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Erato: Georgia Tech's Art & Literary Journal holds the next event in its reading series, featuring authors Jessica Handler and Andy Frazee.
About Ms. Handler:
Jessica Handler’s first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2009) is one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Eight Great Southern Books in 2009” and Atlanta Magazine’s “Best Memoir of 2009,” as well one of the “Twenty-Five Books All Georgians Should Read.” Her non-fiction has appeared in Tin House, Brevity, More Magazine, Newsweek, and Ars Medica, and is forthcoming in R-KV-RY, The Writer, and Defunct Magazine. She is a 2010 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, 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. Her website is www.jessicahandler.com.
About Mr. Frazee:
Andy Frazee’s chapbook "That the World Shall Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood" was recently published by New American Press, and his poems have recently appeared, or soon will appear, in Eoagh, 1913, and Eleven Eleven. A native of Illinois, he holds a PhD in English from the University of Georgia, and currently holds a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgia Tech.