Award Winning Author Talks Bisexuality, Journalism, Gender & Her Experience of Being Kidnapped!

I am Annie McKinnon, authenticity coach, therapist, speaker, writer and podcaster.  If you would like to find out more about me, please visit my website www.coachingcart.com.  If you would like to get in touch, you can reach me at [e-mail] 

Get in touch with Jennifer:

Twitter: @jfsteil 

Instagram: @jenniferfsteil 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferfsteil 

Website: jenifersteil.net 

Read books by Jennifer:

Exile Music, explores an overlooked slice of World War II history, following Jewish musicians who flee Vienna in 1939 to seek refuge in the Bolivian Andes.  It won Grand Prize in the Eyelands 2020 Book Awards, the Multicultural and Historical novel International Book Awards; and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award, the Bisexual Book Award; and the Annie Award.  The Jerusalem Post called it "one of the best novels I have read in a long time." and the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronical wrote, "In a sea of Holocaust Literature, 'Exile Music ' stands out as wholly original and engaging."  

The Ambassador's Wife was inspired by her own kidnapping experience in Yemen.  It won the 2014 William-Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Best Novel Award, the 2016 Phillip McMath Post Publication Book Award, and was a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award and the Lascaux Novel Award.  

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, a memoir about her tenure as editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Sana'a, Yemen

All of Jennifer's work concerns itself with people who live far from home, either by choice or necessity, as well as with identity, sexuality, how artistic practices help us navigate grief and difficulty, and freedom of expression.

Books recommended by Jennifer during the Episode:

Elaine Castillo, America is not the heart 

Jody Rosenberg, confessions of the fox