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, November 23, 2010

Gift List



Attention, authors. I'll bet your agent works hard for you. Your publicist? Yep. What bookstores have gone out of their way to hand-sell your books? How about your editor?

Wouldn't it be nice to remember them as you're making up that gift list?

PS This post was neither endorsed nor planted by my agent, publicist, editor, or favorite indie bookstores.

(Picasso's list via BBC.)
Posted by at 10:08 PM

1 comments:

Susan Woodring said...

Thanks for the reminder, Jessica.

Any suggestions? What to give?

November 27, 2010 6:11 AM

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