Jeannine Atkins
@jeannineatkins.bsky.social
Author of Knocking on Windows: A Memoir, Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, all from Atheneum/S & S, Rep: @saracrowelit.bsky.social
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#KidLitChat Hmmm. I think I'd say "Keep writing that poetry. You're gaining skills you're going to find so useful later on."
and
"You are going to have room to breathe and create. Contrary to what you've been told, you can create space in your adult life. And it's healthy to do that."
and
"You are going to have room to breathe and create. Contrary to what you've been told, you can create space in your adult life. And it's healthy to do that."
TOPIC: What professional or creative advice do you wish you could pass on to your younger self? (And would your younger self listen?!?) #kidlitchat
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
#KidLitChat Hmmm. I think I'd say "Keep writing that poetry. You're gaining skills you're going to find so useful later on."
and
"You are going to have room to breathe and create. Contrary to what you've been told, you can create space in your adult life. And it's healthy to do that."
and
"You are going to have room to breathe and create. Contrary to what you've been told, you can create space in your adult life. And it's healthy to do that."
“I think as a young poet I looked for what Keats called ‘a fine excess,’ but as an old poet I look for spareness and rigor and a world of compassion.” –Stanley Kunitz
August 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“I think as a young poet I looked for what Keats called ‘a fine excess,’ but as an old poet I look for spareness and rigor and a world of compassion.” –Stanley Kunitz
"She asks the profound question, “Can I listen to all the girls I’ve ever been?” I cry when I read how she ends this section: “The girls I blamed are the girls who saved me, too.” -- Amanda MacGregor, thank you! ❤️
Book Review: Knocking on Windows: A Memoir by Jeannine Atkins
A powerful look at trauma, bravery, and survival.
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A powerful look at trauma, bravery, and survival.
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Book Review: Knocking on Windows: A Memoir by Jeannine Atkins
The power of words can help save us---reading them, writing them, feeling them. They can help us find our way back to ourselves when it seems like everything was taken. A powerful look at trauma, brav...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"She asks the profound question, “Can I listen to all the girls I’ve ever been?” I cry when I read how she ends this section: “The girls I blamed are the girls who saved me, too.” -- Amanda MacGregor, thank you! ❤️
“The book I was meant to write may be the book I long avoided writing. I didn’t want to feel vulnerable and messy, but maybe someone could see a bit of herself in what I was long counseled to hide. We might all be less lonely.”
Join YABC for an #authorchat with Jeannine Atkins about #Yalit #newrelease KNOCKING ON WINDOWS, plus #entertowin a #freecopy in our #giveaway!
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August 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“The book I was meant to write may be the book I long avoided writing. I didn’t want to feel vulnerable and messy, but maybe someone could see a bit of herself in what I was long counseled to hide. We might all be less lonely.”
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The Art of Returning, a guest post by Jeannine Atkins
I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways.
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I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways.
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The Art of Returning, a guest post by Jeannine Atkins
I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways.
teenlibrariantoolbox.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Art of Returning, a guest post by Jeannine Atkins
I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways.
teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/08/04/t... @tltkaren.bsky.social @jeannineatkins.bsky.social
I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways.
teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/08/04/t... @tltkaren.bsky.social @jeannineatkins.bsky.social
Answering questions about how I came to write this memoir, its impact on me and how I hope it affects readers, the significance of the title, and more.
Q&A with Jeannine Atkins about her new YA memoir in verse, KNOCKING ON WINDOWS.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Answering questions about how I came to write this memoir, its impact on me and how I hope it affects readers, the significance of the title, and more.
Thank you, Amanda, for always recognizing a book is more than its cover. And thanks to all at Atheneum Books and @simonteen.bsky.social for putting a poem instead of blurbs on the back cover. ❤️
Book mail: KNOCKING ON WINDOWS by Jeannine Atkins. Thanks, Simon Teen!
