Jennifer Cognard-Black
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Jennifer Cognard-Black

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Jennifer Cognard-Black is an award-winning writer of short fiction, essays, and studies of women writers. A contributor to "Ms. Magazine," she is the author or co-editor of six books: an anthology of essays on women and their machines, "From Curlers to Chainsaws" (MSUP 2016); a collection of food writing, "Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal" (NYUP 2014); a writing textbook, "Advancing Rhetoric" (Kendall Hunt 2006); an anthology of letters by women writers, "Kindred Hands" (U of Iowa P 2006); a study of transatlantic Victorian women writers, "Narrative in the Professional Age" (Routledge 2004); and a forthcoming collection of essays on eating with both knowledge and intention, "Ethical Eating" (NYUP 2023). Jennifer has also produced two lecture series with The Great Courses--"Becoming a Great Essayist" (2016) and "Great American Short Stories" (2018)--as well as an Audible Original: "Books that Cook: Food and Fiction" (2021). Jennifer received two Fulbright Awards, both to the Netherlands and Slovenia, as well as two Maryland State Arts Council grants, and the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University, considered the American "Nobel prize" for teaching. Her short fiction, which she publishes under the penname J. Annie MacLeod, has been nominated for Pushcart prizes and has appeared in numerous journals, including "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction," "PoemMemoirStory," and most recently, "Story Magazine." A Professor of English, Jennifer teaches fiction writing, Victorian literature, women writers, and the literatures of food at St. Mary's College of Maryland, a public honors college. In addition to writing and teaching, she is ever perfecting recipes for her special topics classes "Books that Cook" and "Just Food." Visit her website: jennifercognard-black.com
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