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Jennifer Harris
Since 1994, Jennifer Harris’s poetry has appeared in
numerous national literary magazines including multiple publications in
the New York
Quarterly, Fish Stories, Art Times, HLLQ, and the anthology “Power
Lines” (Tia Chucha Press). PINK is her first novel. Jennifer received
her MFA from The
School of The Art Institute of
Chicago
and her BA from The University of Arizona.
Jennifer spent a decade as an active literary organizer in
Chicago,
both as the director of a poetry series at
The Art Institute of Chicago and
as the founder of a small literary magazine, which she ran for three
years. She also founded and directed a nonprofit that hosted writing
workshops for at-risk teens in hospitals and shelters throughout
Chicago.
For the past nine years, she has also spent most of her spare time
raising money for food and medical supplies for the Drepung Gomang
Monastery, located in south
India.
She was recently invited to join the Board of Trustees of the
Chicago Poetry Center.
She is a fulltime partner, mother, fundraiser, and writer.
Interviews
Coming in 2008...
Pink (April 2008)
Who is the woman behind the little pink book?
"When I first get the acceptance letter from the publisher about the
book I will write, I will walk inside my apartment and call my parents,
who will be as dumbstruck as me...My parents won't say anything at all.
So I will hang up the phone, turn off the ringer, and cry. I mean
pour-my-eyes-out cry...I will suddenly be terrified. I will feel the
blood rush in my veins, the way I do during a horror show, which is
precisely why I won't go see horror shows. I will think that I made a
terrible mistake."
Join this irrepressible heroine as she frolics,
frets, and navigates through the “what if’s” of her life: all the
unexpected turns of fortune, fame, and karma. Real or imagined, she is
the literary Walter Mitty of the lesbian world. Love, fame, and fortune
all line up to do cartwheels in this rollicking satire. Laugh along
with this everywoman and discover that her life may not be so different
from your own. Pink reveals the truths of the lives we all want
and deserve to live. Reprint.
A Victory Editions novel
Advance
review
“Pink
is an incredibly well-crafted, inventive novel about what it means to
dream so big that the dream itself becomes reality. … But best of all,
the narrator will fall in love with a woman who will help take away the
stress that's sure to come with the book's publication. The two will
have a complicated history; the girl once wrote a bad review of the
narrator's work when she was in college. Up until that point, the
narrator referred to her as "evil review girl," but now the two will
reunite under completely different circumstances.” –
AfterEllen.com
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