Talia Carner's Bio
A BRIEF BIO
Talia Carner is formerly the publisher of Savvy Woman
magazine and a lecturer at international women’s economic forums.
Award-winning author of three published novels and numerous stories,
essays and articles, she is a committed supporter of global human
rights. She has spearheaded ground-breaking projects centered on the
subjects of female plight and women’s activism.
A
SUMMARY BIO
Talia
Carner was the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. A former
adjunct professor at Long Island University School of Management and a
marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she was also a volunteer
counselor and lecturer for the Small Business Administration and a
member of United States Information Agency (USIA) missions to Russia.
She participated at the 1995 International Women's Conference in
Beijing, where she sat on economic panels and helped develop political
campaigns for Indian and African women. Ms. Carner's first novel, PUPPET
CHILD, was listed in “The Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002” and
launched a nationwide legislation (The Protective Parent Reform Act)
that became the platform for two State Senatorial candidates. CHINA DOLL
made Amazon’s bestsellers list and served as the platform for Ms.
Carner's presentation at the U.N. in 2007 about infanticide in China—the
first ever in U.N. history. Over 50 of Carner’s award-winning short
stories and personal essays have appeared in The New York Times,
anthologies, and literary magazines. Her new novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN,
(HarperCollins, June 2011,) deals with the place of women in extremely
religious societies.
Ms. Carner is a board member of HBI, a
research center for Jewish women's life and culture at Brandeis
University, and an honorary board member of several
anti-domestic violence and child abuse intervention
organizations.
Her addictions include
chocolate, ballet, hats—and social justice.
Talia Carner and her husband Ron have 4 grown children and reside in
Manhattan and Bridgehampton, NY.
A FULL BIO
Before turning to
fiction writing, Talia Carner worked for Redbook magazine and
served as the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. An adjunct
professor of marketing at Long Island University and a marketing
consultant to Fortune 500 companies, she was a volunteer counselor and
lecturer for the Small Business Administration and a member of United
States Information Agency missions to Russia, teaching women
entrepreneurial skills. Carner’s activities in women’s organizations led
to her participation at the 1995 International Women’s Conference in
Beijing, where she learned of the atrocities of The Dying Rooms—the
Chinese orphanages where the documented death rate was 80%—and about the
U.S.’s courts betrayal of molested children. Helping African women to
develop a campaign against clitoridectomy, she was exposed to the plight
of women in societies that subjected millions of girls to this brutal
mutilation. Her education about violence against women continued when
she assisted Indian women in a campaign to end the burning of brides
over dowry disputes. A sought-after keynote lecturer at renowned
organizations, Carner speaks on both universal and culture-specific
issues facing today’s women across the globe.
As Carner researched
and wrote about the difficulties women face, she examined her own
family’s ten-generation history in Jerusalem. Because her grandmother,
with whom she had been close, had been blocked from developing her
extraordinary artistic talent, Carner set out to explore the religious
world in which obedient 12- to 14-year-olds were expected to hasten the
Messiah’s arrival and save the world Jewry by procreating. Her novel
JERUSALEM MAIDEN (HarperCollins, June 2011,) depicts a woman’s struggle
for self-expression against her society’s religious dictates.
In the early 1980s,
while at Redbook magazine, Carner was the first to define the
characteristics of female baby-boomers as having a later marriage-age
and being more educated, career-oriented, and health- and
civic-conscious than their older counterparts. While the publisher of
Savvy Woman magazine—then one of only four females to head a major
American magazine—she was the first to document the demographics of
female business owners. Launching her own marketing consulting firm to
Fortune 500 companies, Carner commissioned independent research and
challenged both public perceptions and the U.S. government’s definition
of entrepreneurship, a debate that ultimately established the White
House Oversight Committee and brought changes to the way the Office of
Labor Statistics gathered and analyzed data about husband-wife business
ownership.
In 1993, on Carner’s
second U.S. Information Agency (USIA) mission to Russia, she was caught
in the uprising of the parliament against then-president Boris Yeltsin.
Her report to the USIA about her escape was the seed for her first
(unpublished) novel and the start of her fiction-writing career.
Carner’s first
published novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in BookBrowse.com’s “Top 10
Favorite First Novels 2002” and won her an Outstanding Author Award
(BookReviewCafe.com.) The novel launched The Protective Parent Reform
Act, a law now passed in several stares and under consideration in many
others, and has become the platform of two State Senatorial candidates.
Her second novel, CHINA DOLL, was the platform for her 2007 presentation
at the U.N. about infanticide in China—the first in U.N. history.
In addition to
published articles on issues of family court, infanticide in China, and
women’s plights in developing societies, Carner’s award-winning personal
essays have appeared in The New York Times, Chocolate for Women, Cup
of Comfort and Chicken Soup anthologies, as well as The
Best Jewish Writing 2003. Her short stories have been published in
literary magazines such as Midstream, Lynx Eye, River Sedge, Moxie,
Lilith, Rosebud, Confrontation, North Atlantic Review, Litro, and
Midwest Literary Magazine. An excerpt from JERUSALEM MAIDEN is
included in The Best New Writing 2011 as the “Editor’s Choice
Award” and was nominated to the prestigious Pushcart Prize. The
book-length novel JERUSALEM MAIDEN won the Forward National Literature
Award in the “historical fiction” category.
A 7th generation Sabra
born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ms. Carner served in the Israel Defense Force
(IDF.) She received a B.A. degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in
Psychology and Sociology and a Master's degree in Economics from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Talia Carner is a board member of Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, (HBI) the
Jewish women research center at Brandeis University. She is also an
honorary board member of several anti-domestic violence and child abuse
intervention organizations. She and her husband, Ron, have four grown
children. The couple lives in Bridgehampton, Long Island and in
Manhattan, New York.
Board Member:
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Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (Jewish women’s studies department at
Brandeis University)
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Jewish Women's Foundation of New York
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National Coalition For Family Justice, and other domestic violence
and family & law organizations.
Member:
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Authors' Guild
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International Women Writing Guild
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Women National Book Association
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Two-Bridges Writers
