Jennie Nash
http://www.jennienash.com
Jennie Nash first began writing essays as a student at
Wellesley College, where she wrote the column "On and Off
Campus" for the alumnae magazine. As she worked toward a
degree in English, she developed a series of essays about
her friendship with her roommate, which she later turned
into an honors thesis entitled Two Women in Particular. Ms.
Nash graduated cum laude from Wellesley in 1986.
After graduation, Ms. Nash moved to New York City, where she
worked as an editorial assistant at Ballantine Books and an
assistant editor at New York Woman magazine. She
began her freelance writing career while working on these
editorial staffs. Her personal essays and articles have
appeared in dozens of national magazines, including The
New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Real
Simple, Self, Shape, Child,
Glamour, Mademoiselle, GQ, US,
Home, Working Woman, New York Woman,
and Readers' Digest. In addition, her marketing and
advertising copy has been used on products by clients such
as Mattel, Fischer-Price, Knowledge Adventure, Ford Motor
Company and the Los Angeles ad agency, Roddan Paolucci Roddan.
In 1992, Ms. Nash's collection of essays, Altared States:
Surviving the Engagement, was published by Crown. It was
excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine.
Ms. Nash's second book, The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never
Stops Coming and Other Lessons I Learned From Breast Cancer
is the story of how the illness made her "a wise old woman
at the age of 36." The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops
Coming was a LifetimeTV Bookshelf Pick for October, 2001 and
was featured in prominent ads in six major Hearst women's
magazines. Ms. Nash has appeared on several major talk
shows, including the Rosie O'Donnell Show. She has taught
WebMD classes on illness and storytelling, and is a popular
keynote speaker at breast cancer events throughout the country.
Ford Motor Company purchased 110,000 copies of The
Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming to use as
giveaways in their national education outreach campaign, for
which Ms. Nash waived her royalties. Ford also toured her to
major cities to lecture and sign books during Breast Cancer
Awareness Month in 2002, and hired her to write a short work
of fiction, entitled My Grandma's Bandana, which was given
away at Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure events in 2003 and
2004.
Ms. Nash's third book, Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of
Desperation and Delight was published in August, 2003. It
was a BookSense76 pick for September/October, and was
awarded a Gold Medal from the National Association of
Parenting Publications.
Ms. Nash is an instructor at the UCLA Extension Writer's
Program.
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Books
The Only True Genius in the Family
February 3, 2009
From the author of The Last Beach Bungalow: a
portrait of a family—in all its heartbreaking
complexity.
Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape
photographer father, and is the mother of Read more...
The Last Beach Bungalow
February 5, 2008
A poignant novel about a woman who survives breast
cancer, only to struggle with what comes next: living.
After five cancer-free years, April Newton should be
celebrating, but instead she's restless. She feels Read more...
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