Jennifer Bakeris a publishing professional, creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing_podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. In 2017, she was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship & Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant (as well as their award for Artistic Excellence) for Nonfiction Literature. Jennifer is the editor of the short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (Atria Books, 2018). Her writing has appeared in Newtown Literary(for which her short story “The Pursuit of Happiness” was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize), Boston Literary Magazine,Eclectic Flash,The Offing,Poets & Writers, The Other Stories_podcast, Kweli Journal,and The Female Complaint_anthology from Shade Mountain Press. She has also contributed to Forbes.com, LitHub, the Billfold, School Library Journal, and Bustle_, among other online publications.
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