Jennifer Croft In Conversation With Courtney Maum

The Mount presents memoirist Jennifer Croft in Conversation with novelist Courtney Maum in a new series, Beyond the Writing of Fiction.

In November, we celebrate National Book Award Week with Jennifer Croft, winner of the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the author of Serpientes y escaleras and Notes on Postcards and the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman form Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.

As an author of multiple books in different genres, the writer and book coach Courtney Maum willhost guests like Jennifer from across the literary stratosphere on The Mount’s new monthly “Beyond the Writing of Fiction” craft series, celebrating Edith Wharton’s affection for various forms of writing while focusing on the elusive but essential tool of craft.

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre (a GOOP book club pick and one of Glamour Magazine’s top books of the decade), I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and Touch (a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Best Book of the Year selection), and the forthcoming memoir The Year of the Horses.

A nominee for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, Courtney’s writing has been widely published in such outlets as the New York Times, and O, the Oprah Magazine, and she privately coaches writers on how to preserve the mystery and joy of the creative process in a culture that wants artists to become brands.