Jessica Handler’s novel The Magnetic Girl was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize. She’s the author of the memoir, Invisible Sisters, one of the “25 Books All Georgians Should Read,” the craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss, and the forthcoming novel, The World to See (Regal House, 2026). Her nonfiction has appeared on NPR, in Tin House, Drunken Boat, The Bitter Southerner, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Oldster, and elsewhere.