Jessica Anya Blau: SHOPGIRLS (with Elizabeth Hazen)

Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane, returns to the Ivy to celebrate her new release, Shopgirls! This novel of found family, growing up, and the best and worst of the 1980s revolves around San Francisco's most exclusive department store, I. Magnin. Self-discovery, questions of family, and outrageous fashion-- this book has it all with Jessica Anya Blau's quintessential intoxicating style.

The author will be join in conversation by poet, essayist (and Ivy bookseller!) Elizabeth Hazen. Join us on the patio-- we can't wait to see you there.

Click here to order SHOPGIRLS!

Jessica Anya Blau’s novels have been featured on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and NPR, and in Cosmo, Vanity Fair, Bust, Time Out, Oprah Summer Reads, Oprah Daily, and other national publications. Jessica’s books have been translated into many languages and have been optioned for film and television. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. Jessica sometimes works as a screenwriter, a ghost writer, and has taught writing at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and The Fashion Institute of Technology. Jessica grew up in Southern California and now lives in New York City.

Elizabeth Hazen is a poet and essayist. After teaching for twenty years, she changed tracks and now works at an independent bookstore. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Epoch, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has published two collections of poetry, Chaos Theories (2016) and Girls Like Us (2020). Her third collection, The Sky Will Hold, is forthcoming in March 2026. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

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