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Jen Soriano

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Born

Oak Lawn, IL

Website

https://www.jensoriano.net/

Twitter

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Genre

Nonfiction, Memoir, Science

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Jen Soriano was an avid reader before she became a writer. Raised on Ramona Quimby and Anne of Greene Gables, she was later introduced to Maxine Hong Kingston, James Baldwin, N. Scott Momaday, and James Joyce. Now Jen has a reading "to-do" list that is 34 pages long. Jen divides her time between social justice movement-building and writing essays and performance poetry at the intersections of race, gender, trauma, health, colonization, and power.

Melissa Febos has called Jen's work "luminous" and chose her essay "Unbroken Water" as winner of the 2019 Penelope C. Niven Prize. Aisha Sabatini-Sloan chose her essay "War-Fire" as winner of the 2019 Fugue Prose Prize, calling her work "vivid" and "cinematic". Jen is a 2019-2020 Hugo House Fellow a ...more

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	Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing 4.25 avg rating — 391 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice by Amanda Lee Solomon Amorao (Editor), Candice Custodio-Tan (Editor), Jen Soriano (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars