Jennifer J Brown
@jjunebrown
#Author, #publichealth advocate, #genetics PhD. Creatively driven & scientifically inspired, Mom of 2 with #PKU. Latest book: When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes
Loved the NYC Poetry Festival on Sunday - theme of a modern #Odyssey - with an inspiring reading by gifted #poet Hanif Abdurraqib in person! Uplifting to be with so many free spirits expressing ourselves. Grateful to share my poetry books there. #Writingcommunity #Booksky #Gratitude #Poetry #poems
Congrats to @matthewzachary.bsky.social on his inspiring new book "We the Patients", a manifesto for change! I just finished it, and highly recommend studying his ideas to empower all of us when we're seen as "patients". Link: www.amazon.com/Patients-Und... #Booksky #writingcommunity #PublicHealth
NYC Poetry Festival is coming up! I'll be there with my books, Comorbidity - Expressions of Love, & Natural Supernatural Love. Vendor list of authors here: www.newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/vendors Hope to see you if you're in NYC for the event! #Booksky #Pofest #Poetry #writingcommunity #NYCevents
Light a candle this quiet evening to read by Watch the shadows cling to the wall as people have done evenings in ages past Lean against the bookcase, imagine each volume as a person Take one from the shelf tonight to leaf through captured thoughts of lives refusing to end #NationalPoetryMonth
🧬Remembering a quote from advice Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock gave me while she was my mentor, during my genetics graduate training at Cold Spring Harbor, "Never dumb down, Jennifer." #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #SciComm #WomeninSTEM
Excited to present "Rare Disease in the US Today: Real Lived Experiences" at 6PM ET today, with COSE ~ Join us live for this online event! True stories of superhero players in rare disease advocacy, movies, books + more. #RareDiseaseDay #Genetics #MedSky #RareDisease #NarrativeMedicine #PKU #Momsky
10 new shale well permits in PA last week... Push back with education: "Stream & Shale Story Coloring Book" my drawings + story of a Citizen's Tour in #fracking country, organized by Brooklyn for Peace. Read Aloud + color, for children of all ages. tinyurl.com/4597233u #booksky #SciComm #wildlifeart
"Stream & Shale Story Coloring Book" with my drawings, story of a Citizen's Tour of fracking country in Pennsylvania, + inspiring quotes by environmentalists, 2nd edition, is now up today in print, for children of all ages: www.amazon.com/Stream-Shale... #booksky #SciComm #wildlifeart #coloringbooks
Good day to be inside reading, at -7 F real feel in NYC today, #reading Rita Charon's book on storytelling in medicine. As relevant to me as a writer now, as it was 20 yrs ago when 1st published. This gem from my daughter, who's in the #NarrativeMedicine Columbia program this year. #SciComm #MedEd
4 novellas in my new, 2nd edition of "The Doctor's Dreams" stories explore scientists' + doctors' inner lives faced with sudden change + uncertainty. Now also distributed at Apple Books starting this week: books.apple.com/us/book/the-... #booksky #readersky #fiction #storytelling
1 yr ago this 8 yr old husky was on the "at risk" list at an NYC animal shelter, meaning might not be adopted but end her life there. Now, in her forever home, 1 of ~100 animals I helped place in homes in 2025 working as adoption counselor. My next book will be on Gotham's homeless animals... #books
"Get home safe; they always say this in the City, not knowing if you do have a home..." in a new short story up at my author journal online today. For Tom: Not Home for the Holidays jjbrownauthor.com/for-tom-not-... #writingcommunity #shortstory #NYC #booksky #readersky #newfiction
A book reading + discussion of certain rare genes which allowed survival of epic catastrophic conditions in the past... a positive spin on #raredisease ... www.youtube.com/live/QAIXPuF... From "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes and Genes", my mom #memoir published this year. #Booksky #Momsky #genetics
Happy Halloween! Be safe... I'm heading to our local library for Edgar Allan Poe stories. Watched "The Fall of the House of Usher" on Nflx last PM, so Poe. www.imdb.com/title/tt1556... If you've ever worked in pharma, as I have, it may twist a nerve or two. #Halloween #Fiction #EdgarAllanPoe
Grateful to stand with wonderful people in the "rare" community at NYC's "Lifting the Limits" NPKUA benefit last night with my daughter Lillian, @lillianisabella.com, a #PKUAdvocate. A huge limit right now is access to care. #PKU #Raredisease #LTLFORPKU #phenylketonuria #LiftingtheLimits #healthcare
Storytelling never dies and can't be killed.... will be reading this memoir tomorrow like so many others will be. A story to be heard. Here's the link to the Bookshop site that supports local indie book sellers: bookshop.org/p/books/unti... #memoir #booksky #VirginiaGiuffre
📚"Smartly plotted set of shorts reflecting on 'death' and how it's an inescapable part of life....short, sharp, snappy with good pacing and strong character development" - Wishing Shelf, UK. Gratitude for the editorial review of my 2nd Ed "Death & the Dream" stories! www.amazon.com/Death-Dream-...
We start with 🧬, healthcare gaps + advocacy in our @matthewzachary.bsky.social interview, "Genes of Wrath," but end with a (true) nerdy #horror story. 🎧 His inspiring series, "Out of Patients" verifies truth is stranger than fiction + we have so much to fix! www.outofpatients.com/the-genes-of...
Why we need to support the Digital Equity Act ~ we all need internet access, including those of us who are elderly, vets, people with disabilities... story from KFF kffhealthnews.org/news/article... #healthcare #health
Book signing at Brooklyn Book Festival in NY, nearly everyone had a story to share as they stopped by for my memoir "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes"... Sharing our journey is my activism. #booksky #scicomm #books #raredisease #pku #phenylketonuria #newbornscreening #publichealth
Excited about being at Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, the City's largest free book fair! I'll have a table as an indie author / publisher with my newest book "When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes" + more 2nd editions. See you there? @bkbookfest.bsky.social #writerscommunity #books #scicomm
Grateful to editor Nicola Miller for her review of my book in "Rare Revolution Magazine," latest edition! Here's a link to the nonprofit's hub, + magazine with her #bookreview: rarerevolutionmagazine.com with great resources, news + personal stories on #raredisease and #patientadvocacy #booksky
Read Kurt Vonnegut’s 1st novel, Player Piano last night ~ amazed, so relevant today #LaborDay (publ 1952). Machines replacing workers was the tragedy, echo to being displaced by AI now. Anti McCarthy focus burns, with job loss + witch hunting of US scientists + liberals now. #amreading #booksky #AI
🎉"The Doctor's Dreams" has come out today in 2nd edition! My 4 novellas (2 added) in this revised edition explore inner lives of scientists & docs when faced with sudden change, uncertainty & deaths. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP9GH568/ #booklovers #writingcommunity #writesky #books #booknews #booksky
Where can you go, spend no money at all, yet return with a great treasure? Feeling excited about my haul from the Queens Public Library... Sharing a reflection on a time the local library saved me: jjbrownauthor.com/public-libra... #libraries #booksky #memoir #gratitude #writingcommunity #amreading
For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven. 🐾 Happy International Dog Day! With my daughter's adopted Siberian Husky, Chloe here. Grateful for her rescue by ACCNY's Harlem shelter. She's some kind of angel. #InternationalDogDay #Gratitude #dogsky