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Jess deCourcy Hinds

Jess deCourcy Hinds
Jess deCourcy Hinds is a fiction writer, Pushcart Prize Nominee and New York Times Modern Love columnist who has recently completed a novel. Sign up for her free quarterly newsletter: I’m an Open Book: On Love, Libraries and Life-Building. Hinds’ work has been featured on NPR and a wide variety of news outlets and literary journals, from Ms. to Newsweek to Insider to Quarterly West. She works as a high school librarian in NYC, and teaches graduate-level children’s literature online to the next generation of librarians. Photo credit: Doug Weiner.


In Honor of International Women’s Day: 8 Ways to Love Little Women

Jess deCourcy Hinds on a Lifetime of Reading the Girlhood Classic  
March 10, 2023  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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How to Love a Writer: On the Care and Feeding of a Creative Marriage

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders How Literary Couples Make It Work
February 14, 2023  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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How Can Literary Spaces Support Neurodivergent Readers and Writers?

Jess deCourcy Hinds on Creating Inclusive Places for Everyone
February 2, 2023  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

Jess deCourcy Hinds Wonders If We’re Ready for a Jólabókaflóðið of Our Own
December 23, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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It’s a Wonderful, Weird Life: Writers Recommend Their Favorite Holiday Movies

Yes, Gremlins is a Christmas Movie
December 19, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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Writers Wrestle with Twitter: Do I Stay or Go (and Where?)

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Literary Community’s Twitter Deathwatch
November 14, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library 

Jess deCourcy Hinds Describes an All Too Familiar Scene
October 26, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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75 Years of Goodnight Moon: Today’s Best Writers Reflect on a Children’s Classic

Jess de Courcy Hinds on Margaret Wise Brown’s Beloved Book
October 14, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Most Popular School Supply of All Time
September 19, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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Calculating Losses: How to Close a High School Library for Summer Vacation 

Jess deCourcy Hinds on Taking Stock of More Than Just Books
July 8, 2022  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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How to Reopen a High School Library 18 Months After a Pandemic Closure

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Joys and Aches of Re-Entry
November 9, 2021  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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Every Book Tour Should Include a Public School

On Making High Schools Into True Literary Spaces
September 4, 2018  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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