Porter Square Books: Jean Duffy with Rebecca Ntsanwisi and E.B. Bartels
Porter Square Books and GrubStreet are delighted to present the latest installment of the Grubbie Debut series, featuring Jean Duffy, author of Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World! Rebecca Ntsanwisi and E. B. Bartels will join the author in conversation.
Jean Duffy is a nonfiction writer with published essays in the Boston Globe, Concord Monitor, Lexington Minuteman, Packington Review, Somerville Journal, Stamford Advocate, and WBUR Cognoscenti. Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World is her first book. Jean can be found on the soccer field in Lexington, Massachusetts where her team, the Lexpressas, have been playing for some twenty years. When she’s not pounding her fingers on the keyboard or flubbing a shot on goal, she might be consulting with nonprofits, helping people downsize, or doing crossword puzzles with her husband at their home in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Rebecca Ntsanwisi, also known as “Mama Beka,” was born in Tzaneen in the province of Limpopo, South Africa. She has devoted her life to helping people in her community address health, education, housing, and other challenges. Formerly a radio talk show host, she connected people with needed resources. Beka started the soccer grannies’ team, Vakhegula Vakhegula, to improve the health and wellness of older women when she was undergoing treatment for colon cancer. She has received countless awards for her community activism including the Order of the Baobab award presented by the President of South Africa.
E.B. Bartels is a nonfiction writer, a former Newtonville Books bookseller, and a GrubStreet instructor, with an MFA from Columbia. Her work has appeared in Salon, Slate, WBUR, Literary Hub, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and The Millions, among others. She is the author of Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, a narrative nonfiction book about loving and losing animals, and she also edits the interview series Non-Fiction about Non-Humans on the literary site Fiction Advocate. E.B. lives outside Boston with her husband, Richie, and their dog, two tortoises, a small flock of pigeons, and a dozen fish.
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Porter Square Books: Jean Duffy with Rebecca Ntsanwisi and E.B. Bartels
Porter Square Books and GrubStreet are delighted to present the latest installment of the Grubbie Debut series, featuring Jean Duffy, author of Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World! Rebecca Ntsanwisi and E. B. Bartels will join the author in conversation.
Jean Duffy is a nonfiction writer with published essays in the Boston Globe, Concord Monitor, Lexington Minuteman, Packington Review, Somerville Journal, Stamford Advocate, and WBUR Cognoscenti. Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World is her first book. Jean can be found on the soccer field in Lexington, Massachusetts where her team, the Lexpressas, have been playing for some twenty years. When she’s not pounding her fingers on the keyboard or flubbing a shot on goal, she might be consulting with nonprofits, helping people downsize, or doing crossword puzzles with her husband at their home in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Rebecca Ntsanwisi, also known as “Mama Beka,” was born in Tzaneen in the province of Limpopo, South Africa. She has devoted her life to helping people in her community address health, education, housing, and other challenges. Formerly a radio talk show host, she connected people with needed resources. Beka started the soccer grannies’ team, Vakhegula Vakhegula, to improve the health and wellness of older women when she was undergoing treatment for colon cancer. She has received countless awards for her community activism including the Order of the Baobab award presented by the President of South Africa.
E.B. Bartels is a nonfiction writer, a former Newtonville Books bookseller, and a GrubStreet instructor, with an MFA from Columbia. Her work has appeared in Salon, Slate, WBUR, Literary Hub, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and The Millions, among others. She is the author of Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, a narrative nonfiction book about loving and losing animals, and she also edits the interview series Non-Fiction about Non-Humans on the literary site Fiction Advocate. E.B. lives outside Boston with her husband, Richie, and their dog, two tortoises, a small flock of pigeons, and a dozen fish.
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