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Hello! Thanks for visiting my website. If you're looking for a current bio, feel free to use this one I wrote in the third person:
Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and the Southern Book Prize, and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award. It was longlisted for the American Library Association Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence and the Reading the West Book Prize. Her most recent book, Thin Skin, was a Time, Publishers Weekly, and New York Public Library best book of 2023. Alexander Chee, the author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, called it “a wrenching, loving and trenchant examination of feminism, nuclear power, healthcare, queerness and American life unlike any I can think of, in essays that give lessons in pushing this form to the limit. The resulting collection is iconoclastic, electric, illuminating … A book to keep for a long time.” Terry Tempest Williams said it's “an important and visionary book." 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, Yaddo, Ucross, and Vermont Studio Center and by fellowships from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Howard Foundation. She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin and she works as an archivist for a visual artist. |
A smattering of interviews:
Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” The Nation
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
Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” The Nation
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