Jessica Brilliant Keener
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My blogs
- Writers in the House
- Confessions of a Hermit Crab
- #AuthorsAgainstB...
- Confessions of A Hermit Crab
- BOOK PREGNANT
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Writer, editor |
| Location | Boston, MA, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a seeker, somewhat restless, with a strong need to define what's home. My rooms are a collection of area rugs on hardwood floors, paintings by Hungarian artist, Szotyory Laszlo, Elissa Yanover, my dad, and books and books, coffee cups on windowsills, old furniture from parents and grandparents, garage finds and a few new items. Also on my bookshelf: Women in Bed, a collection of nine stories, and my debut novel, Night Swim,which landed in the top ten on Amazon's and Barnes and Noble's paid bestseller lists, and was published in Germany as Schwimmen in der Nacht. My second novel, Strangers In Budapest, published by Algonquin Books was a 2017 and 2018 Indie Pick (Hardcover and paperback). Visit my website: www.jessicakeener.com |
| Interests | I've been writing for magazines for more than a dozen years, frequently about houses for The Boston Globe, New England Homes, Coastal Living, Design New England. I write fiction, read fiction for Agni Magazine, and recently joined the writing staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital to help raise funds that support amazing initiatives happening in healthcare locally, nationally and internationally. |
| Favorite Music | All kinds- Led Zepplin, Beatles, Santana, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Bjork, Chopin, BB King, Sarah Vaughan, Beethoven, Madonna, Les Claypool, Adrian Belew's Power Trio, Rolling Stones, Steve Miller Band, The Doors, White Stripes, Chaka Khan, Neil Young, Britney Spears, Christine Aguilerra, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Stravinsky, The Presidents of the United States, Bob Marley, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks. |
| Favorite Books | Too many to list. But for starters, books by authors: Jane Austen., Tolstoy, Alice Munroe, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Marilynne Robinson, Clarice Lispector, Michado D'Assis, Richard Ford, Patry Francis, Shakespeare, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, Paul Harding, Ha Jin, Cold Mountain, Letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary Oliver, Susan Henderson, Caroline Leavitt, Jon Clinch, Jennifer Haigh, Jayne Anne Philips, Mary Morris, Daphne Kalotay, and hundreds more. |
What's your idea of home?