Jessica Handler’s first book, Invisible Sisters: A Memoir (Public Affairs, 2009) has been honored by the Georgia Center for the Book as one of “Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read,” is one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Eight Great Southern Books in 2009,” and Atlanta Magazine’s “Best Memoir of 2009.” Her nonfiction has appeared in Tin House, Brevity.com, More Magazine, Southern Arts Journal, and Ars Medica. She received the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship for the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, and a special mention for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. Handler teaches creative writing in Atlanta, Georgia. What’s defunct in her life? “Working for The Man every night and day.”
