We’ve got one of Boston’s best literary citizens with us, Jessica Kent. She’s the founder of Literary Boston, a website that covers the local literary community, marketing advice for authors, and a chance to take your own literary history tour. Today, she’ll be sharing with us a list of ways for you to connect to your literary community and be a stronger literary citizen. We’ll also talk her efforts to put literary Boston on the map, as well as how she started her work with Literary Boston in the first place.

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Jessica A. Kent is a freelance marketing writer by day and creative writer by night. She’s the founder of Literary Boston, a website that covers the local literary community. Other past literary roles include library assistant, bookseller, and book festival director. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson and a Master’s in Literature from Harvard, where her thesis on Moby-Dick and Calvinism won the Director’s Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in the North American Review, the Emerson Review, and others, and has received the Leah Lovenheim Award for Short Fiction. She recently graduated from GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, where she’s working on a novel about paramedics in 1970s Boston.

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