and Ad Hudler at 3) and at the Decatur Book Festival the following weekend, September 3 and 4th. The workshop's September 3, and there's a panel with oh so many Atlanta mover and shaker writers AND a bookstore owner on Saturday at 11:15. Yep, Laurel Snyder , Collin Kelley , Karen Head , and Jef Blocker from Bound to Be Read Books . (Kona the PR cat approved it.)

Want to know about social networking and writing? See you on the 4th! Will you be there? Yes, definitely!

Here's Suwanee Festival of Books , and here's Decatur Book Festival . The workshop registration is at the bottom of the DBF homepage.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tell us the story of the eight ball.

jessicahandler said...

Okay, so this bunch of high school girlfriends goes into a store looking for, as I recall, holiday gifts, and one of them (that one, with the brown hair and the chipped front teeth) asks this salesman...