Who is Jenny Shank?
A writer, reader, and proud representative of Jenkind, who lives for literature, art, music, nature, film, sports, and jokes. She’s the author of the story collection Mixed Company, which won the Colorado Book Award, and the novel The Ringer, which won the High Plains Book Award, and she teaches creative writing at the Mile High MFA and Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. She’s also been a journalist for a long time, covering mainly books, culture, and entertainment.
Her stories, essays, articles and book reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, High Country News, Poets & Writers, Dallas Morning News, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Toast, Barrelhouse, The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, Dear McSweeney's, and Love in the Time of Time’s Up. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and her mother.
Why subscribe?
Every month I publish The Tumbleweed, a newsletter about writing, creativity, art, and inspiration. I tell stories, share jokes, answer writing questions, recommend some good books to read, and list upcoming events for the writing community.
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Here are some other essays I’ve written to give you some idea of what you might find on The Tumbleweed:
“Lucia Berlin: My Mentor in Being an Outsider” for Poets & Writers
“I Met a Blind Priest at the Airport” for Washington Post
"Hockey Forever, or for as Long as it Lasts," for The Missouri Review
"How Did We Do?" for The Toast
“I’m Doing a Reverse Marie Kondo on My Life: The government shutdown is forcing me to pare back the things that give me joy,” for The Atlantic
The best way to support my work is to order my books, Mixed Company and The Ringer.
