Harriett’s Bookshop
Black-ownedBooks
Independent bookshop and writing space celebrating female writers, activists, and artists.
Harriett’s Bookshop
Black-owned, Books
Independent bookshop and writing space celebrating female writers, activists, and artists.
Founders
Locations
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19125 United StatesMission
Named for historical heroine Harriet Tubman, our mission celebrates women authors, women artists, and women activists.
About
For the last 10 years Jeannine A. Cook has worked as a trusted writer for several startups, corporations, non-profits, influencers, and most recently herself. In addition to a holding a master’s degree from The University of the Arts, Jeannine is also a Leeway Art & Transformation grantee and winner of the South Philly Review Difference Maker Award. Jeannine’s work has been recognized by several national and international news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Ebony, BET, Barcroft TV and Daily Mail. She is a proud educator and mother with 8 years of teaching creative writing in alternative schools and on city blocks.
She recently returned from Nairobi, Kenya and Birmingham, UK where she facilitated art and social change workshops with youth from 15 countries around the world. Jeannine writes about the complex intersections of motherhood, activism, and the arts. Her pieces are featured in several publications including Mothering Magazine, Girl God, Mahogany Baby, Good Mother Project, Printworks, Adelaide Magazine and midnight & indigo. Jeannine is currently producing an art installation of her writings deconstructed into paper art sculptures, collages, and calligrams called Conversations With Harriett.