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​Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. Her most recent book, Thin Skin, was a Time, Publishers Weekly, and New York Public Library best book of 2023. Alexander Chee called it “iconoclastic, electric, illuminating … A book to keep for a long time.” Terry Tempest Williams said it's “an important and visionary book." Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Lambda Literary Award, among other honors.

​Shapland's essays have appeared in New England Review, the New York Times, Guernica, and Tin House, and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the Rabkin Foundation Award. Her research and writing have been supported by residencies at Aspen Words, Ucross, VCCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and by fellowships from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Howard Foundation. 

She works as an archivist for a visual artist.

A smattering of interviews:​

Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” The Nation
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On Rebecca, Frog and Toad, and Queer Women in Fiction and Film Bookmarks

Sentence by Sentence: Jo Ann Beard on how she found the deep imaginative spaces of her new essay collection Bookforum

​Cracking the Codes: Jenn Shapland with Jeannie Vanasco BOMB Magazine

Queering the Archive Bookforum

Other People podcast with Brad Listi 

Kirkus Reviews, "Jenn Shapland Claims Carson McCullers as a Queer Writer," interview with Linda Simon