July 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thank you, Amanda, for always recognizing a book is more than its cover. And thanks to all at Atheneum Books and @simonteen.bsky.social for putting a poem instead of blurbs on the back cover. ❤️
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★ “With empowering eloquence,” Jeannine Atkins “reflects on suffering, survival, and sexism” in her “searing” YA memoir KNOCKING ON WINDOWS
Knocking on Windows by Jeannine Atkins
In this lucid, accessible verse memoir, Atkins (Green Promises) chronicles her experiences as a college freshman healing from th...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
★ “With empowering eloquence,” Jeannine Atkins “reflects on suffering, survival, and sexism” in her “searing” YA memoir KNOCKING ON WINDOWS
Thank you, Stephanie for sharing, and Publishers Weekly for the star and special words!
I've admired @jeannineatkins.bsky.social 's writing for years, and this is a great review of her upcoming memoir, which looks really powerful: www.publishersweekly.com/9781665977548
Knocking on Windows by Jeannine Atkins
In this lucid, accessible verse memoir, Atkins (Green Promises) chronicles her experiences as a college freshman healing from th...
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May 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thank you, Stephanie for sharing, and Publishers Weekly for the star and special words!
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A *massive* roundup of the 2025 YA novels in verse that have or will hit shelves this year: bookriot.com/2025-ya-vers...
Celebrate Poetry With These 2025 YA Verse Novels
2025 is an incredible year for YA verse novels. Dive into over a dozen new releases hitting shelves this year written partially or fully in poetry.
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April 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A *massive* roundup of the 2025 YA novels in verse that have or will hit shelves this year: bookriot.com/2025-ya-vers...
Than you for reading! Science always happens in a social/political context.
GREEN PROMISES by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social is such an inspiring novel in verse honoring the lives of two pioneering scientists--with insightful content about the social issues of the time. Lovely cover art by Victoria Assanelli.
📚👍 #amreading #kidlit
📚👍 #amreading #kidlit
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Than you for reading! Science always happens in a social/political context.
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So sad to hear of the loss of the beautiful talent that was Roberta Flack.
“The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage
“The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage
February 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
So sad to hear of the loss of the beautiful talent that was Roberta Flack.
“The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage
“The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage
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History could not be more relevant these days, so coming up next week, Nadine Pinede and I are offering a two-part mini on THE POWER OF HISTORICAL VERSE NOVELS with @highlightsfound.bsky.social. We would love for people to join us! #versenovels #poetry #history #yalit #mglit #kidlit
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
History could not be more relevant these days, so coming up next week, Nadine Pinede and I are offering a two-part mini on THE POWER OF HISTORICAL VERSE NOVELS with @highlightsfound.bsky.social. We would love for people to join us! #versenovels #poetry #history #yalit #mglit #kidlit
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Celebrating #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience with this NEW novel in verse by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social !
Cannot wait to dive in!
Jeannine's words are always 'just right' to inspire and transport me to another time, another life, another amazing woman.
#kidlit #STEM #womeninscience
Cannot wait to dive in!
Jeannine's words are always 'just right' to inspire and transport me to another time, another life, another amazing woman.
#kidlit #STEM #womeninscience
February 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Celebrating #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience with this NEW novel in verse by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social !
Cannot wait to dive in!
Jeannine's words are always 'just right' to inspire and transport me to another time, another life, another amazing woman.
#kidlit #STEM #womeninscience
Cannot wait to dive in!
Jeannine's words are always 'just right' to inspire and transport me to another time, another life, another amazing woman.
#kidlit #STEM #womeninscience
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KNOCKING ON WINDOWS, by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social, is a beautifully rendered memoir in verse that brought me to tears and to rage and, ultimately, to a fierce pride in women everywhere (and every when) who lose their voices and, with help from people real and imagined, find them again. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
February 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
KNOCKING ON WINDOWS, by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social, is a beautifully rendered memoir in verse that brought me to tears and to rage and, ultimately, to a fierce pride in women everywhere (and every when) who lose their voices and, with help from people real and imagined, find them again. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Eavan Boland writes of being young and wanting to hear the narrative of a woman and poet “who had made the life meet the work and had set it down: the difficulties and rewards, the senses of lack. I remember thinking that it need not be perfect or important. Just there; just available.”
