2020
SARACIEA J.
FENNELL
FOUNDER
THE BRONX IS READING
HALL OF FAME
Saraciea J. Fennell has been serving as the founder of The Bronx is Reading—Bronx Book
Festival. She has also been a book publicist who has worked with many award-winning and
New York Times best-selling authors like Daniel José Older, Tui T. Sutherland, Peter Sís, Kass
Morgan, Chris Colfer, Deborah Wiles, Javaka Steptoe, and many more.
She has been passionate about books and has devoured anything sci-fi or fantasy-related in
books, TV, and movies. Fennell has sat on the steering committee for Latinx in Publishing as
well as on the Advisory Board of People of Color in Publishing. You can find her somewhere in
NYC boxing or practicing yoga in the next up and coming studio.
The Bronx Times listed her as one of 25 Influential Women of 2018, she was listed on the
Bitch Media 50 list for 2018, and was included among Remezcla’s 30 Latinxs who made
an impact in 2018 . Currently, she has been pursuing an MFA at Lesley University and has
studied under David Elliott, Jason Reynolds, A.J. Verdelle, and Tracey Baptiste. She has split
her time between the Bronx and Brooklyn, but will always rep the Bronx. Her forthcoming
anthology WILD TONGUES CAN’T BE TAMED will be published by Flatiron Books in fall 2021.
POWER WOMEN BRONX