Rachel Kessler

From the Archive: “Are You There, Judy Blume? It’s Me, Rachel”, by Rachel Kessler

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Rachel

This essay was commissioned by SAL on the occasion of our program featuring Judy Blume in the 2014/15 Literary Arts Series, on June 11, 2015. It was written by WITS Writer-in-Residence Rachel Kessl…

Source: From the Archive: “Are You There, Judy Blume? It’s Me, Rachel”, by Rachel Kessler

Are You There, Judy Blume? It’s Me, Rachel

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Rachel

Seattle Arts & Lectures commissioned me to write this essay about Judy Blume’s influence on me as a writer and pubeteer. Her characters were my “secret pen pals from that rough patch of adolescence.”