Jenara Nerenberg

Jenara Nerenberg is a publicity consultant for Milkweed Editions. A producer and literary agent, Jenara is also the author of Divergent Mind, creator of The Neurodiversity Project & The Interracial Project, and founder of Divergent Literary, a full-service literary agency representing neurodivergent authors and allies. Raised in San Francisco, she is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard and spent six years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, reporting for CNN, Fast Company and elsewhere. Her bestselling author interview series occur live in person, sometimes on Instagram, and appear in print at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good and the Garrison Institute, featuring Roxane Gay, Pico Iyer, Omid Safi, Darnell Moore, Gabor Mate, Steve Silberman, Roshi Joan Halifax, Sundance’s Kamal Sinclair, angel Kyodo williams, Netflix’s Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Krista Tippett and others. Jenara is proudly neurodivergent, collaborates widely, and sends out event announcements at Microphone in Her Throat. She is thrilled to be at Milkweed promoting its fantastic authors.

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Ready to Take Flight: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff — 08/02/2021

by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

When someone writes a book about anything the first thing they are often asked is: HOW?

How did you find the time, the topic, the means to get it out of your insides and into the outside world for all to see? When someone writes a book that takes as its subject matter their own personal lived experiences – those which might range from deeply unsettling – to upsetting – or even traumatising; perhaps the question most commonly asked is: WHY?

Why would you put yourself through it? Why would you unearth that pain? Why would…

Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Kerri nÍ Dochartaigh’s first book, Thin Places, was published in Spring 2022 in the US. It was an Indies Introduce selection for Winter/Spring 2022, an Indie Next selection for April 2022, and A Junior Library Guild selection for Spring 2022. Cacophony of Bone is her second book. She lives on the west coast of Ireland with her family.