An Interview With Talented Author Susan Petersen Avitzour

How did you become involved with the subject or theme of your book? My eighteen-year-old daughter Timora died of leukemia in 2001. My book is a memoir of my journey with her while she was ill, then without her after she left this world. Why did you choose to write in your particular field or [...]

Interview with Jen Knox, Author of Musical Chairs

Jen Knox writes both fiction and creative nonfiction.  She never writes poetry, not on purpose (she asked me to include this detail), but she enjoys reading it. Jen is a graduate of Bennington‘s Writing Seminars and currently works as a Creative Writing professor at San Antonio College and Fiction Editor at Our Stories Literary Journal.  [...]

My Review of Musical Chairs by Jen Knox

Musical Chairs is a naked view into a young woman’s sometimes anguishing journey through life. Jen Knox tells her story with heartfelt honesty and gutsy determination. From page one the reader becomes immersed in the struggles of a young girl to become something better than herself. She attempts to climb new heights as she wanders [...]

Jen Knox: ATTMP Author of the Week

Jen Knox: ATTMP Author of the Week.

Jen Knox Blog Tour

Musical Chairs explores one family’s history of mental health diagnoses and searches to define the cusp between a ’90s working-class childhood and the trouble of adapting to a comfortable life in the suburbs. In order to understand her restlessness, Jennifer reflects on years of strip-dancing, alcoholism, and estrangement. Inspired by the least likely source, the family [...]