What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?

At my table, Kentucky Book Festival visitors will find The Psilocybin Handbook for Women: How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health. The book is a resource for everyone, although it features information specific to those assigned female at birth—because psychedelics may have different effects and applications across the sexes.

Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?

I invite anyone to stop by who is interested in magic mushrooms or psychedelics in general, either for themselves or someone else, and who wants to learn about what happens in the brain and body during a psychedelic journey and about the research, specific applications, and differences regarding psilocybin and women’s health.

Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?

Fun fact: women report more frequent use of some psychedelics than men. And people assigned female at birth deserve evidence-based information on how psychedelics uniquely affect them.

Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival?

This is my first time participating in the Kentucky Book Festival I look forward to meeting people who want to know more about psilocybin and who care about the disparities in women’s health.

Jennifer Chesak is an award-winning freelance science and medical journalist, editor, and fact-checker based in Nashville, TN. The Psilocybin Handbook for Women is a resource for everyone, although it features information specific to those assigned female at birth, because psychedelics may have different effects and applications across the sexes.