Featured Mentor: Jason tougaw

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Jason Tougaw! Jason is the author of a memoir The One You Get, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience (Yale UP), and Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel. He is co-editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremeties: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. He writes a regular column for Psychology Today, and he hosts a weekly radio show on WJFF Radio Catskill. He is co-founder of The Queens Podcast Lab, where he hosts QC POD. He is currently finishing a novel, Summer Isn’t and is working on a playful, critical, and sometimes fantastic book entitled Dear Marshall—What Eminem Means. He teaches creative writing, podcasting, and literature at Queens College, CUNY. Raised in Southern California, now he splits his time between the Catskills and New York City.

Jason spoke about his excitement for the mentorship program, “I love the surprise of opening up a piece of writing, not knowing what I’ll find. There’s a person in every piece of writing, reflected in its forms and themes. I enjoy helping writers hone their work and realize their aspirations. ”

What’s the last book that Jason couldn’t put down? Hanif Abdurraqib’s Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest. 

Click here to sign up for a mentorship from Jason!

Click here to purchase Jason’s intelligent and moving memoir, The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism!