KJ Hannah Greenberg

CONGRATULATIONS!

KJ Hannah Greenberg

has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry

Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting

In forty-one super-energized essays, Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting larks at family life. Both sweet and sour, this collection of essays zings across many aspects of parenting, including: exhaustion, pets, sibling rivalry, access to convergent media and integrating family with fortune. Throughout this book’s pages, the lighter side of life is held up for examination. No situation is too common to escape Oblivious’ lens and no episode is too silly to fail to merit inclusion in this book. To feel cozy about, as well as to chuckle at, your own experiences of raising children, read Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting.

Release date: Spring 2010

Price: $18 USD (excluding taxes)

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Blog Tour

Poetica Magazine: Reading and Writing as a Means to Publishing ‘rithmatic
Significance and Inspiration: Plodding versus Widget Writing: Electing not to Write in Response to Changes in Publishing

Samples from Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting

Excerpt from “Fiction and Phobias”
Excerpt from “Negotiating with a Kitten”
Excerpt from “Mission Almost Possible”
Complete “Baseball Caps, Carbohydrates and Service Centers” as seen in Mused
Complete “Parenting Teens After the Advent of the Internet” as seen in Women Writers

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Other Samples of KJ Hannah Greenberg’s Writing

“Mommy Writer” in Della Donna
“A Galloping Mommy Writer: Putting the Pieces Into Perspective” in Parenting Express
“Today I Put Soap in the Bathroom: Some Particulars of (Re) Writing” in Scribblers on the Roof

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For lots more, visit Hannah Greenberg here at her website.

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About the Author

KJ Hannah Greenberg is usually too busy parenting her teenage sons and daughters to contemplate her navel. If she had five extra minutes, she would bake quinoa pie and feed it to her imaginary hedgehogs. Meanwhile, she steals time by sleeping a little less and laughing a little more. On rare, alternate Tuesdays, she and her hedgies fly the galaxy in search of gelatinous monsters and assistant bank managers. Sometimes, they even catch a few.

Hannah’s views are informed by her experiences. She’s functioned as a fiction writer, essayist, and poet, even snagging a Pushcart Prize nomination; as a science writer and editor for the likes of the Weizmann Institute of Science and The University of Pittsburgh’s Medical Center; as a blogger and columnist, writing serial work for venues such as The Jerusalem Post and Type-A Mom; as a rhetoric professor, receiving National Endowment for the Humanities monies and National Communication Association honors; as a literary critic for publications including Bewildering Stories and Tangent; as a judge for Notes and Grace Notes; as a referee for Communication Quarterly; and, most importantly, as a wife, a mom and a friend.

Hannah’s lightly pert and somewhat exuberant, layered writing can be found in North American, in European, in Oceanic, in Middle Eastern, and in Far Eastern venues, as well as under select budgies. Her creative efforts are devoted to lovers of slipstream fiction, to second chair oboe players, and to mothers who despair of finding the bottom of Mt. Laundry. Hannah’s newest book, Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting, comprised of forty-one essays about the serious and the silly sides of caring for, loving and guiding offspring is now available at French Creek Press.