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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 children's librarian in NYC, and teaches graduate-level children’s literature online next generation of librarians. Photo credit: Doug Weiner.


School Librarian Memoirs May Just Be the Next Big Thing

Jess DeCourcy Hinds on Book Bans Across the Nation, Educators' Fights Against Threats, and the Future of Library Access
August 11, 2023  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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What Banned Books Can Teach Us: Building an LGBTQ Picture Book Library for Pride 

Jess deCourcy Hinds on Finding Stories For Her Queer Family
June 1, 2023  By Jess deCourcy Hinds
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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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