An Evening with Author Jessica Danger! In Conversation with Carroll Beauvais
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Join us as we host author Jessica Danger who will celebrating the recent release of her memoir, No Heroic Measures. No Heroic Measures is a powerful story of reckoning, redemption, and the enduring complexities of family and love. Jessica will be joined in conversation by local author and poet Carroll Beauvais.
About Jessica Danger
Jessica Danger is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanguard University, the Director of Education at Dead Reckoning Collective, and Joshua Tree Writers Retreat Co-Founder. She holds an MFA from Bennington College, where she was also awarded the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship in 2025. She was nominated for the Lucy Grealy Nonfiction Prize, a finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize, and also for the 2024 Literary Awards.
About Carroll Beauvais
Carroll Beavais is a writer and a professor and lecturer at Boston University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, Wisconsin Review, Delta Poetry Review, NELLE, and elsewhere. Her first book, Preverbal, is a finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollack Poetry Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press and a semi-finalist for Alice James Books’ Beatrice Hawley Prize. She holds a MFA from Syracuse University and her writing has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is currently working on a researched memoir about healthcare.
About Jessica Danger
Jessica Danger is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanguard University, the Director of Education at Dead Reckoning Collective, and Joshua Tree Writers Retreat Co-Founder. She holds an MFA from Bennington College, where she was also awarded the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship in 2025. She was nominated for the Lucy Grealy Nonfiction Prize, a finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize, and also for the 2024 Literary Awards.
About Carroll Beauvais
Carroll Beavais is a writer and a professor and lecturer at Boston University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, Wisconsin Review, Delta Poetry Review, NELLE, and elsewhere. Her first book, Preverbal, is a finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollack Poetry Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press and a semi-finalist for Alice James Books’ Beatrice Hawley Prize. She holds a MFA from Syracuse University and her writing has received support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is currently working on a researched memoir about healthcare.
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