“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their writing overall. Today’s Inspirations & Influences guest is Kelly Jensen – a Book Riot editor and Author/Editor of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Here We Are: When You Trust Teenagers Are Incredible Humans, Amazing Things Happen I wrote my own degree in college, focusing on creative writing and on adolescent development. My interests laid right in that intersection, but at the time, I had no idea how those two topics I was passionate about might work together. I just knew at the time it meant I could take a lot of courses with a heavy writing focus and a lot of courses that explored teenagers as a social/historical concept and the developing teen mind. To graduate, both the psychology focus and the English focus required a capstone project. I explored the idea of loneliness and depression and the gender differences in those experiences when young people go off to college (individuals who identify as female, in fact, experience […]