Photo by Brad Trone 2022
If you need a headshot, here's a nice one my friend Brad took for me. To see more of his photos, visit his website. |
Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, her genre-bending first book, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Lambda Literary Award, among other honors. Her most recent book, Thin Skin, was a Time, Publishers Weekly, and New York Public Library best book of 2023. 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, High Desert Test Sites, 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
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