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Join former Writing Salon teacher Jenny Pritchett, aka Jenny True, for a reading from her new book You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood, available for preorder now and out just in time for Mother's Day! Jenny will be joined by executive director Ben Jackson for a lively talk on Jenny's journey from Writing Salon teacher to mommy blogger to published author.
The book launch will take place over Zoom. To attend the reading, please purchase your seat by 4pm on April 16. We will email the Zoom link to everyone who has purchased a ticket.
All proceeds from this event will fund the Writing Salon's Access Program, which strives to enable a more dynamic classroom by diversifying the writers' voices within it.
Jenny Pritchett, aka Jenny True, is a Bay Area writer and nationally recognized columnist for Romper. Her debut collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press, 2008), won the Michael Rubin Book Award. She has published fiction in Boulevard, the Northwest Review, the Southwest Review, Salt Hill, and other journals and has written and reported for Guernica, Salon, and Bitch, among others. Her story “Thieves” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and an M.F.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University. As Jenny True, the voice of her blog and the “Dear Jenny” column, she has been recognized on the sidewalk by a mom driving by in a car, and a mom on a plane.