Jennifer Boylan in Residence
Kilachand Honors College is excited to welcome author Jennifer Finney Boylan as their spring 2025 Person-in-Residence. Jenny Boylan is the author of 19 books, President of PEN America, and the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.
This appearance is sponsored by the Boston University Kilachand Honors College, the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff, the LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center, and the Howard Thurman Center
Browse the drop-down boxes below to learn more about each event.
CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
Conversation and Breakfast with Jennifer Finney Boylan
Learn more about Jennifer Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of 19 books, including MAD HONEY (co-authored with Jodi Picoult) and SHE’S NOT THERE (the first bestselling work by a trans American). She is Anna Quindlen Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. For many years she was contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, as well as the national co-chair of GLAAD; at present she is President of PEN America. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, LitHub, and elsewhere. Her latest book, CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us is about the difference between men and women, as she has lived it, as well as the difference between coming out as trans in 2000, and now. In 2022-23 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University; this spring she is Scholar in Residence at UC Santa Cruz. She lives in Maine with her wife, Deirdre.