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Biography

Jenny Shank grew up in Denver, Colorado, and earned degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Colorado. Her short story collection "Mixed Company" won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and will be published by Texas Review Press in October 2021. Her novel "The Ringer" won the High Plains Book Award in fiction and was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Awards. Her stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Onion, Poets & Writers Magazine, Bust Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, The Toast, Barrelhouse, Dallas Morning News, High Country News, PBS MediaShift, The Rumpus, 5280, The Huffington Post, The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals (Vintage, 2012) and Dear McSweeney's: Twenty-Two Years of Letters from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (McSweeney's, 2021). One of her stories was listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in the Best American Essays, three of her stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and one received Special Mention in the 2018 Pushcart Prize anthology. Jenny Shank was the Denver/Boulder Editor of The Onion A.V. Club for six years, and for four years she was the Books & Writers Editor of New West, which was named "Best Literary Blog" in the Westword Best of Denver issue. She was a Mullin Scholar in writing at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She has taught creative writing at the University of Colorado, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Boulder Writing Studio, and she is on the faculty of the Mile High MFA at Regis University in Denver. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Content

Total articles 763

• Available on paid plans

  In ‘My Pisces Heart,’ a Black expatriate finds an imperfect community

  By Jenny Shank

  Apr. 09, 2025

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  Snow blankets the Gastonia area from a winter storm

  By Jenny Shank, Kristyn Holmes, Dare Nichol

  Feb. 20, 2025

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  The Beat Goes On at These Hotels That Embrace Music Culture

  By Jenny Shank

  Dec. 26, 2024

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