Join us on Thursday, February 27th at 6:00 pm where award-winning author and editor Jennifer N. Baker will be reading excerpts from her published work and discussing her extensive experience in the world of publishing at the UConn Barnes & Noble in Storrs Center.
This event is part of the Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write series and the Visiting Authors events created the UConn Creative Writing program.
Jennifer N. Baker is a long-time publishing professional, creator and host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay “What We Aren’t (or the Ongoing Divide)” was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. She is also the editor of the BIPoC short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018). Her fiction, nonfiction, interviews and criticism have appeared in various print and online publications.
Currently, Baker works at Penguin Random House as a managing editor and resides in the New York City area.
The reading, co-sponsored by the UConn Creative Writing Program and the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. The UConn Bookstore is located at One Royce Circle, 101 Storrs Center, and can be contacted at 860-486-8525.
For more information, contact: Nicole Catarino at nicole.catarino@uconn.edu