Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2012 Presenters

Jessica Keener

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Jessica Keener is a fiction editor at Agni magazine and feature writer for the Boston Globe Magazine. Her work has also been been featured in O, Coastal Living, and Poets and Writers. Her short fiction has earned her a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Fiction and a listing in The Pushcart Prize under "100 Outstanding Writers." Her first novel, Night Swim, has prompted much praise, including from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, who called it "gripping" and wrote that it "announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice."

Links:

A Review of Night Swim

An Interview with Tottenville Review

An Audio Interview on Other People with Brad Listi



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