Jen Soriano
Author. Scholar. Performer.
Welcome to the online home of Jen Soriano, award-winning author, independent scholar and multi-disciplinary performer. Jen is known for her innovative creative non-fiction which has earned her the Memoir Prize for Books and the Housatonic Book Award, as well as prizes from The Center for Women Writers, The American Book Fest, and Fugue Literary Journal.
Jen is also a narrative strategist and a leader in movements for racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. She has strengthened the narrative power of organizations from a local to international scale, and has helped build social justice institutions including MediaJustice and ReFrame. She brings this experience together with her literary work and her training as a musician to generate moving art both on stage and on the page.
NERVOUS: Essays on Heritage and Healing is available at bookstores and libraries near you!
NEW: DISCUSSION GUIDE AVAILABLE HERE
This book started as a personal journey of trying to understand why my body held so much pain and sadness.
It became an epic ride through Philippine history, personal history, the silenced history of American colonization, and exciting developments in the social neuroscience of trauma.
The result is a memoir in 14 essays that shows how our nervous systems carry ancestral lessons from the past, and how our nervous systems also carry the key to transforming society toward a trauma-wise future.
I offer Nervous as a reminder that we are not alone. As a testament to the power of facing history and flowing toward embodied connection. As a love letter to bodies survived, and a vision of freedom through interdependence.
Get in touch.
Speaking Agent: Jean Caiani, SpeakOut jean@speakoutnow.org
Literary Agent: Samantha Shea, Georges Borchardt, Inc. samantha@gbagency.com