January 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Eavan Boland writes of being young and wanting to hear the narrative of a woman and poet “who had made the life meet the work and had set it down: the difficulties and rewards, the senses of lack. I remember thinking that it need not be perfect or important. Just there; just available.”
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Book Review: All the Love Under the Vast Sky edited by Kip Wilson
A great read about love of all kinds around the world and throughout time. Definitely check it out!
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A great read about love of all kinds around the world and throughout time. Definitely check it out!
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Book Review: All the Love Under the Vast Sky edited by Kip Wilson
It's the rare anthology where every story feels strong, and this one certainly achieves that. A great read about love of all kinds around the world and throughout time. Definitely check it out!
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January 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Book Review: All the Love Under the Vast Sky edited by Kip Wilson
A great read about love of all kinds around the world and throughout time. Definitely check it out!
teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/01/14/b... @tltkaren.bsky.social
A great read about love of all kinds around the world and throughout time. Definitely check it out!
teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/01/14/b... @tltkaren.bsky.social
“The shhh-shhh-shhh of the lead on the page and the satisfying scritch of crossing out feels like I’m making something – while the click of the keyboard sounds like high heels walking in circles to nowhere in particular.” – Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social @pw.org
January 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“The shhh-shhh-shhh of the lead on the page and the satisfying scritch of crossing out feels like I’m making something – while the click of the keyboard sounds like high heels walking in circles to nowhere in particular.” – Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social @pw.org
Thank you, Christiana!
I cannot wait to read this History-in-Verse by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social! ❤️ Her #STEM verse novels always pull me in!
December 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Thank you, Christiana!
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Kelly Link captures the magic of going outside to write under the moonlight “as part of a coven of writers” and opening a door to “nighttime logic”—that uncanny, slant space where storytelling operates outside of “everyday rules and everyday order.” buff.ly/4fn5Ntl
December 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Kelly Link captures the magic of going outside to write under the moonlight “as part of a coven of writers” and opening a door to “nighttime logic”—that uncanny, slant space where storytelling operates outside of “everyday rules and everyday order.” buff.ly/4fn5Ntl
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Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your favorite history lover, poetry lover, or aspiring verse novelist?
Register them for this upcoming mini-workshop with Nadine Pinede and me, and we will help them jump start their project!
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/the...
Register them for this upcoming mini-workshop with Nadine Pinede and me, and we will help them jump start their project!
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/the...
The Power of Historical Novels in Verse: A Two-Part Mini on Using Poetry and History to Inspire - Highlights Foundation
The historical novel in verse allows for an examination of history in an emotionally charged form. Join authors Nadine Pinede and Kip Wilson to discover ways to weave history into the structure of a v...
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December 11, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your favorite history lover, poetry lover, or aspiring verse novelist?
Register them for this upcoming mini-workshop with Nadine Pinede and me, and we will help them jump start their project!
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/the...
Register them for this upcoming mini-workshop with Nadine Pinede and me, and we will help them jump start their project!
www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/the...
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I created this starter pack for #VerseNovel authors yesterday while waiting in car line to pick up my daughter.
If you see authors who are here who I’ve missed, could you tag them so I can add them? ❤️
go.bsky.app/HJUWbCY
If you see authors who are here who I’ve missed, could you tag them so I can add them? ❤️
go.bsky.app/HJUWbCY
November 13, 2024 at 1:28 PM
I created this starter pack for #VerseNovel authors yesterday while waiting in car line to pick up my daughter.
If you see authors who are here who I’ve missed, could you tag them so I can add them? ❤️
go.bsky.app/HJUWbCY
If you see authors who are here who I’ve missed, could you tag them so I can add them? ❤️
go.bsky.app/HJUWbCY
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Looking for hope in harsh times? (I know I am, oof.) Please come to our panel at #NCTE24 and learn how historical verse novels can help. And please find me to say hello!
November 12, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Looking for hope in harsh times? (I know I am, oof.) Please come to our panel at #NCTE24 and learn how historical verse novels can help. And please find me to say hello!