Jennifer Howard

Writer, editor, journalist.

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Jen Howard -3749Jennifer Howard’s reported features, essays, and reviews have been published in The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Slate, McSweeney’s, the NEH’s Humanities magazine, The Boston Review, and Bookforum, among other publications. Her fiction has appeared in The Collagist, VQR, Idle Ink, DC Noir (Akashic Books), Amazing Graces (Paycock Press), and elsewhere. Howard is a professional member of PEN American Center and the National Book Critics Circle, and has been a VCCA Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Howard has been reading, writing, and telling stories as long as she can remember. She was a longtime contributing editor at The Washington Post, and has been on the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books and The Wilson Quarterly. As a senior reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education, she covered the humanities, publishing, libraries and archives, and technology, subjects she still writes about whenever she can. A lifelong nature lover, she has also been press director for a nonprofit environmental group.

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Howard lives there now in a book-filled house (so many books, so little time) on Capitol Hill with her husband, the writer Mark Trainer, their two teens, two cats, and two dogs. Follow her on Twitter (@JenHoward), find her on Facebook, or say hi on Instagram.

Current projects: Howard is currently editing a book of interviews with American historians, and is at work on a personal and cultural history of clutter–a lifelong obsession. Just don’t ask her to KonMari your house.

Writing/editing services: Need an ace writer, editor, or creative consultant for a project? Please get in touch with Jennifer Howard LLC via the contact form or email me at jh@jenniferhoward.com.

Announcements

We live in the age of peak newsletters. So many good ones to choose from–but if indie publishing intrigues you, check out my dear friend Anne Trubek‘s weekly newsletter “Notes From a Small Press.” Anne’s the founder of Belt Publishing, and in “Notes” she shares what really goes into making and marketing books. It’s fascinating and well worth your time.

Latest Work

  • “What We Lose by Reading 100,000 Words a Day”

  • “Nobody’s Girl”

  • “Copy Machines in Libraries Are Going the Way of the Dodo–Slowly”

  • “Content Providers?”

  • “What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like”

About Jen

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Writer, journalist, editor, gadabout. Book- and nature lover. Washingtonian. LLC. Read more »

Latest Posts

  • Would You Let Marie Kondo Tidy Your Books?
  • Frankenreads on Camera
  • Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” Comes Alive at the Library of Congress
  • Deep Reading Is Good for You! (But It’s Harder Than It Used to Be)
  • Lullaby in Libraryland

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