Jessica Keener
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HappeningsJune 2007 - My story, Woman With Birds In Her Chest, published in Elixir Magazine. January 21, 2007 - Here Here! Brookline Authors Speak. Presented my book, Time To Make the Donuts. Sponsored by The Trustees and The Friends of the Public Library of Brookline. January 7 - Boston Globe Magazine article on a Providence, RI loft. 2007 - Backstory link will be featured on Huffington Post--watch for this new addition. August 3, 2006 - Huffington Post blog. A fun post on two writers' book marketing strategies. July 22, 2006 - Panelist and moderator at Backspace Writing Conference in NYC. Algonquin Hotel. Spring 2006 - Boston Globe Magazine articles. March 2006 -- Guest author, Ninth annual Brookline Library Foundation Winter Gala. February 19, 2006 - Panelist. Topic: “Creating Paradise” a panel discussion moderated by Brookline painter Manika Srivastav, whose one-woman exhibition Creating Paradise is on view in the Brookline Arts Center gallery from February 1 to 29. Artist Clara Wainwright, documentary filmmaker Ann Carol Grossman, and author Jessica Keener will begin the discussion of the creative process and the roles that the artist’s vocation plays in their lives. January 2006 - O, The Oprah Magazine. Article about DearReader.com, an online book club with 300,000 members. |
Selected works, excerpts and previewsAgni Magazine
Fiction
Shoreline, a short story published in Northeast Corridor
Laura moves out of her house and into a summer cottage to reconsider the viability of her marriage. Others Less Fortunate, a novel
16-year-old Sarah, a gifted singer from an upper middle class Jewish family, comes of age following the tragic loss of her mother. Set in suburban Boston in the late sixties, illusions of stability collapse when Sarah's mother, a country club socialite and pill popper, dies in a fatal car crash on a winter day. Body Chemistry, a novel
College grad, Elizabeth Gold, learns she has contracted a fatal illness called Aplastic Anemia. The difficult news sends her on a search for a cure, but she quickly learns the options are high risk. In the process she faces ambiguities in family relationships, a failing romance, and an influx of caretakers, including an eccentric faith healer and an entrepreneurial apartment mate. A novel about the healing power of love. Memoir
The Quiet Revolution, published in CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, annual report '02
A personal story about aplastic anemia. Profiles
The Afterlife of Louis Brown, A Boston Globe Magazine cover story. June 2002
How the murder of a Boston teenager became a force for change. |
