Jennifer Cognard-Black
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Jennifer Cognard-Black

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Jennifer Cognard-Black is an award-winning writer of short fiction, essays, and studies of women writers. A contributor to "Ms. Magazine," she is the author or co-editor of six books: a collection of essays on ethical eating from a range of perspectives, "Good Eats" (NYUP 2024); an anthology of essays on women and their machines, "From Curlers to Chainsaws" (MSUP 2016); a collection of food writing, "Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal" (NYUP 2014); a writing textbook, "Advancing Rhetoric" (Kendall Hunt 2006); an anthology of letters by women writers, "Kindred Hands" (U of Iowa P 2006); & a study of transatlantic Victorian women writers, "Narrative in the Professional Age" (Routledge 2004). Jennifer has also produced two lecture series with The Great Courses--"Becoming a Great Essayist" (2016) and "Great American Short Stories" (2018)--as well two Audible Originals: "Books that Cook: Food and Fiction" (2021) & "Margaret Atwood: A Modern Mythmaker" (2025). Jennifer has received two Fulbright Awards and two Maryland State Arts Council grants; she was also awarded the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, considered the American "Nobel prize" for teaching. Her short fiction, which she publishes under the name J. Annie MacLeod, has been nominated for Pushcart prizes and has appeared in numerous journals, including "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction," "PoemMemoirStory," and "Story Magazine." A Professor of English, Jennifer teaches fiction writing, Victorian literature, women writers, and the literatures of food at St. Mary's College of Maryland, a public honors college.
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