Karen Mack (right), a former attorney, is a Golden Globe award winning film and television producer.  She is a cum laude graduate of UCLA with a BA in Political Science and a Juris Doctorate from the UCLA School of Law.



Jennifer Kaufman (left) is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and a two time winner of the national Penney-Missouri Journalism Award. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University School of Journalism.

They both reside in Los Angeles and Literacy and Longing is their first novel.
 
 


Get the scoop on how and why Karen and Jennifer wrote Literacy and Longing, what their influences were, Dora really is, and what it’s like to be part of a collaborative writing project.
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