Jennifer Gilmore

thumb|Jennifer Gilmore Jennifer Gilmore (born 1970) is a Swiss-born, American author of several highly acclaimed novels and a teacher of creative writing and literature. She received a 2023 Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing and a 2024 fellowship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Quotes It's actually quite frightening to be an author and know the business side of publishing. I imagine it's easier to be in Iowa and not know what's going on with your book. If the industry had stayed the same, I might still feel in control of the publishing process, but sales reps' jobs have changed, marketing jobs have changed, publicity jobs have changed. as quoted by Craig Morgan Teicher in: Jennifer Gilmore: A PW Profile publishersweekly.com March 8, 2010 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/42340-jennifer-gilmore-a-pw-profile.html ... when I just started this book I thought: Roth’s Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy pretty much has it down on what the worse thing a Jewish boy can do but what is the worst thing a Jewish girl can do? Well: it is most likely throwing up her mother’s cooking. Food is identity, it’s love, it’s politics, it’s family. To reject that, and in such a self-destructive manner, is something I wanted to investigate. It also implicitly brings up the notion of privilege, which is also a stereotype many young Jewish women are saddled with. as quoted by Yona Zeldis McDonough in: Jennifer Gilmore on "Something Red" May 16, 2011 Lilith Magazine https://lilith.org/2011/05/jennifer-gilmore-on-something-red/ My husband and I were on this protracted and tragic adoption journey. It was really hard and there were a lot of things that went wrong, so I decided while this is happening I'd write a book about it to make it more interesting as opposed to just tragic. It's definitely based on our experience, but not exactly our experience.You know, I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers [laughs]. I think I learned some things about it, how to be patient, a little bit, and I'm so hard on that narrator, that I got to see the worst of how I felt. My husband said this to me actually—he said I was taking this horrible thing that we were going through and turning it into something positive. I felt productive in that way. as quoted by Kayla Tanenbaum in: Author Jennifer Gilmore on Motherhood, Stroller Envy, and Loving Pets as Children in The Mothers April 11, 2013 glamour.com https://www.glamour.com/story/author-jennifer-gilmore-on-mot External links https://www.jennifergilmore.net Jennifer Gilmore website Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Jews from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1970s