Nancy Rommelmann writes features, book reviews and essays for the Wall Street Journal, the LA Weekly, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.Recent books include the novel THE BAD MOTHER (2011). THE QUEENS OF MONTAGUE STREET (2012), a digital memoir of growing up in...
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Nancy Rommelmann writes features, book reviews and essays for the Wall Street Journal, the LA Weekly, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.Recent books include the novel THE BAD MOTHER (2011). THE QUEENS OF MONTAGUE STREET (2012), a digital memoir of growing up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1970s, was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine, and named as a Top Ten Longreads of 2012. The story collection TRANSPORTATION was released in 2013. DESTINATION GACY, an e-book about Rommelmann's visit and interview with serial killer John Wayne Gacy, published in 2014. Rommelmann worked as a story consultant and appears in the documentary THE CULT OF JT LEROY, which premiered at the New York DOC festival in November 2014.She recently completed the narrative nonfiction book TO THE BRIDGE, the story of Amanda Stott-Smith, who in 2009 dropped her two young children from a bridge in Portland, Oregon.She is based in Portland. More at nancyrommelmann.com
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