Both a teacher of writing and a lifetime learner, Jeanne is the founder of the Westerly Writers Workshop, which offers writing workshops in memoir and fiction at the Westerly YMCA. She is also a board member of the Boston Book Festival and GrubStreet, one of the country’s pre-eminent creative writing centers. Jeanne’s essay “The Life-Changing Art of Letting Go” was published in Zibby Owen’s anthology Moms Don’t Have Time To. Other essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Indagare, The Boston Book Blog, diyMFA, Grown and Flown, The Jewish Book Council, Squash Magazine, Adopting.com, and many others. She also reviews contemporary fiction for the New York Journal of Books. You can catch up on her latest reviews on her blog.

At work on her next novel, Jeanne was named a BookEnds Fellow in April 2021. BookEnds is an intensive year-long program in which her manuscript is workshopped and revisioned, culminating in the July 2022 Southampton Writers Conference. 

You can learn more about Jeanne and her work at her website.

Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her most recent book, The Nine (She Writes Press 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense, and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards, among others. Her debut novel, Eden (She Writes Press 2017), won the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction.

Both a teacher of writing and a lifetime learner, Jeanne is the founder of the Westerly Writers Workshop, which offers writing workshops in memoir and fiction at the Westerly YMCA. She is also a board member of the Boston Book Festival and GrubStreet, one of the country’s pre-eminent creative writing centers. Jeanne’s essay “The Life-Changing Art of Letting Go” was published in Zibby Owen’s anthology Moms Don’t Have Time To. Other essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Indagare, The Boston Book Blog, diyMFA, Grown and Flown, The Jewish Book Council, Squash Magazine, Adopting.com, and many others. She also reviews contemporary fiction for the New York Journal of Books. You can catch up on her latest reviews on her blog.

At work on her next novel, Jeanne was named a BookEnds Fellow in April 2021. BookEnds is an intensive year-long program in which her manuscript is workshopped and revisioned, culminating in the July 2022 Southampton Writers Conference. 

You can learn more about Jeanne and her work at her website.